Learn Online: How to Make Chinese Dumplings: Cultural and Cooking Process Syllabus: How to Make Chinese Dumplings: Cultural and Cooking Process This is a non-credit course, and is provided
by Ning Liu for informational purposes only. This course cannot be
substituted for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
Course Description
This course provides a striking balance between instructions on how to make dumplings, and an insightful understanding of the powerful symbols this cuisine represents in China's history. Simple, delicious and healthy recipes are provided along with an interesting historical perspective on the cultural importance each dumpling shape represents. You will not only learn how to make some appetizing delicacies for friends and family, but will also enhance personal enjoyment by understanding the significance each masterpiece you create symbolizes.
If you want to experience the pleasure of making Chinese dumplings for friends and family, if you want to better understand the health mysteries of the Chinese culture, if you want to know the impact this food had on more than 2600 years of Chinese history, or if you want to take advantage of the business opportunities that knowing how to make Chinese dumplings provides, then welcome to this course!
Course Requirements
To take the course of "The Cultural Background of Chinese Dumplings and Its Making Process", individuals must have the following basic abilities:
1). Being able to read English as the course in totally in English.
2). Knowing how use the facilities in the kitchen.
Course Goals
This course is mainly designed for people who want to know Chinese culture or Chinese dumplings.
The general course goals include:
1). To help students understand Chinese cuisine culture related to Chinese dumplings.
2). To help students understand the detail process of making more than 20 kinds of Chinese dumplings.
Course Materials
All reading materials will be provided through class netlinks or uploaded documents. Generally in two forms:
1. Words Narration
2. Pictures describing the detail process
Grading Policy
As this is a course mainly for people who want to cook Chinese dumplings. The main purpose of it is to help more and more people understand Chinese culture through contacting Chinese dumplings. Students will not be graded.
Disclaimer
This is a course includes a set of guidance, the practice following the guidance might be various because of different people and different facities. However, practice makes perfect, trying more will help you.
Course Topics
1. How, When and Why do Chinese people eat Chinese dumplings?
2. The History and Culture Background of Chinese Dumplings
3. The Basic Making Process of Chinese Dumplings
4. To Wrap and Cook Chinese Dumplings in Different Ways
5. Different Stuffing of Chinese Dumplings
Chinese Dumplings
2600 years ago, when western hemisphere was in ancient Greece time, Chinese people who lived on eastern hemisphere begun to make Chinese dumplings. For 2600 years, Chinese people blended their understanding of the nature, their understanding of happiness, and their best wishes to their family members into the process of making Chinese dumplings. As a result, Chinese dumplings became a kind of gourmet food which contains the most abundant cultural meaning in the world. Modernists who want to understand Chinese history and psychology of Chinese people will have to know about Chinese dumplings.
Today, people found out with a surprise that Chinese dumplings opened out the nutriology opinion that meat, vegetables and wheat should be arranged in certain ratio 2600 years ago. So Chinese dumplings is really a kind of healthy food that is worthy of the name. In ancient China, when the medical condition was very behindhand, there existed people aged more than 100 years who ate dumplings chronically.
1800 years ago, Chinese famous doctor Zhang Zhongjing cured people with dumplings, and became the first person who use "dietetic therapeutics".
Today, Chinese dumplings have been spreaded throughout the world, and has become a kind of gourmet food that was fashionable throughout the world. It has also provided infinite business opportunities in modern restaurants, tourism, holiday consumption, recuperation, etc.
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