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* Fragrant twigs of silver birch are used in saunas to relax the muscles.
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After surveying a number of different locations, Pei fell in love with a valley once used as an imperial garden and hunting preserve, known as Fragrant Hills.
Whereas 200 or so workers might have been used for a similar building in the US, the Fragrant Hill project employed over 3, 000 workers.
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He returned to China for the first time in 1974 to design a hotel at Fragrant Hills, and designed a skyscraper in Hong Kong for the Bank of China fifteen years later.
Pei was surprised by public resistance to his traditional design of the hotel at Fragrant Hills.
The Fragrant Hill Hotel opened on October 17, 1982, but fell into disrepair almost immediately afterwards.
As the Fragrant Hill project was nearing completion, Pei began working on the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, although his associate James Freed served as lead designer.
Although the architect still ached from the experience with Fragrant Hill, he agreed to accept the commission.
Another story from the Precious Scroll of Fragrant Mountain describes an incarnation of Guanyin as the daughter of a cruel king who wanted her to marry a wealthy but uncaring man.
When Chiang penned the work, he believed that the Guanyin we know today was actually a princess called Miaoshan ( 妙善 ), who had a religious following on Fragrant Mountain.
It is said that Yama, the ruler of hell, sent her back to Earth to prevent the utter destruction of his realm, and that upon her return she appeared on Fragrant Mountain.
Another tale says that Miaoshan never died, but was in fact transported by a supernatural tiger, believed to be the Deity of the Place, to Fragrant Mountain.
The monk further suggested that such a person could be found on Fragrant Mountain.
Miaozhuangyan was cured of his illness and went to the Fragrant Mountain to give thanks to the person.
After some decades Guanyin returned to Fragrant Mountain to continue her meditation.
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twigs and birch
* Birch rod, made out of twigs from birch or other trees for corporal punishment
* Birch twigs bound in a bundle, also called birch, were used for birching, a form of corporal punishment.
The Finns also used a vihta ( Western dialect, or vasta in Eastern dialect ), which is a bundle of birch twigs with fresh leaves, to gently slap the skin and create further stimulation of the pores and cells.
Non-animal food is rare, although Goldcrests have been seen drinking sap from broken birch twigs together with tits and nuthatches.
In Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic traditionally, early in the morning boys awake girls by pouring a bucket of water on their head and striking them about the legs with long thin twigs or switches made from willow, birch or decorated tree branches.
A birch rod ( often shortened to " birch ") is a bundle of leafless twigs bound together to form an implement for administering corporal punishment.
Contrary to what the name suggests, a birch rod is not a single rod and is not necessarily made from birch twigs, but can also be made from various other strong and smooth branches of trees or shrubs, such as willow.
By contrast, terms like " Eton birch " are used for a school birch made from smaller birch tree twigs.
* In Scandinavia, Baltics and Russia but mostly in Finland there is a tradition to strike one's own body with soaked birch twigs in the sauna as a form of massage and to increase blood circulation and open the pores.
Traditionally the handle is of hazel wood and the head is of birch twigs.
A traditional Wiccan besom is an ash stave handle with bristles made from birch twigs.
Sometimes the term " cat " is used incorrectly to describe various other punitive flogging devices with multiple tails in any number, even one made from 80 twigs ( so rather a limp birch ) to flog a drunk or other offender instead of 80 lashes normally applicable under shariah law.
Commercial methyl salicylate is now synthesized, but in the past, it was commonly distilled from the twigs of Betula lenta ( sweet birch ) and Gaultheria procumbens ( eastern teaberry or wintergreen ).
These butterflies lay eggs in clusters around twigs of their favored food plants, in Europe, generally Grey Willow ( Salix cinerea ) and in North America, generally Black Willow ( Salix nigra ) but also other willow species, as well as poplar, elm, birch, and hackberry.
A layer of twigs from the birch tree may be placed in the bottom of the saucepan instead of a metal steamer, hence the name pinnekjøtt ( literally: stick meat ) which refers to these birch twigs and not to the rather obvious resemblance the ribs have to sticks.
Depiction in the mid 1920s of a rural banya by Russian artist Boris Kustodiev: Russian Venus ( armed with birch twigs )
In the central European Jewish baths Schmeis were used in place of birch twigs: long brushes made of rafia.
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