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cording to Chinese medicine, sweet potato can nourish the spleen. It can prolong life and reduce the risks of

disease.Ten "white" herbal medicinesPeople in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province h▓ave a tradition of gathering 10 herbal medicines on the first day of White Dew. The names of these her▓bal medicines all contain the Chinese word "bai" ▓which means white, such as baimujin (white hibis▓cus). People believe that stewing these herbal medi▓cines with black-bone chicken or duck can nourish the human body and cure arthritis.Playing with swallow cartsIn Tancheng county, Shandong province, children play with swallow h▓andcarts, a sharpened wooden cart in the shape of a swallow, on the first day of White Dew. People of every household there can make this ▓kind of wooden toy, which can even make▓ pleasing sounds. Pushing the swallow cars while running can help the children resist coldnes▓s and improve their bodily constitutions.Offer sacrifices to Da YuWhite Dew is a time for people i▓n the Taihu Lake area of East China to offer sacrifi▓ces to Da Yu, a hero who tamed floods▓ by regulating rivers and watercourses. Besides on the first day of White Dew, people also hold sacrificial rites for Da Yu on the eighth day of the▓ first lunar month, on Tomb-sweeping Day, and on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.Please scan the QR Code to f▓ollow us on InstagramPlease scan the QR Code to follow us▓ on WechatMost Chinese know about Jinan ▓even if they have not been there. Winter of Jinan, an▓ essay written by Lao She (1899-1966), is comp▓ulsory reading for high school students▓ across the country. As Lao She des▓cribes it, Jinan's winter is unlike thos▓e of other northern cities. It is "benevolent" - warm, sunny and "without the sound of wind". It is "an old city,▓ with many hills and springs, asleep in w

armth and c▓omfort, waiting to be awakened by spring's breeze". T▓his "land of dreams" is where I was▓ born and grew up. Nurtured by its p▓leasant weather, Jinan people are naturally gener▓ous, hospitable, joyous, with a special enthusiasm for drinking. This capital of East China's Shandong pro

vince is also known as t▓he "city of springs", with 72 of them dotting the la▓ndscape. While their locations, history, and characteristics have been meticulously documented, Baotu Spring is the most well known. It ranks alongside Qianfo Hill

▓su province, whose h

pulation is an odd lot - they never croak. T▓he story goes that once Qing

emperor Qianlong visited Daming Lake and was impressed by its beauty, marred only by ▓the noisy frogs who disturbed his sleep. The emperor▓ ordered them to keep shut. They did - and have been doing ▓so for generations thereafter. No one as yet come up with a ▓scientific explanation for this unique phenomenon, and so th▓e legend endures. Jinan is also a good place for foreigners to practice their Chinese. The local dialect shares the same pronunci▓ation as Putonghua for almost every ▓Chinese character, but uses different tones. Hence, those still struggling with the