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。

期待已久的《舌尖上的中国2》上周五终于播出了!这是一部记录食物、饮食、烹饪历史的中国纪录片。然而据《扬子晚报》周三报道，《舌尖2》得到观众的反响并不如预期的好，甚至被指抄袭BBC纪录片创意。

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。

在《舌尖上的中国2》的第一集中，西藏林芝县一男子爬树从蜂巢采集蜂蜜的画面，被批评抄袭BBC纪录片《人类星球》片段：在《人类星球》中，一名非洲部落男子正在中非共和国爬树采集蜂蜜。

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

网民上传了两个纪录片的对比截图，以突出二者的相似：爬树、仰望、采集蜂蜜。

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。

有些网友指出，林芝县当地人没有爬树采集蜂蜜的传统，所以这个情节是假的、只是为了产生良好的视觉冲击而设计出来的。

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."

《舌尖上的中国2》总导演陈晓卿否认本片存在抄袭，他说：“我们注意到在《人类星球》中也有爬树的画面，但是《舌尖2》中呈现出的是完全不同的。我们不存在抄袭和模仿。”