Blackberry winter

— Literary critic Joseph R. Millichap in Robert Penn Warren: A Study of the Short Fiction (1992)[4] In East Asia and Vietnam, the blackberry winter is known as Miss Ban's Winter (Chinese: 小班冷, Vietnamese: Rét Nàng Bân, Korean: 꽃샘추위), as it associated with an ancient folk tale of Miss Ban, a young daughter of the Jade Emperor who is hard-working but clumsy.

She falls down crying, and the Jade Emperor, touched by her will, decides to return the cold for a week to allow her husband to wear the clothes of Miss Ban.

"Blackberry Winter" is the name of a frequently anthologized short story from 1946 by Robert Penn Warren.

This became a back-door million-seller as the B-side of Mitch Miller's recording of The Yellow Rose of Texas, a number 1 hit in the U.S. in 1955.

[10] Blackberry Winter is also the name of a 2006 short film directed by Brent Stewart about a cannibal clown in the antebellum South.