Culture Insider: 5 things you may not know about Minor Cold

Vegetable rice. [File photo]

Tasting Nanjing vegetable rice

People in Nanjing used to take Minor Cold quite seriously, and they still keep a custom of eating vegetable rice to celebrate this solar term. The rice is steamed with aijiaohuang (a kind of green vegetable), sausage and salted duck that are all the specialties in Nanjing.