Feast by the book

A Bite of China film crew captures Spring Festival fare around the country, Liu Zhihua reports.

More than a year ago, when Deng Jie, Chen Lei and a few of their colleagues from CCTV were sipping coffee at Starbucks, they suddenly realized that while Spring Festival is widely considered the year's most important holiday for Chinese, the excitement to celebrate it is growing weaker in today's fast-paced society.

Deng and Chen, documentary film directors who are wife and husband, decided to make a feature-length film to look into the holiday's traditional but less-known delicacies of nianyefan that have been enjoyed by Chinese from one generation to another at the Spring Festival Eve dinner.