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24 Solar Terms: 7 things you may not know about Minor Snow

(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2019-11-22

24 Solar Terms: 7 things you may not know about Minor Snow

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Making pickled vegetables

For thousands of years, the people of Nanjing, Jiangsu province have welcomed Minor Snow with pickled vegetables cooked in different ways.

Nanjing is known for its pickled vegetables. In the past, due to inconvenient transportation, vegetables sold in Nanjing were few and expensive. Thus people there made pickled vegetables for the winter.