The camera crew from food and cultural series Taste get to work in rural Yangquan, on Aug 27. [Photo/yqnews.com.cn]

The program crew of Taste, a food and cultural program broadcast nationally on China Central Television-10, began an eight-day shoot in Yangquan city in North China's Shanxi province on Aug 27.

The program -- which is themed on the food and folk customs and culture in China and the world -- is aired every year during the holidays of traditional Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day.

A photographer from the crew records the preparation of traditional cuisine in Yangquan. [Photo/yqnews.com.cn]

During the filming in Yangquan, the program crew headed off to Liangjiazhai town in Yuxian county, Niangzi Pass in Pingding county, Xiaohe village in Chengqu district and Zuizishang village in Jiaoqu district.

There, they recorded the making of local traditional cuisine and snacks, such as walnut mooncakes and donkey meat dry pots with fragrant sauce, as well as folk crafts and customs including papercutting and spraying molten iron.

"There will be three episodes in the Yangquan series. The first episode themed around celebrations of harvest will be 45 minutes long and is expected to hit the screen during this year's National Day holiday," said Lin Xiaodong, the program director.