Dried plum is Cixi, Yuyao, Shaoxing area common dishes, mostly by mustard, rape, cabbage, cabbage, winter vegetables, potherb mustard and other sun-dried pickled dried vegetables, of which, dried mustard is the most common.

2, dried mustard, dried rape, dried cabbage difference, more home-made, so that the leaves dry, pile of yellow, and then add salt pickling, and finally dried in the sun mounted altar. Oil light yellow and black, fragrant, relief of summer heat, clean internal organs, eliminating food accumulation, cough treatment, and appetizers, so Shaoxing residents every hot summer must be dry vegetables burn Yang, its use is endless, as for the "moldy dried vegetables cut meat" is more Shaoxing specialties, has been into the "Chinese cuisine".

3, the Qing Dynasty, Meganulai had as Cixi, Yuyao, Shaoxing's "eight tributes" one of the production of extremely elaborate, the selection of materials to be fine, before the Qingming Festival, the mustard, potherb mustard heart drying, with a small bunch of gold and silver wire tied up in a small bundle, mounted on a small altar in the salted, to be brine back down, take out the maturity, drying, steaming, the dish was reddish-black, in the sun, so that the repeated steaming a number of times! Until the color red, bright, fragrant, and finally loaded into the outside decorated with figures in the landscape of the dish altar sealed.

4, according to the old man who had made tribute dishes in the Qing Dynasty recalled that such refined tribute dishes by Cixi, Yuyao, Shaoxing Governor and Shanyin County Supervisor, every year, but a thousand pounds, the dish altar with a yellow cover seal, special people transported to the capital. According to legend, Emperor Qianlong six to Jiangnan, come to Shaoxing to taste the dishes and vegetable farms made with tribute vegetables. Nowadays, not only Shaoxing farmers make their own vegetables in almost every house, every household is always prepared, through the year, Cixi in Ningbo area is mainly making commercial dried plum vegetables. The annual output of commercial dried prunes is more than 250 tons, which is exported both at home and abroad.