I / FOUR TALESFOUR MILLENNIA AGOENTER THE TALE
CHAPTER I
Ancestor’s Fuxi
An ancestor’s final offering.
Entry No. 000 · Sichuan dialect
腹喜 · Sichuan Dialect
n. Delicious food.
v. To savour such delicacies.
腹 BELLY · 喜 JOY
Joy of the belly.
Four millennia.
Beneath the Sun and Moon.
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A FILM BY QIU JIONGJIONG
01 / FOUR TALESFour millennia.
Four millennia.
Four feasts.
One table.
for the living and dead.
Four worlds, from the distant past to the eve of modernity. Enter each tale to discover the histories, myths, food and artistic imagination behind it.
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II / FOUR TALESTHREE MILLENNIA AGOENTER THE TALE
CHAPTER II
King’s Fuxi
The old king returns.
III / FOUR TALESTHE 1990SENTER THE TALE
CHAPTER III
Litterateur’s Fuxi
A feast for a poet.
IV / FOUR TALESEARLY 20TH CENTURYENTER THE TALE
CHAPTER IV
Sworn Brother’s Fuxi
A birthday on the edge of history.
THE INDEX / A–Z
Wondering about a name, a spirit, a dish, a fragment of history?
Browse the cultural indexThe People
of FUXI.
03 / BEYOND THE SCREENThe Feast
The Feast
Continues.
The painted and handcrafted universe of FUXI extends beyond the screen into objects, installations and the exhibition Fuxi: A Feast for the Universe at A4 Art Museum, Chengdu.
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