Chen Xiaoqing said in an interview that his crew didn't reveal their identity as a China crew when shooting, and the director should eat every dish in the film himself? . The four criteria for the selection of food in Tip of the Tongue are: "health", the stewed food is unhealthy, so it can't appear in the program, "truth" refers to the delicious and inheritance of the food itself, and it is not necessary to name the food with poems; "relatively daily", that is, most people can eat; And "problem solving"
Every episode of China on the Tip of the Tongue is not about food. Food is just the starting point. Look at China society through food. The whole film is shot by the director of diversity according to the established diversity theme, and then looking for the character stories that fit the theme.
When each diversity theme is established, the diversity director needs to go through three stages before shooting: the first stage is the "copywriting" stage, that is, the diversity director reads a lot of books, investigates and writes copywriting about the theme; The second stage is the "investigation" stage, which is to determine what needs to be filmed for food diversity. Chen Xiaoqing, the general director, thinks that the journey is also a process of obtaining food information, so in order to find the food that appears on the tip of the tongue, it is stipulated that diversity directors can't drive by themselves during the "inspection" period, but must take public transportation to "inspect" in order to facilitate continuous communication with people.
At the same time, in order to shoot some relatively daily food that more people can eat, the price of ingredients is limited. In the second season, Chen Xiaoqing instructed the director to shoot only the food below 50 yuan at that time; Finally, according to a single food, go to various places to shoot, and find suitable people in the shooting area to express this food and carry the stories of people in this area.