Contents of Meals on a Plate

The author takes the traditional Chinese festive seasons as the recording clues, respectively using the rain, hibernation, chingming, standing summer, small fullness, great summer heat, standing autumn, autumn equinox, cold dew and frost as the recording nodes, and presents the several major stages of farmers' rice planting through diary narratives and images.

The author takes the traditional Chinese festivals as the recording clues, using the rain, hibernation, Qingming, summer, Xiaoman, summer, autumn, autumn equinox, cold dew and frost as the recording nodes, and presents the main stages of farmers' rice planting through diary narratives and pictures. For the purpose of popularizing farming knowledge for children, the author has also carefully organized some links to rice growing and planting knowledge in each record node, with illustrations, thus solving some questions that we take for granted, but cannot give reasonable explanations.

Meals on a Plate is an illustrated book published by China Children's and Young People's News and Publishing House in April 2016, written/illustrated by Yu Hongcheng, and in 2017 it won the National Library Wenjin Book Award.

The author lived in the mountains of Yunnan for two years, experienced the whole process of traditional Chinese rice planting and processing, and created the picture book Food on a Plate by recording the nearly faded traditional farming methods in watercolor and realistic painting style.