Icy weather offers warming treats

Frost decorates a flower in Huai'an, Jiangsu. Numerous black crows flew back to their nests in the evening, while countless white egrets flew back and forth on Jinjiang River, marking a sharp contrast in color," he says. In 1976, an ice store was discovered at the original site of Yongcheng, Qin State from the Spring and Autumn Period, in today's Shaanxi province, which could hold 190 cubic meters of ice. As the days are short and the nights are long during daxue, various handicraft workshops and household handcrafting began at night during the Song Dynasty, in which the capitalist mode of production started to prevail. In order to meet this demand, various restaurants and food stalls also opened during night hours back then, the earliest record and the origin of the modern midnight restaurants.