Why do northerners (such as Northeastern people) hoard a lot of Chinese cabbage in winter?

Because in the past, if you didn’t stock up on food, you would starve to death, that is, starve to death in a literal sense. Then the police and forensic doctors came to watch and gave the result: "There is no vicious criminal case, this family starved to death."

Since the late 1980s, the monthly income has been no longer in the tens of yuan, there have been more greenhouses, winter vegetables have become cheaper, and there are fewer vegetables to store. My family's weight slowly dropped from 3,000 jins to 2,500 jins, then 1,500 jins, and then 3,500 jins. The size of my vegetable cellar has been shrinking since it was able to accommodate a dozen children. In the end, I dug a shallow pit half a meter deep.

I bought a building two thousand years ago and can no longer dig a cellar to stock up on vegetables. But in winter, I still like to buy a cart of vegetables and put them on the north balcony. Generally, the balcony on the north side will be colder (even if it is closed), it is probably only a few degrees above zero, about the same as a refrigerator.

I didn’t talk about sauerkraut. My family also pickles sauerkraut. I started dealing with the Chinese cabbage after I moved it into my house. At home, I have a piece of granite that weighs more than ten kilograms and has been used for pressure cylinders for more than ten or twenty years.

Because I was mainly talking about why I was stocking up on vegetables, I didn’t talk about sauerkraut. Suddenly I remembered that it was such a “enjoyment” to get sauerkraut in winter. The water was floating in a large tank near zero. Some ice cubes, and then fished out two sauerkraut plants from them...

After eating fresh vegetables, I feel that people are much more energetic, and they no longer look sallow and talk with the corners of their mouths curled up. (So, there is a reason why Northeastern people like to eat raw vegetables)