The Importance of food carving Art in the Application of Western Food

Food carving is an art, a plastic art and a wonderful flower in the garden of Chinese cooking culture. It can turn mediocrity into magic, put on a big feast and take on a new look, adding a lot of interest and color to banquets and booths. With the transformation from a well-off society to a well-off society, people enjoy food and appreciate more and more artworks (food carving artworks) embellished with it.

Food carving's art has also played a certain role in international communication and won unanimous praise from foreign friends. It has also promoted various competitions at all levels, greatly enhancing the value and taste of China catering.

The importance of food carving

The long and splendid Chinese culture contains rich food culture, among which the exquisite food carving is the most eye-catching, pleasing to the eye and relaxing. China's cooking is called art because of its profoundness, which is highly respected by people all over the world, especially the art of food carving. With the global trend of promoting "green catering", "exquisite catering" and "visual catering", the art of food carving has become a wonderful flower. Many enthusiastic people have promoted the development of food carving, making it more extensive and profound. Food carving combines daily diet with sculpture art, which enriches food production and people's catering methods. A new interpretation of "food" was given. The combination of aesthetic value and practical value of food carving has raised the taste of traditional "taste catering" in China to a new height-all-round and multi-angle catering, which we call "three-dimensional catering". People can enjoy the artistic beauty of delicious food at the same time. Food carving art is no longer a dispensable gadget on the dining table, but has become the theme of people's attention in daily banquets. On the banquet table of the state banquet, it is more dominant. It can be said that it plays an important role in highlighting the theme and making the finishing point in Chinese food, and greatly improves the value and taste of China catering.

The purpose and significance of food carving

Food carving is an indispensable part of China's cooking technology and a bright pearl in the process of beautifying dishes. Used to decorate dishes, beautify banquets and set off a good atmosphere. It is a plastic arts. Whether a state banquet or a folk banquet is properly used, it can show its artistic vitality and appeal, and people can enjoy both material and artistic enjoyment.

The aesthetic feeling of dishes includes color, shape and quality, and its manifestations are color and shape. Excellent knife skills can make dishes look both physical and mental, and clever platters can form beautiful shapes. The use of carvings is mainly to assist the beauty of dishes, and cooperate with dishes to produce aesthetic feeling in a certain time and occasion, which has its own independent aesthetic significance. Sculpture forms range from people and animals to flowers, plants, fish and insects, with fine production, varied techniques, various varieties, different shapes, lively and intriguing. Mastering this ancient and dynamic art is of great significance to systematically master China's cooking skills, which can improve the understanding of the beauty of dishes, fully understand that "the process of cooking dishes is actually a process of creating beauty", and learn carving skills, which can improve the artistic accomplishment of chefs, draw materials from paintings and sculptures, enrich expression techniques, and then apply them to hot dishes and cold dishes to improve cooking skills in an all-round way.

Mastering the skill of food carving is of great significance to promote the essence of China's national food culture. China cooking has a profound influence on the world diet. As we all know, food carving skills are relatively weak. Today, after China's entry into WTO, people can further deepen their understanding of China's cooking through food carving techniques. The gold medal winner of the 5th National Cooking Competition held not long ago, those lifelike sculptures played a decisive role, and many audiences were shocked by the exquisite sculptures. At the reception of the World Summit, the guests also took away the works of various departments and continued to enjoy them after the banquet. It can be seen how important the creation of the beauty of dishes is to the psychology of guests, which determines their appetite and eating psychology, which in turn determines their eating behavior, and then comes down to the overall understanding and evaluation of China's food culture.

The Role of food carving in China Food

Food carving is different from wood carving, jade carving, tooth carving and other carvings. It is not just a handicraft, nor is it for people to watch in isolation. But combined with dishes, so that people can eat while watching. The application of sculpture is various. The placement of sculptures can reveal the theme, set off a good banquet atmosphere, and play the following roles in food activities:

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In high-end artistic dishes, food carving with beautiful shapes such as flowers, animals, scenery and utensils is often used. For example, the mountain in the cold dish "natural scenery" is made of raw materials such as ginger, and another hot dish "dried scallop with hydrangea" is skillfully combined with the sculpture of the lion in the dish to form a perfect picture of the lion playing ball, thus subliming the artistic conception of the dish, improving the style of the dish and making it rise to a delicious taste.

B is directly used for dish modeling to play an auxiliary role.

Some flashy cold dishes and flashy hot dishes, such as dragon and phoenix, dragon play beads, phoenix scallops, guppies and so on. It will be difficult to make a dragon's head, a phoenix's head and a peacock's head with a simple knife method without the help of a food carving, and the whole dish will lose its integrity. Therefore, the supplementary role of food carving in dishes can not be ignored. Reasonable use can make dishes more vivid and colorful. Generally speaking, food carving is essential for dishes that need to be supplemented. Without it, the image of the dishes will be destroyed. For dishes that need to be decorated, food carving is unnecessary, which can make the dishes icing on the cake and more vivid. However, if you don't use it, the dishes still have their own forms and will not affect their integrity.

C replaces fancy cold dishes for vegetable viewing.

Sculpture is used to see dishes, which not only beautifies the seating surface, but also expresses respect for guests and grand reception specifications. Sculpture often appears in large-scale group sculptures that can reflect the theme. For example, the "double happiness and concentricity" sculpture commonly used at wedding banquets is composed of heart-shaped double happiness patterns and affectionate patterns of mandarin ducks and hibiscus flowers, symbolizing the happy life of newlyweds, which is comparable to Qi Fei in the past century. In ancient times, dragons symbolized men and phoenixes symbolized women. The dragon is majestic, the phoenix is light and beautiful, and the dragon and phoenix dance together, expressing people's praise and expectation for a happy marriage.

Another example is the birthday party, where children, young people and old people have different themes. For example, the theme of "20th birthday" can be called "black dragon calling son" and "Dapeng spreading its wings". The black dragon calling son Jackie Chan and carving old dragon calling little dragon into the sea in the clouds symbolize the father's hope that his son will become a useful man as soon as possible and inherit his father's business. Old people can celebrate their seventieth birthday. Fairy children hold Pisces in their hands and carry gold ingots on their backs, which means auspiciousness, jubilation, happiness and longevity. State banquets often use some elegant sculptures that can reflect national characteristics, such as "Panda playing with bamboo" and "Peacock welcoming guests". Friends parties often use "happy flower baskets" and "three friends who are cold in their later years" and so on.

D table decorations used for banquets or competitions are used as shelves.

Such as the Spring Festival, Christmas and other festivals, the use of large foam or flower mud carving ornaments, decorative countertops, increase the festive atmosphere. During the competition, the decorative countertops of carved products are refreshing and eye-catching. For example, the famous scenic spots in Xuzhou, such as Yunlong Mountain, yunlong lake, Yunlong Mountain and Yunlong Lake, are composed of flower mud in the 5th National Cooking Competition, which not only makes the whole countertop have a dynamic beauty, but also adds bright colors to the countertop, which can also reflect the beauty of Xuzhou scenery. It has played a positive role in Xuzhou's external publicity, so food carving is not only a skill of the player in the competition, but also reflects his comprehensive quality and feelings for the people in his hometown.

E is used to decorate the big table.

This is a popular way to use sculpture in recent years, which is widely used by some star-rated hotels, such as buffet breakfast stalls, company opening, opening, reception, various parties, various food festivals, food exhibitions and so on. Most of the sculptures displayed are sculptures with special meanings, mostly foam sculptures, sugar powder sculptures, butter sculptures, sand sculptures and so on. For example, the company's grand opening ceremony reception chooses "Eagle Wing" and "Eagle Wing". If next year's Spring Festival is the Year of the Rooster, the Spring Festival reception can be "Golden Rooster Announces Spring" and "Prosperity". Christmas can be "Santa Claus" and "Christmas angel"; The Mid-Autumn Festival uses "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon" and so on. Carving different works according to different themes can make diners relax and be interested.

The use of sculpture should be closely related to the theme of the banquet, carefully conceived, designed with elegant artistic conception, conforming to nature, complementing the theme of the banquet, adding to the icing on the cake and highlighting the natural beauty. Whether it is antique, noble and elegant, or novel and unique, light and agile style, sculpture should be consistent with the theme of specific food activities, environmental atmosphere, specific dishes modeling and other styles. How to decorate sculpture into basic principles and rich carving art in specific food activities is the most important. Only by constantly participating in the carving practice and constantly summing up, the carving skills can be improved day by day and reach a higher technical level and artistic realm.

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