Since the 18th CPC National Congress, with the strong advocacy and promotion of the CPC Central Committee, the "CD-ROM action" has been widely carried out, which has aroused the awareness of loving and saving food in the whole society and formed a social trend of practicing strict economy and opposing waste. Everything is long, and eating is great. How to make people from "full meal" to "good meal" is not only the mission of agricultural researchers, but also the subject concerned by the majority of designers. What kind of food appliance design can make people feel the warmth of culture and art while eating? How to use more ingenious and reasonable design to maximize the recycling of resources? Chinese designers are tirelessly exploring the new direction of contemporary catering appliance design from multiple creative perspectives. Food nourishes mankind. In China, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are necessities in people's daily life, commonly known as "seven things to open the door". In a year, whether we follow the rotation of solar terms or celebrate traditional festivals, we can't get around the word "food". Therefore, there has been the saying that "food is the heaven for the people" since ancient times. The purpose of design and creation is to serve life. The relationship between food culture integrated into life and design is very close. The storage and processing of food materials, the cooking and enjoyment of food, the atmosphere and etiquette of dining, the customs and culture of drinking tea... Everything in life is closely related to eating and drinking utensils. Food is colored by utensils, and tea is fragrant by utensils. For thousands of years, with the development of food appliance design, food culture has been continuously enriched and extended. In recent years, with the continuous improvement of China's economic and social development level and people's living standards, people's growing needs for a better life are also reflected in eating utensils. The materials commonly used in the design and production of eating utensils include ceramics, bamboo, metal, glass, fiber, etc. Catering utensils designed and made with a variety of materials and processes can not only meet people's practical functional needs in various types of catering activities, but also build visual beauty and convey artistic ideas through their shape changes. The beauty of texture blooming by different material attributes and the cultural heritage carried by decorative patterns bring spiritual pleasure and satisfaction to the participants of catering activities. At present, the Chinese design community has a wealth of innovative designs of eating utensils. In recent years, many exhibitions and expositions related to catering appliance design at home and abroad have been held, and there is no lack of the shadow of excellent Chinese designers. In the process of design and production, many works follow the green design concept and pay attention to "integrity and innovation". They not only emphasize the inheritance of traditional culture, but also pay attention to creating new ideas on its basis, showing the multiple perspectives and dimensions of contemporary Chinese catering appliance design. As a living appliance, the practicability of eating utensils is the original intention of all designs. Therefore, how to continuously improve the practical value of artifacts in design and make them more in line with the living habits and customs of "people" as the main body of design is the direction of many designers. Taking the work "drying table" as an example, its design inspiration comes from the custom of drying grain in the harvest season in rural China. The designer organically combines the functions of the eight immortals table and the dustpan, uses the deconstruction technique in modern design to explain the traditional eight immortals table, and decorates bamboo utensils such as dustpan with traditional Chinese lacquer art. The work not only achieves the combination and extension of different appliances in practical functions, but also reflects the integration and infiltration of traditional lifestyle and modern design concepts with rich visual vocabulary. Pickle making, as a curing method to prolong the shelf life of vegetables, plays a unique and important role in Chinese traditional food culture. The design of "new concept pickle jar" retains the way of sealing and preserving the traditional pickle jar with water and air. In view of the problems of excessive volume and rough appearance of the previous pickle jar, it is redesigned to adapt to the modern family structure and clean home environment. The improved pickle jar not only solves the needs of meals, but also avoids the waste caused by excessive food stock, but also becomes a decorative display full of artistic beauty in the home environment. Mining tradition is to better serve the present. China has a rich tradition of food culture, which is deeply rooted in it. It refines representative skills and applies them in the design of modern food utensils. Ordinary life utensils have the soul of culture. Take a look at the eight bowls - high foot tableware series. The design inspiration of the work comes from the modeling characteristics of traditional artifacts in the Han Dynasty. According to the traditional concept of "round sky and round place" in China, the design team designed the utensils as round mouth and square bottom, which fully embodies the concept of "food is the God of the people", and makes this group of tableware have higher recognition and aesthetic value. The tea set bamboo Festival silk language refines the image of "bamboo" in Chinese traditional culture. The technique of "bamboo thread porcelain" used in the work is a traditional handicraft with exquisite production. The creator takes white porcelain ware as the embryo and weaves bamboo silk as thin as hair and soft as silk according to the embryo. During the production process, the bamboo silk changes with the outline of the porcelain body to form a unique texture, highlighting the fresh and elegant oriental cultural charm. Have the courage to express ideas and personality, and try to explore the design boundary of eating utensils. This design concept is more and more respected by young designers. They either highlight the design features from a new perspective, explore new manufacturing processes, or boldly practice with new materials. Many of their works are refreshing. Ye Wen, a lacquerware dish made of copper, draws lessons from the texturing method of Chinese painting to reshape the surface texture of copper, and boldly explores a new dimension of artistic expression of copper. The designer takes the objects in the shape of curly leaves as the carrier, uses the traditional lacquer art to decorate the body, and expresses the visual richness and artistic charm of the two materials through the comparison of smooth and wrinkled texture, while reflecting the aesthetic realm of traditional Chinese painting. The shape of Shanhai cup seems simple, but it is not "simple" at all. The work consists of more than ten colorful water cups, including glass, lacquer, pottery, wood, gold, silver, copper, paper, bamboo and other materials. Fine workmanship and changeable texture make these appliances form a colorful "mountain and sea world". China's green development concept, mode and wisdom provide an inexhaustible driving force for building a beautiful China and an important driving force for creating a new pattern of global green development. When designing and creating, Chinese designers also implement the awareness of sustainable development to provide ideas and methods for energy conservation and environmental protection. A good example is the non plugged in food warmer "bamboo woven Wu warehouse". "Wufanke" is a traditional heat preservation appliance in China. The hot food is sealed in a container made of straw, which can keep the food warm for two to three hours, waiting for the family working in the field to return and eat. The work "bamboo woven Wu storehouse" is improved on the basis of "Wu rice nest". Bamboo woven layers are added inside and outside the rice straw woven container, so that it can be separated and dried. It can not only make up for the uneven visual defects of rice straw, but also tighten the rice straw layer to make the utensils have better heat preservation effect. On the basis of continuing the traditional folk wisdom, the work redesigns it, so that this non plugged in food warmer can enter the modern family with a new look and provide us with warm stomach and heart food. In addition, the use of sandstone paper as the material of tableware for environmental protection; "Waste stone dining table" is processed from the waste materials generated in ore mining, which provides a model for the reuse of stone materials; In "curium ware - broken porcelain rebirth utensils series", the food plate grinds and splices the non degradable broken porcelain pieces to make them "Nirvana rebirth" in a brand-new state, giving new life value and aesthetic significance to the waste porcelain pieces. People's use and aesthetic requirements of eating utensils in different times are not invariable. In addition to the changes of cooking methods, dining forms and dining environment, the improvement of people's cultural and artistic cultivation and the transformation of aesthetic taste will also promote the continuous development of eating utensils design. It can be said that the design of eating utensils is dynamic, and the real significance of contemporary eating utensils design is to design for the use of contemporary people. In addition, in order to make the design of eating utensils keep pace with the times, we also need to carry out extensive academic exchange activities, put our design on a larger stage, and give people with different cultural backgrounds and eating customs the opportunity to see, understand and use them, which is of positive significance to the development of contemporary eating utensils design in China. (outlook new era)