‘A Bite of China II’ accused of plagiarizing BBC documentary  

《舌尖2》被指抄袭BBC纪录片 网友上传对比照(图)

万众期待的《舌尖上的中国2》终于播出了，如果说第一季更多地侧重观众的味蕾，那么第二季加入了更多的人文情怀。第二季的变化导致观众对节目的看法褒贬不一，并不像第一季那样好评如潮。尤其是4月18日第一集《脚步》播出后，网友表示有抄袭BBC的嫌疑。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- The long awaited second season of "A Bite of China," a Chinese documentary television series on the history of food, eating and cooking, began airing last Friday. But the program didn't receive the strong audience response expected, and has been accused of stealing ideas from a BBC documentary, the Yangtze Evening Post reported on Wednesday.

In the first episode of "A Bite of China II," scenes of a man in Tibet's Nyingchi Prefecture climbing up a tree to get honey from a beehive have been criticized for copying a similar scene in the BBC documentary "Human Planet," in which an African tribesman climbs a tree in the Central African Republic to get honey.

Netizens uploaded screenshots of the two scenes together to highlight their similarities: both have scenes of climbing, looking up and picking honey.

Some netizens said the local people in Nyingchi Prefecture have no tradition of climbing trees to get honey, so the plot is fake and designed to create a visual impact.

Chen Xiaoqing, director of the documentary, denied the plagiarism allegations, saying "We noticed there is also a tree-climbing scene in the 'Human Planet', but the one featured in our documentary is different. I don't think it is plagiary or imitation."