Cangzhou winter cuisine has a unique flavor, with four flavors: fragrant, sweet, salty and spicy. In addition, it has the advantages of moderate moisture content, sealed packaging, no dryness in spring, no rot in summer, no mildew in autumn and no freezing in winter, so it can be called a good vegetable in four seasons. Cangzhou winter vegetable is made of local high-quality Chinese cabbage with thin ribs and rich sugar. The old ribs and green leaves are removed, cut into small pieces with a width of about 1 cm and a length of about 1.2 cm, dried, mixed with appropriate amount of refined salt and garlic paste, packed in jars, tightly sealed and naturally fermented for a long time. Its color is golden, its smell is fragrant, its mouth is slightly sweet, its salty taste is slightly spicy, and it has high nutritional value, so it is a specialty of Cangzhou. Cangzhou winter vegetables have a long history. According to folklore, Cangzhou winter vegetables were very famous in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the production scale was expanded and the products were increased. Merchants engaged in winter vegetables took advantage of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal running through Cangzhou City and loaded them by ships, which were sold to Beijing and Tianjin in the north and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the south.

According to the Records of Cangzhou County, during the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty, there were dozens of winter vegetable workshops inside and outside the ancient city of Cangzhou, which were thriving and sold at home and abroad. In 1936, Cangzhou winter vegetables won the quality product award at the commodity fair held in Paris. Cangzhou winter vegetables are convenient to eat, and can be used as pickles with meals and tables in banquets. When cooking or cooking soup, adding a small amount of winter vegetables as a condiment will make it fragrant and spicy, which will induce people's appetite. You can also make Cangzhou winter vegetables into a unique flavor. For example, "Fried Winter", a famous Cangzhou flavor food cooked with winter vegetables and winter bamboo shoots, is yellow and white, elegant in color, crisp, tender and refreshing, and full of fragrance, which is highly appreciated by domestic and foreign tourists.