Lu Qin Cooking Skills - (Includes CD)

Author: Lu Qin
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The art of foot care has a long history in China, with records of "diseased feet" found in oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang Dynasty. During the development of this industry, three distinct schools emerged across the nation: the Hebei Road centered around Beijing, the Shandong Road centered around Jinan, and the Jiangsu Road centered around Yangzhou. Among them, Yangzhou, historically renowned as a leisure and consumption hub, enjoys a distinguished reputation for its numerous skilled practitioners and exceptional techniques, becoming famous both domestically and internationally, and is often called the "Foot Care Hometown." The author of this book, Lu Qin, is a leading figure in contemporary Yangzhou foot care. This book, richly illustrated, introduces Lu Qin's foot care techniques, including: nail care, foot care tools and equipment, foot-holding posture, scraping feet, and treating foot diseases. With a sharp and exquisite foot care knife and a pair of skillful hands, the work is akin to "carving on meat." Foot care practitioners have become respected foot doctors, joining the ranks of the "white-collar" class. This labor is a necessary component of social reproduction and an objective requirement for achieving a well-off society. Moreover, because treating foot diseases is safe, effective, and free of side effects, this industry is destined to have a bright future and is enduringly prosperous.