★Huang Xiaoji, a well-known writer of rural poetry, is a rural writer from the countryside. In recent years, he has taken his birthplace, Eight Centimeters Village, as a sample for his writing, and has formed a series of distinctive prose collections called "China Countryside Series ".

★ A different history of rural life in the south, counting the old rural artifacts of several generations of people in southern China, deeply reproducing the changes of a Chinese village over the decades, as well as the long-lasting memories of the countryside.

★This book has won the Ninth Bingxin Prose Prize, and has been recommended by Xinhua "For You to Read", Learning to Build a Strong Country, China Reading News, SINA Good Book , and selected in China News Publishing and Radio and Television Newspaper in February best-seller list!

★Staple, Meals, Delicacies, and Drinks. A village of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, and endless tongue memory with inexhaustible nostalgia.

★Famous vernacular writers' personal experiences, counting the daily food in the countryside of several generations of people in southern China, recreating the changing times of a Chinese village in the past few decades with deep love, as well as the rewarding vernacular memories.

★Viewing the changes in the countryside from a humanistic perspective, focusing on and depicting the stories, customs and people in the food, the nostalgia that one remembers has a greater historical, literary and sociological value.

★Designed by the winner of China's most beautiful book, with high-quality paper and two-colour graphic colour printing, it brings readers a warm reading experience while displaying the countryside food in a three-dimensional way.

In this book, Huang Xiaoji, a well-known writer of vernacular prose, describes more than seventy kinds of southern countryside food delicately and vividly with exquisite strokes, and matches them with a large number of colourful illustrations of artistic value and exquisite layout, which realistically reproduces a southern countryside on the tip of the tongue and the smoky years in a southern village, and it is a biography for the diets of the southern farming villagers.
The book is written in a kind and gentle style, and the stories are narrated in an attractive manner, linking several generations of people in the southern Chinese countryside to their hometowns and memories of their homelands, and conveying a strong sense of nostalgia for several generations of people.

Huang Xiaoji
Born in 1969 in Eight Centimeters Village in the mountainous area of southern Hunan Province, Huang Xiaoji is a member of the Chinese Writers' Association and the Chinese Prose Society, and has been awarded the Sun Li Prize for Prose and other prizes. In recent years, he has taken his birthplace as a sample to write about the social changes in the villages of southern China, and has written a number of collections of essays in the series of "Memories of Eight Centimeters", including "The Aging Village" and "The Time of Eight Centimeters".

Catalogues
Series 1.Staple
Pot of Rice with Meat and Vegetables
Rice in a Cauldron
Rice in a Bowl
Glutinous Rice
Porridge
Stewed Sweet Potato
Potatoes
Wheat Flour


Series 2.Meals (preceding chapter)
Pig’s Head
Pig’s Offal
Pork
Roosters
Hens
Native Ducks
Drought Ducks
Gooses
Eggs

Series 3.Meals (next chapter)
The Hypophthalmichthys Nobilis
The Grass Carp
The Hypophthalmichthys Moritrix
The Carp
The Loach
The Ricefield Eel
The Winkle Mollusc
Mussels
Crabs
The Soft-shelled Turtle
The Mantis Shrimp

Series4. Delicacies (preceding chapter)
Rice Curd
Rice Dumpling Rake
ZongZi
Sorghum Dumpling
Dumpling Rake
Buckwheat Cake
Rice Pancake for Religious Purposes
Glutinous Rice Cake
Sun-dried Flake of Rice Vermicelli
Sheet Jelly
Caramel Made by Boiling Malt
Popcorn

Series5. Delicacies (next chapter)
Stir-fried Peas
Stir-fried Peanuts
Stir-fried Melon Seeds
Orchid Root
Fried Dough Rings
Oil Patty Cake
Diced Sweet Potato
Oily Bean Curd
Pickled Chilli
Pickled Bean Curd
Pickled Cabbage
Pickled Taro
Pickled Radish
Pickled Bean Paste

Series6.Drinks
Sweet Potato Clear Distilled Wine
Glutinous Rice Wine
Jar Wine
Medicinal Liquor
Approved Share of Tea
Maple Leaf Tea
Honeysuckle Tea
Herbal Tea
Litsea Celandine Tea
Wild Chrysanthemum Tea
Ginger Soup
Popsicle