Dried plum is a common famous dish in Cixi, Yuyao and Shaoxing. Most of them are dried and pickled by mustard, rape, Chinese cabbage, winter vegetables and wild vegetables, among which dried mustard is the most common. Eating it can relieve summer heat, clean viscera, promote digestion, relieve stagnation, cure cough, promote fluid production to quench thirst and stimulate appetite.

Shaoxing, Ningbo, Jinhua, Lishui and Fuzhou in Jiangxi are called "dried plum vegetables", Taizhou in Zhejiang is called "dried plum vegetables" and Meizhou in Guangdong is called "dried plum vegetables". There are dried mustard tuber, dried rape, dried cabbage, dried winter vegetables and dried wild vegetables, most of which are homemade at home. The method is to dry the leaves, pile them into yellow, then add salt to pickle them, and finally dry them and put them in a jar. Dried vegetable oil is yellow and black, fragrant, relieving summer heat, clearing viscera, resolving food stagnation, treating cough, promoting fluid production and appetizing. Therefore, Shaoxing residents must cook soup with dried vegetables every summer, which benefits them immensely. As for "Sliced pork with dried plum", it is a distinctive dish in Shaoxing and has been included in the China menu.

Zhejiang Ximei is a famous specialty of Cixi, Yuyao and Shaoxing, with a long production history. People in Cixi, Yuyao and Shaoxing usually pickle their own vegetables, which are often used as gifts for relatives and friends. As early as "Yue Zhong Bianlan", it was recorded: "Dried plums are different from dried mustard, rape and cabbage. Mustard is delicious, rape is flat and cabbage is tender. It is used to cook ducks and barbecue, and has a unique flavor. Residents of Cixi, Yuyao and Shaoxing made it themselves. " It can be seen that the production of Shaoxing Meiganlai was extremely common at that time.

According to the memories of the old people who made tribute dishes in the Qing Dynasty, such refined tribute dishes were supervised by Cixi, Yuyao, Shaoxing Magistrate and Shanyin County, with an annual weight of only 1,000 kilograms. The food altar was sealed with a yellow seal and transported to Beijing by special personnel. It is said that Emperor Qianlong visited Jiangnan six times and came to Shaoxing to taste the dishes and food markets made of tributes. Now, not only Shaoxing farmers are almost self-made, but every household has it, which continues all year round. Cixi area in Ningbo mainly produces commercial dried prunes. The annual output of commercial prunes is more than 250 tons, which are exported at home and abroad.

Hakka dried plum is a Hakka local dish which enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. In late autumn and early winter, the mustard in the garden is covered with moss. It has a thick thumb and a bud at the top. Shaped like autumn grapes, crisp and tender. At this time, the village woman picked the cabbage (about 5 inches long) and hung it for a few days. When the leaves become soft, put them in a pot, sprinkle with salt and rub them with your hands. When some juice oozes out, put it into a pottery jar, sprinkle salt layer by layer, and seal the jar mouth with mustard leaves or bamboo shoots. After half a month and twenty days, it was taken out and dried in the sun, and it became a dried plum dish with golden color, salty taste and special fragrance.