Witness the Changes

Lead-in

Food

As the old Chinese proverb goe, "Bread is the staff of life".

It reveals us that eating originally is a kind of huaman instinct, and it also represents the essense of vast and profound Chinese cooking culture.

With the days goes on, we could find our totally-changed food surprisingly...

Old Photos of Starved People More

Before 1978

Hungry during Hard Times

In the late 1950´s and early 60´s, China suffered a prolonged and terrible famine. The human toll was higher than from any other famine in modern times.

At the time of the famine, China was a closed shop, no travel, no entertainment, everyone was worried about what would be eaten for next meal...

1978－1990

A Memoir of Changing China in 1980s

1980s is an era of the strongest reformative significance in the modern history of China and also a creative era in a true sense. Total grain production rose to 385 million tons (all tons are metric tons) in the early 1990s, making China the largest producer of cereals in the world.

China´s food economy has undergone a series of fundamental changes since this period. Chinese people took steps from dress warmly and ear one´s fill to a better-off life with a unprecedented abundance food on the tables.

Especially at the end of the decade， food made by roughage has fading out of the menu of citizens, and flour and rice has become the substitute and took good control of the table.

Main Food More

About Vegetable

Food in winter in the past can not be compared with the recent one, you could not buy wharever you want at that time.

People might only buy only a few kinds of vegetable in some fixed markets and the prices of them were not affordable by most ordinary people. Thus， What they only could do was to reserved many vegetables.

Snacks and Sweets More

Simple Vegetable More

Most Popular Vegetable

1990s

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Multifarious Tomato
on Sticks

Dazzling Candies

1991－2000

Time with Food & Drink in Abundance in 1990s

The overall food situation stabilized in the late 1990, spartially as the result of better weather and partially due to the great instruction, organizing and regulation of our government.

China emerged in the 1990s as a low-cost exporter of food products such as vegetables, apples, seafood, and poultry, those are all our principal crops livestock products.

Only traditional food could not satisfied wealthy Chinese people gradually, and abalone, sea cucumber，shark’s fins appeared to them soon. At the same time, varied extraneous cuisines came to China, such as Western food, French cuisine，Italy pizzas，Korean barbecue and Japanese food . All of them could ensure Chinese people enjoy delicious food without going abroad.

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