The Creator of the Second Dimension

Fried silkworm chrysalis, roasted pig eyes, sheep guns and sheep cannons, all kinds of dark ingredients that most audiences have never heard of have become the protagonists of the second episode of "A Bunch of Life".

Viewers who originally thought it was a gourmet documentary now have a new understanding of it.

Of course, there are always brave people who are willing to try, and soon, there are "tasting reports" on the food shown in the second episode on the Internet.

The live broadcast with pictures and texts is already considered crude, and many food broadcasters on Chuyin Video Network visited the folks one after another, and began to try food boldly.

[The young man ordered twenty skewers of roasted pig eyes, accompanied by pig whips, delicious to eat]

[The life of silkworms should be spent in this way, the king of big stomachs will try the roasted silkworm set meal]

【Take you into the most authentic live seafood roasting】

[The head chef teaches you the most authentic method of roasting lamb gun]

[This bamboo mouse is hungry after watching "A String of Life", the guy roasted it into a delicious skewer to relieve loneliness]

Waiting for the videos to spring up like mushrooms after rain, it made the life and food area popular again.

This kind of novelty-seeking shooting and editing is obviously influenced by the Internet style. Traditional documentaries will not shoot this kind of effect. Not only did the dark ingredients not persuade people to quit, but it made everyone more interested in this documentary.

When the third episode was aired, the number of simultaneous online viewers of the documentary had exceeded one million. The vegetarian dishes in the third episode were just like the adjustments when eating barbecue, allowing the audience who had experienced the baptism of dark ingredients in the second episode to breathe. That's exactly what the subtitle "Let's Get Veggie" means.

Jing Ping, Zhou Xiao, the documentary director of the national TV station, thinks that her daughter's appearance is a bit strange recently.

He is from the north, but he came to Jingping when he was in college. After graduation, he joined the national TV station and worked for decades. His daughter grew up in Jingping, and he has not been back to his hometown a few times.

Two days ago, my daughter who had just finished the college entrance examination and was enjoying the summer vacation suddenly asked mysteriously after eating.

"Dad, have you ever eaten roasted silkworm chrysalis?"

The daughter opened her eyes wide, quite curious.

"Roasted silkworm chrysalis? Why are you asking this?"

Zhou Xiao asked back, he remembered that when he was a child, he caught and roasted cicadas in the countryside. It was crispy and delicious, but he never ate it after studying. As for silkworm chrysalis, he remembered that there was such a tradition in his hometown, but he did not try it. Pass.

"I heard that this is our Northeast specialty barbecue."

The daughter explained, very sincerely.

"I don't know if it's special or not, but our hometown does have similar food, which is to skewer and roast silkworms without broken cocoons. Many old people like to eat it. Your father is timid and dare not eat it."

Zhou Xiao is usually busy with work and rarely has time to spend with his daughter. These few days just happened to be the time when the documentary he was in charge of shooting was completed, so there are only a few days when he does not have to travel back and forth. Therefore, he patiently explained the topics mentioned by his daughter. with.

"How about roasting moths directly, and roasting green silkworms?"

The daughter pursued the victory and continued to ask.

"Roasted moths? Can this be eaten? The green silkworm is the tussah silkworm, right? It's the one that eats the leaves of the oak tree. The green one is so big. Someone raised it in my hometown before. Can this be eaten?"

Zhou Xiao was incredulous, and then a little puzzled. Where did my daughter, who usually reads obediently, see such strange things?

"I heard that it is very delicious when baked."

The daughter said quite firmly.

"Where did you hear it, I don't know these things."

Zhou Xiao traced back to the source and turned his attention from the TV to his daughter.

"I watched what was said in the documentary."

"Documentary?"

Zhou Xiao came to his senses. He is a documentary shooter. He has never watched any documentary in his life. Didn't he remember any documentary that mentioned roasting moths?

"Yes, Dad, you usually shoot documentaries in Taiwan, do you also have to do those things yourself, such as filming and tasting food?"

the daughter asked.

"We must be very rigorous. After all, documentaries are not TV dramas. We must seek truth from facts. That's why your father ran around the country."

Zhou Xiao explained a sentence, and continued to ask.

"Which one of those documentaries you were talking about had roasted moths?"

"A String of Life, it's very popular on the Internet now."

The daughter answered naturally.

""A String of Life"? Which TV station? Why didn't I know there was such a documentary?"

Zhou Xiao felt that he had never heard of this movie, so he immediately became interested.

You know, Zhou Xiao used to worry a lot about getting her daughter to watch less TV animations and more knowledge-enhancing programs like documentaries, but her daughter always felt that those documentaries were too serious, too boring, and lack of interest.

Now there is actually a documentary that makes his daughter ask him in turn. Although roasting moths and silkworm chrysalis seems a bit strange, but after all, it did what Zhou Xiao couldn't do, so he was naturally very concerned.

"Dad, this documentary is not aired on the TV station, but on the Internet. I usually watch the Hatsune Video Network. You don't usually pay much attention to things on the Internet. You must not know."

The daughter told the truth.

"Hatsune Video Network?"

Zhou Xiao only knows that this is a website dedicated to broadcasting animation, and his department has little connection with the Internet, but he has heard it mentioned by other colleagues occasionally.

"show me?"

Hearing Zhou Xiao's words, her daughter's eyes lit up immediately, she came out of the room with the tablet, and said.

"Dad, there are three episodes of this documentary now, do you want to watch it from the beginning?"

"Then let's start from the beginning."

Zhou Xiao asked her daughter to press the play button, and the father and daughter watched it.

Not long after watching it, Zhou Xiao felt a wave of turmoil in his heart.

From the perspective of a professional, this documentary has many flaws in its shooting techniques and mirroring, but it is unique in its creativity.

In the past, there were proposals similar to food documentaries in the front desk, but there was a dispute about what to shoot. Some people wanted to shoot the four major cuisines, and some wanted to start from the cities. In the end, the entire topic selection became very empty, and no one could convince the other. In the past, everyone was not clear about the significance of the popular science education of photographing food, and in the end it was still nothing.

Now Zhou Xiao usually makes some history and nature documentaries, as well as architecture and intangible cultural heritage. These documentaries are high-end and atmospheric, but obviously not very close to the people.

But this "A String of Life" seems to be about barbecue, but it is actually about life. Through barbecue, the most popular diet, it reflects the daily life of the people in the market behind it, and it conveys some cultural beliefs. It is a true expression of emotion.

Watching the documentary, Zhou Xiao suddenly had an inspiration.

Since human feelings and culture can be reflected through barbecue, is there a similar story behind other foods, which can show the life and pursuit of Chinese people through food?

Historical documentaries show the long history of Chinese civilization by shooting cultural relics and telling the rise and fall of history. Natural documentaries show the idea of ​​harmonious coexistence between man and nature by shooting animals and presenting the reproduction of species.

So, can food documentaries also convey the humanistic stories behind this food and show the historical features of China?

The more Zhou Xiao thought about it, the more excited he became, and couldn't help standing up.

"Dad, what's the matter with you?"

The daughter was still immersed in the delicious barbecue. Although she had seen it once, she was still drooling greedily. Seeing her father standing up suddenly, she was a little confused.

"Where is the website where this documentary was filmed?"

Zhou Xiao asked, he thought he was going on a business trip.