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- Food/ for China PEARL S. BUCK ced by TeicGim, New York, and presented by che Bast and West (Prem the third of six film sripe on China HEN I think about food in China, I have a sense of warm pleasure, Chinese food is Chinese cooking is a great art. Chinese peopl eat to live, but they also eat to enjoy, and this is true from the simplest family meal to the rich man’s feast of thirty and forty dishes. But let us start at the beginning, Food comes, of course, from the land. Because food is so highly ap- preciated in China the farmer has had a high posi- tion, traditionally, in Chinese society. The feeling of the farmer for his land is profound. No one selis land willingly. The family divides the farm through inheritance, but seldom except under necessity, ey sale. Inheritance has divided ‘the land inte tiny plots and farms in China look like gardens and are Amociation tended as carefully, so great is love of the Generations of the same family upon the land have devel good farm practices, animal and human, has been returned to Sometimes silt is used from rivers and the soil of China is fertile after thousands Yet there is hunger in China, money for food. And when there famines, there is no food even for afford it. Every year, somewhere in China, there are refugees from war or disaster. refugees from hunger go usually to bis 3 they build themselves shacks of reeds beg or try to get a little work. bee eit Ra sf ae 3 } be ca