China News Service, Beijing, August 18 (Reporter Ying Ni) The "Who Knows a Plate of Chinese Food - National Library Chinese Food Themed Documentary Collection" sponsored by the National Library was launched in Beijing on the 18th.
This documentary collection activity is themed "Chinese Food" and covers Chinese food cooking techniques and methods, the cultivation, acquisition and processing of ingredients, as well as knowledge, etiquette, folk customs and various social practices related to food preparation and enjoyment. The collection scope includes documentary audio-visual works created by television agencies at all levels across the country, online audio-visual platforms, colleges and universities, film and television companies, professional studios, and independent creators. They are divided into four categories: micro-documentary, short film, feature film, and series. The review will be conducted from five dimensions: theme, documentation, artistry, dissemination, and scarcity, and ultimately no more than 10 "collected works" and no more than 50 "preferred works" will be selected for inclusion in the National Library.
The collection activity starts from August 18th to October 18th. The National Library will invite experts in relevant fields to review the submitted works, and the review results will be announced in December. The creators of some of the collected works will be invited to participate in the "National Documentary Screening Season", and relevant films will be included in a subsequent series of communication and promotion activities.
The person in charge of the event said that this documentary collection activity will systematically sort out the image memory of Chinese food culture. By excavating and collecting documentary image works related to Chinese food culture, it will provide important documentary support for the inheritance and dissemination of Chinese food culture. It will also further expand the scope of resources and collection channels for intangible cultural heritage records. It is another important extension of the National Library’s documentary collection plan and fills the gap in the systematic collection of Chinese food-themed documentaries at the national level. In the next step, the National Library will continue to deepen the collection and service of audio-visual documents, continue to enrich the content dimensions and theme depth of the documentary collection, further expand the social participation and resource coverage of the intangible cultural heritage record archiving work, and inject new momentum into the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture.
It is understood that the National Library launched a documentary collection project in 2019 and has collected more than 300 documentaries so far. It has also relied on the National Documentary Documentary Screening Season and other activities for public welfare dissemination, and has achieved good social response. In the field of intangible cultural heritage records, the National Library has been entrusted by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism since 2015 to undertake the related tasks of recording representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage. Over the past ten years, a total of 1,562 national-level representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage have completed the acceptance of their recorded achievements, and eight consecutive sessions of "Times grow old, skills and memories last forever - National-level representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage's recorded achievements" have been held nationwide for eight consecutive years.
