How Winter Became Possible
Shouguang lost its vegetable trade, built the country's largest wholesale market in 1984, and from 1989 used plastic greenhouses to give China fresh vegetables in winter.
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The Statues Under the Ground
More than two hundred painted Buddhist statues were buried at Qingzhou and later dug up; the city museum, the only first-class museum in a county-level city, holds some of them.
The Town That Was a Province
Qingzhou gave its name to one of the nine provinces of the Book of Documents, and six walled cities have stood on the same ground since the Western Han.
The City That Made a Festival of a Toy
Weifang has flown kites for centuries and has held an international kite festival every April since 1984; in 1988 it declared itself the kite capital.
Paper, Scissors and Ash
Gaomi makes two kinds of paper picture: the small paper-cut, a Jiaodong craft with a delicate local style, and the ash print, listed as national heritage in 2006.
The Village That Printed the Gods
Yangjiabu has cut and printed New Year pictures since the end of the Ming, and is counted with Yangliuqing and Taohuawu among the three great print towns.