With the weather getting colder, wintersweet flowers at the Slender West Lake scenic area in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu province have come into full bloom, emitting their delicate fragrance and infusing the frigid air with life.

Gaoyou, a county-level city of Yangzhou, East China’s Jiangsu province, was built in the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) and is located on the north side of the Yangtze River.

If you’re a local resident or paying Yangzhou a visit, then there are numerous fun activities to keep yourself occupied at the weekend. Here’s a rundown of some interesting ways to spend the weekend in Yangzhou.

The fragrance of wintersweet flowers is now spreading throughout the frigid air at Yangzhou's Geyuan Garden, adding some color to the dead of winter.

The year-end tradition of preserving meat is still very popular in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, where residents hang up strings of cured meat and sausages in their backyards to catch the winter sun and wind.