Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner: passing down tradition

The ancient town villages, like stars in the sky, are scattering in Hunan province. Like old houses, mountainous and ancient wells have existed for thousands of years, food heritages is special in Hunan's traditional culture. The food of hometown often has a special magic of taking your mind back instantly to your hometown by a plate of simmer meat.

Cooking Mao's simmer meat requires patience. "It will be well cooked beautifully until everything is ready." Just like a ritual, cooking the dish makes every ingredient simmer together with the taste of pork by an hour of time. Calmly waiting for the dish cooked is like enjoying the harvest of the past and the expectation of the future. When the dish was ready, it was served for the New Year's Eve Dinner in Wang Zhimin's family. Wang is an inheritor of traditional Changsha Culture rap which is the rap of traditional Changsha dialect for telling the stories and the history of Changsha City, the capital city of Hunan Province.

纪录片丨《年夜饭》第一集【守】时间的馈赠

家乡的美食往往有种特殊的魔力，也许，只是一道妈妈的红烧肉，瞬间就可以把你带回久违的故乡。

如繁星般散落在三湘大地上的古镇村落，是篆刻在湖湘传统文化里的特殊符号。那些历经千年的叠嶂峰峦、老屋古井，守护着一方百姓、一灶乡愁。烹制正宗的毛氏红烧肉，需要功底和耐心。“待他自熟莫催他，火候足时他自美”。一道“毛氏红烧肉”，就像时间的仪式，将昨日的耕耘、今日的收获与明日的期盼熬制在一起，不徐不疾、自然从容。几乎就在同一时间，这道烙印着岁月记忆的年夜菜也被端上了“弹词传人”王志敏家的餐桌。