Food is the paramount necessity of life (13)

（People's Daily Online） 08:06, January 05, 2013

Having Tangyuan to greet the winter solstice： People wait in queue to get free Tangyuan (Glutinous Rice Balls) on Dec. 15, 2012. To greet the winter solstice, Taipei Yansan Business district and Flora expo Yuan-shan Park hold activities to make and taste Tangyuan. (Xinhua/Wu Jingteng)

Edited and translated by Zhang Leqi.

A bite of China, a documentary about “eating” achieves immediate success nationwide in May, 2012; along with the launching of Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, the space food for the astronauts with Chinese flavor receives great attention; thanks to the help from all walks of life, children from poverty-stricken areas now enjoy “free lunch” in their schools this year; the total output of grain reaches 589,570,000 tons, meaning China achieves a sustained growth for the ninth consecutive year.

“Food is the paramount necessity of life”, so neither trivial nor minor is our daily eating. Then let us follow the editor to review the eating of the year 2012 at the threshold of the New Year.