"China, a country with varieties of geographical environment and climates" "People work from day to night" "As spring planting autumn harvesting summer cultivating and winter storing" "There is a tight schedule existed in the cycle of season and has maintained over thousand years" "Compare to the agrarian age people have gradually estranged from the nature" "Nevertheless, by following the footsteps of their ancestors and cooking their own foods have become the unique cooking way of Chinese" "This is the story of time and is the secret of how Chinese get along with nature" "Zhang Guang Cai Mountain?" "s broad ridge is covered by snows which more than one meter deep" "Deep into the spruce forests logging team is finishing their last task before the mountain closure" "Li Shu Guo is their captain with 25 years of experience" "This tree is falling" "Let?" "s lay down that Ying door tree after this" "Its falling downwards" "Spring is coming but the weather in here is still freezing" "After the stored foods have exausted" "His wife Qin Hong Zhi decided to purchase more at the foot of the mountain" "At northeast of China, fish is a must for a hearty dinner" "Corn tortillas can be put around while stewing the fish" "and when the delicious smell of fish came out the corn tortillas are prepared for enjoying" "At March?" "s night, temperature is 15 degrees below zero" "This is the most appropriate temperature for making the frozen tofu" "Low temperature helps the proteins and water contents to keep separating from each other" "Frozen water helps the tofu become softer and more delicious" "This is Li Shu Guo?" "s favourite food" "7 to 8 kilometers away there is a creek that never be frozen and can be used to stewing fishes which is called Running water by locals" "When hot water is poured into dried foods its original characters are re-appearing" "This is not only the side dish of stewing fish but also is the major source of vitamin in winter" "Your claws please" "I?" "m back" "Everything is good" "Not bad" "Fishes are seared rapidly with hot oil" "Now they add stream water in" "Half an hour later, is the time to put tofu in" "Forzen tofu looks like a honeycomb" "It has a plump look with enough soup" "Let?" "s have dinner together" "Cheers" "Fantastic" "After the stewing fish season" "Winter is coming to an end" "To the south of 2000 kilometers" "Within the same season" "The weather is unpredictable" "At Tian Mu mountain, Spring thunder symbolise the growth of plants" "Gao Bao Liang has noticed the message sent by the nature" "I wake up at 5 am, for 1 month long" "I?" "ll dig bamboo shoots even during thunders" "As it will grow rapidly to the bamboo" "The first bamboo shoots right after the spring thunder is called thunder shoots" "They can be ate within 10 days and after that, they will be bamboos" "Thunder shoots have an extremely short guarantee period" "They even show different taste after half a day and on next day, its even not enjoyable" "The couple works from day to night" "They will collect 750 kg at the busiest period" "Get ready, I?" "ll drop the shoots now" "Deep in the mountains" "Bamboo shoots have become the centre of a family?" "s daily life" "From Cutting the stump to removing the peel and sheels" "They will be prepared rapidly from women?" "s work" "Thunder shoots have a crisp taste" "Regardless of how to cook it" "It will becomes a tasty dish" "Bamboo is originally from China" "At Lin An, over 150 thousand people eat bamboo" "The couple use tea heats to cook another delicious food" "Bamboo shoots is boiling with spices and tear into finger wide" "The fire leads to evaporations" "This is the most popular tea snacks of Jiang Nan and also is the most important incomes of the couple" "A month after the thunder shoot season" "The delicious story belongs to the mountain people has just begun" "Under the withered leaves" "Bamboo shoots is growing" "It roots are dug up from the clay" "Yellow arch is grew from the deepest places" "If we dug the yellow arch" "We?" "ll only cook for our self" "Its very tasty" "This is the very rare yellow arch" "They may only be found three or four in a mountain" "But it taste more crisp than any other shoots" "It even has pear?" "s taste" "Also, after the yellow arch is dug up its qualities will degraded rapidly" "From harvest to the processing, it must be measured in minutes" "Bacon with yellow arch" "This is the most common style of Gao?" "s family" "They have a very different taste between each other" "Only need to steam for 7 minutes the different taste between meat and shoots start combining" "This delicious dish of bamboo farmers" "Is a lofty realm of the Chinese diet" "The ultimate food is only prepared for the most hard working people" "Shen Dun Shu a farmer of Shang Bao Village" "He applied another way to know seasonal variations" "Chinese Almanac, formed in 2000 years ago it arranged 24 solar terms to guide the farmer which according to the time change and meteorological change" "In March, Weather becomes warmer" "People go seeding pumpkin and gourd and waiting for its growth" "April is the time of butterfly" "People cut branches and used as a support of yam" "In May, swallows start nesting" "Gardens are waiting for fertilisation" "After the summer, corns are ready to eat" "Towel gourd and pumpkin can be harvested" "Until September and October," "It is the time to sowing scallions and waiting for its growth" "Seasons to seeding and harvesting seasonal" "Chinese farmers get rich returns with the experience of ancestors" "Rice grows to five or six leaves and they are ramets" "There are several planting masters living here" "Seeding here, and here" "His son is in Beijing" "Thus Shen has called his daughter to help the family" "Shen Dun Shu believes that regardless of how far the children left from home" "They should not forget their family and hometown" "In spring, Plants are growing" "Although it is still not the time for seeding but nature has prepared a variety of wild herbs" "At the waterfront of the Poyang Lake" "There are full of wild celery and artemisia selengensis" "Make it to Artemisia cake" "Its not only tasty, but also is the taste of nature" "At north hill" "The habit to make pot magnolia has never changed" "Steamed elm seeds meal is the first delicious food over generations" "Yanshan" "An De Wen is waiting for a cold spell in early spring" "Toona sinensis should bloom at Guyu season" "But in here they still not sprouting" "Almost just over a night an unusual fantastic smell come out" "They need to be processed from morning to afternoon and continued for a week" "Toons only need to grow for two or three days" "It will be taste bad for just grow one more day" "The thickness of the wild herbs are similar to chopsticks they only grows at the back shade of this mountain" "Toon elements emit an unusual and full-bodied fragrance" "Some people cannot stand it" "But in the view of who love it this is the taste of spring" "China, is the only country in the world that its people eat toons" "The one that fried with wrapped egg is called toona sinensis fish" "It can also be chopped and fried with egg" "or to make a tofu salad" "All of them are the unique spring foods" "Just one week two toons" "The leaves are still growing" "But is no longer good to eat" "For Ann" "Spring has passed" "Shang Bao, Seeds has grow new roots" "Shen Dun Shu is waiting for a spring rain" "Shen?" "s family decide to bring their most sincere expectation to a kind of food" "Rich of first year, added to chives" "Fretted to green rice soup" "Brewing the dried gardenia fruit makes it look like clay yellow" "The third layer is rice white" "The last is the festive tomato red cooked layers by layers and repeated 9 times" "The rice pudding made is called Jiu Ceng Pi" "Green spring" "Golden autumn" "White rice and prosperous days" "For all the farmers on earth" "This might be their most common aspiration and the colour of it" "Heading to the north" "It is already summer at the lower reached of Yangtze River" "Qian Dao Hu, in the clean water" "There is a delicious brewing" "1 month ago, is the season of pine pollination" "Dry pollen falling from male ball and nourished the best fish in China" "But for now, it is not the best time to cook fish" "Fishermen has their own targets" "Seasonťin Chinese characters" "Means to do the right things at right time" "As the weather gets warmer" "Snails migrated from deep water to shallow water" "This kind of gastropod software animal is the delicious food of waterfront residents since ancient times" "Jiang Nan people is the master to eat snails" "A gently suck between the lips and teeth is enough" "They will use toothpicks if necessary" "Have another one" "Snail does not taste good originally" "People eat snail is for its feeling and to enjoy the ?" "suck?" "process to eat it" "However, the best snail is hidden in the deep mountains" "Kai Hua, located in Qian Tang Jiang" "Between valleys is the working place for Yu Yun Shan" "Self made waterproof mask clear the world under the water" "Since become a snail catcher" "Yu is the best person who knows seasonal variations in here" "This water snail captured by Yu Yun Shan" "Is very tasty and contains a little bitter taste" "His wife goes to trade snails at 5 am everyday" "This snail with green shell" "Can sell to a very good price due to its quality and growth from clean water" "Here, have a look" "Some basil can raise fresh tastes and usually served with snails" "I will normally pick snails until 3-4 am" "Sometimes if my phone is ringing at night" "I will be very upset" "Every time my daughter is coming back" "I?" "ll cook this for her" "As the different working time" "Lunch is the only gathering time for this family" "In daughter?" "s view" "His father is sleeping over the whole summer" "But what she doesn?" "t know is that green snail is sleeping over daytime as well" "Yu Yun Shan needs to catch his time before the water temperature drops" "This is his best harvest season" "Dangerous work needs to be continued throughout the summer" "Sunshine and the temperature are not only brings delicious but also made a colorful world" "With the ice melting" "Plants are start growing again" "Plants keep growth and benefit from photosynthesis" "Different temperature nourished variety kind of crops" "Sugar accumulated under sunshine" "Food dried to be stored" "Lan islands is a volcano island with 45 square kilometers and is the place of Tao clans" "From March to June is the flying fish season" "The ocean will motivate the heartbeat of men" "In order to avoid predators" "Flying fish has evolved a unique skill" "They can glide above water from fast swing their tail and to get a great driving force" "Swim hard, and close the mouth of nets" "Relying on their co-operation skills they will have a significant income" "But in Ba Bu?" "s grandfather?" "s view" "Their action is a disrespect to the sea" "Flying fish is not only the Tao people?" "s food but also is their belief" "Excessive industrial fishing used to have some bad effects on the environment and is slightly alleviated until a few years ago" "For planked boat, Tao people selected 13 kinds of wood to elaborate unique boats for their fishing flying fishes" "Just 5 to 6 fishes are enough for a family for one day" "They will only fishing more than that at the end of each season to make dried fish" "They can be ate off the fishing season" "The process of dried fish is not complicated" "After simple marinated and tied they can be put under sun exposure for 3 days and are prepared to serve" "Simple food with authentic life" "Grandfather deeply understand the best way to communicate with nature" "Once again after the fishing" "Sunshine and flying fish makes a wonderful picture" "This is the convention between the Tao people and the sea" "Nature does not always have positive effects to the mankind" "Hu Nan, wild sun" "At Guan Shi town, fishponds are drying" "He Lian Rong?" "s family" "Faced with the dilemma of crop failure" "This year?" "s drought has last for 40 days" "Near 50 days now" "They stop grouting as short of water and that leaves only the wizened husk" "In order to save 30 acres of paddy fields" "He?" "s family has tried every method to save their crops" "Although the overall situations in China is still good and have last for 10 years but extreme weather in locals still have a huge impact for local farmers" "Dried rice are burned" "They have prepared to plant some dryland crops" "But the miracle appeared" "Finally it is raining" "We are so pleased" "That can save some rice as well" "In addition to the sunshine, plant is inseparable from water" "Precipitation in China" "Shows a decrease trend from southeast to northwest" "Tu Lu Fan" "Extreme drought" "Is the hottest area in China" "But the gravel Gobi does not destroy life" "Melted water from Tian Shan brings life to there" "Here is the sweetest place of China" "Under the grape" "Hari Dan ?" "s family is enjoying the harvest" "We have 7 people" "Our whole life is relying on these grape" "Turpan, a place where always have less cloud" "Enough sunshine" "Let the grapes accumulate abundant sugar" "As at night, heat is well dissipated and that makes the sugar well preserved within grapes" "The secret of sweetest grapes in China is in this kind of huge temperature difference between day and night" "Picked during daytime, hanged at night" "Square holes are not only prevent direct sunlight to grapes but also make air flows easier" "Every year in March" "They will work in grape fields" "We will keep checking the grapes" "Several times" "Just like our children" "And now, they can have a rest and to wait for temperature and time doing their jobs" "1 month later" "Sweeter grapes are prepared" "Their Sugar content reached 30%" "Iraq Bibra will use grape juice to fabricate a food with high energy" "Xinjiang nut cake" "Boiled at 115 degrees for 4 hours 90 kg of grape juice concentrated to 30 kg syrup" "Roasted walnut has a crispy taste" "Well baked Xinjiang nut cake will be cut to smaller pieces" "In other area of China" "This food is called Qie Gao" "This is not only the western style dessert but also is the most important source of calories for locals" "Xinjiang nut cake is finished" "Turpan grapes have reached another levels" "Only have 20% of water content and 60% of sugar content this is the most famous currant that can go through four seasons" "A pot of hand pilaf" "Is the best treatment for a busy year" "This is Xinjiang?" "s unique yellow turnip strip" "Mutton fat can help carotene to dissolve in the intestines under the assistance of the enzyme and transform to the absorbable vitamin A" "Tomatoes bring orange colour to the rice" "With a small fire until the sauce is dried" "The sweet and sour grapes can be served with lambs" "It will not only making the lamb less oily but also make the meal more tasty" "As long as to have the most respectful attitude to the nature and time" "Every family will have their sweetest rewards" "Lets back to the story of summer" "Only at mid summer with water temperature exceeds 18 degrees a kind of delicious food will breed under the water" "The Yangtze River and Qing Ge Jiang intersect at Wuhu" "Master Xu makes the flour into snowflakes" "Pressing" "Rolling and cutting" "Noodles are tasty and slippery" "It is the most representative snacks of Wuhu" "However, the best season to have some Xiao Dao noodles is on the very mid of summer" "Under the warm water, Shrimp start breeding 4 to 6 cm in size of the parent shrimp wrapped with thousands of grains" "At slower flows" "T-shaped tubular shrimp baskets from last night is full of shrimps now" "To get the shrimp reo by shifting with a bamboo basket and 1kg of shrimp could collect 50g shrimp reo." "Days and months passed" "Only about 8kg shrimp reo could be collected after working for a whole summer" "They usually pour the onion-ginger sauce on those shrimp reo and steam them with" "yellow wine." "In order to get the shrimp reo dried, firstly dry them under the sun for half an hour, and then cook them with a gentle heat" "Eventually, sealed them with some peeled garlic in a hermetic bag" "In the summer of the cities along river after finished boiling sliced noodle they pouring out the noodle in the bone soup with Chinese onion and soy sauce on the top" "100g noodles and 10g dried shrimp reo" "The perfect mixture with shrimp reo and bone soup in white color and tasty soup" "makes a best reward for locals in this hot and humid summer in Wuhu which is called Sliced Noodles with shrimp roe" "Your Sliced Noodles with shrimp roe is ready" "For the means of time" "Chinese people always have a unique expression" "The process of breaking the cocoon into a butterfly the cycle of a flower bloom and fade the trees and grass grow and perish they are all presenting the pace of the time" "However, in the transforming of 4 seasons" "Chinese people are still searching the secret of the food" "The bladefish is the freshest in the spring in the warm water condition it would be better to eat stewed chicken with bamboo in summer to avoid sickness you should not miss the wonderful fish head in the autumn" "In the winter, you must try the hot-pot with boiling stream" "Even though, our lifestyles are more and more modern but we can still feel the time is passing and the weather is transforming through the food culture on the top of the table" "After spring and summer the richest fish season of Qingdao lake is coming" "Fishes are jumping up and down in the wide eyes nets pulled by dozen of" "fishers" "That?" "s the beginning of the enormous harvest" "Chinese people believes that if they abide by the agreement with the season they will get the richest rewards from nature in the autumn" "There are full of wonderful sweet tastes in the air" "Wu jiang people harvest the sweet olive early in order to get the best taste of them" "The acidity of the root keeps the flower?" "s color and smells fresh" "They make sweet olive with salty sauce and sweet olive jam in order to extend the fragrance of the flower from the end of the spring until the winter" "After a pouring in autumn the birds?" "flying on the sky remind yang fu xing that it is the season to harvest the most delicious food ever" "This is lactarius" "Each year, at the August of lunar calendar," "The wild goose fly from north to our place," "Those brown and umbrella-shaped lactarius grow under" "both pine tree and chestnut trees" "They are delicious even they don?" "t look like one" "Although lactarius are not as famous as before but each year as soon as the season is arrived" "Yang Fu Xing would climbing up to mountains to gather these treasures" "After stewed with chestnut shells and fried with dried chills followed by put few slices of tender ginger in" "That will give out a totally fresh and wonderful taste of the luctarius and it smells similar to pine needles" "Cook them until luctarius is drying pour in a small amount of light soy sauce to make it salty and dark soy sauce to make it colored, followed by stew them with a gentle heat for about 10 mins and wait for the soup become thick" "Finally, the luctarius jam is ready to be served" "Although it doesn?" "t looks pure but it does tastes wonderful" "However, only half finished until now" "the sweet olive is ready to be used after a flurry of rain no matter cook it as sauce or ingredients it would be tasty" "The best partner with chicken breast is the fresh chestnut" "tied lean meat, fried tofu and pork liver together by chitling and put sauce to boiling it" "That is the most delicious food in this season" "In China, people normally eat thicker food in autumn in order to compensate the losses of hot summer and fighting for the upcoming winter which is called ?" "tie qiu biao?" "that?" "s a tradition in an agricultural society" "The best food partner of luctarius is the adult duck meat from more than 3 years layer ducks who lives from hundreds miles away, at changdang lake" "They makes the perfect meat and mushroom combinations by stewing luctarius and duck meat together" "The sparkles made by same season?" "s ingredients fire up the autumn" "Chinese chef found lots of wonderful ingredients and combined them together in the season transforms by their richest experiences and passed from generation to generation" "Autumn is the season to harvest paddy rice" "They need to be dried on the ground for 2 weeks" "The unique climate and soil condition make the paddy rice grows in rich-nutrition conditions" "After rice shell has been peeled off the grain is wonderful and hard the color is bright and clean" "This is the best grain in China" "It has experienced 138 days long on growth period" "Harvest is continuing" "The temperature is below zero" "3000 km away" "After the harvest, shangbao" "The wind in autumn is stronger" "The third generation of Shen family starts a new life journey" "The new born baby is going to be a month old" "It?" "s the time to host a party to celebrate the full moon wine" "According to the lunar calendar in order to pick up a most fortune day they need to prepare 5 bowls and 4 plates follows the traditional" "The owner?" "s faith is showed on the amount of the meat they are given" "This is the time to account for their incomes" "They sowed seed in spring and waiting a whole summer until the autumn to get harvest happily enjoy this season with their families this is the harvest season for Chinese" "Dongbei is the earliest place where enter winter the snow is falling land began to freeze" "Li Shuguo Couple prepared their food to get through the long winter" "In winter not only the land and crops are in sleeping times but also is the time for busy people to come home and enjoy the joy of reunion with their family to reward themselves" "Before the Spring festival, more than hundreds of millions people start their journey to home" "They will bring simple luggage and take the transport whatever they can take to meet their family for a reunion dinner on New Year?" "s Eve" "This is the agricultural civilisation left to modern China" "Also is the end of our story" "Cheers" "In xiangxi shangbao the paddy field is ready for a new rowing seed cycle" "In hunan hengyang" "He Lian Rong?" "s family is looking forward to a new year" "Flying fish season is arriving at Lan Yu" "Ba Bu has took his grandfather?" "s work" "Nowadays everyone experiences too much pains and joys" "but they will always hid the pains and get their happiness from their food and deliver that attitude to the table over four seasons"