Seasons of China Episode 18: First Frost

Around the 23rd of October of the year, the last autumn solar term ’First Frost’ arrives. Temperatures begin to fall, moisture in the air turns to frost. For the solar term, the harvest of persimmon has to be in this season. In this episode, Johnson-Hill introduces how to make persimmon cakes during this solar term at Fuping county in central Shaanxi Province. Experience the process of making frosty persimmon cakes from the very beginning of the process “selecting“ to the last step “bedding“.