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.

2. Dried prunes are different from dried mustard, dried oil and dried cabbage. Most of them are made at home. Let the leaves dry and pile up yellow, then pickle them, and finally dry them and can them. It is oily yellow-black, fragrant, summer-heat-relieving, viscera-clearing, digestion-resolving, cough-relieving, fluid production and appetizing. Therefore, Shaoxing residents will burn dried vegetables every hot summer, which is inexhaustible. As for "Dried vegetables and cut meat", it is a Shaoxing specialty and has been included in the China menu.

3. In Qing Dynasty, Camellia was once one of the "Eight Tributes" in Cixi, Yuyao and Shaoxing. It is exquisitely made and well selected. Before Tomb-Sweeping Day, the mustard and potherb mustard were dried, tied with small bundles of gold and silver wires, pickled in a small jar, taken out after the marinade dripped, dried and steamed, and the dishes were served.

4. 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 Zhifu and Shanyin County, weighing only 1,000 kilograms a year. 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.