Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.

Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of Anglo-America, Eastern Asia ( including China, Korea, and Japan ), Europe, parts of Australia and New Zealand.

One of the most ubiquitous accessories in modern China, after a wallet or purse and an umbrella, is a double-walled insulated glass thermos with tea leaves in the top behind a strainer.

Leaf size is the chief criterion for the classification of tea plants, with three primary classifications being: Assam type, characterized by the largest leaves ; China type, characterized by the smallest leaves ; and Cambod, characterized by leaves of intermediate size.

* September 19 – Hudson Taylor first leaves for China.

* Prince Bei, elder brother of the Khitan Emperor, leaves for China.

* During the Ming Dynasty, a large failure of the harvest in Henan province, China occurs due to excessive rainfall, which drives up the price of wheat and forces many to flee their rural counties ; those who stay behind are forced to survive by eating leaves, bark, and human flesh.

Soft bamboo shoots, stems, and leaves are the major food source of the giant panda of China, the red panda of Nepal and the bamboo lemurs of Madagascar.

The Chinese have long used the bark of Magnolia officinalis, a magnolia native to the mountains of China with large leaves and fragrant white flowers, as a remedy for cramps, abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, and indigestion.

The pericarp ( hull or husk ) is the part that is most often used, but the leaves of various species are used as well in some regions of China.

Lucy ( Lillian Gish ) and Cheng ( Richard Barthelmess ) Cheng Huan ( Richard Barthelmess ) leaves his native China because he " dreams to spread the gentle message of Buddha to the Anglo-Saxon lands.

Pueraria montana is native to Southeast Asia, primarily subtropical and temperate regions of China, Japan, and Korea, with trifoliate leaves composed of three leaflets.

The Grand Canal of China enters Shandong from the northwest and leaves on the southwest.

Since 1993, the President has also been the General Secretary of CPC who is generally responsible for establishing general policy and direction of the state and leaves responsibility for the implementation details to the Premier of the People's Republic of China, the head of government.

This species, native to China, is deciduous, with broad, stiff leaves.

– Chinese sassafras or Tzumu, central and southwestern China, it differs from S. albidum in the leaves being more frequently three-lobed, the lobes having a tapered acuminate apex ( not rounded to weakly acute ).

Because of the leaves, they are sometimes confused with the tung tree ( Vernicia fordii ) in the southern U. S., or the invasive Paulownia tomentosa imported from China.

It is also used as a tenderizer in the crust of baked Cantonese moon cakes, and in lye-water " zongzi " ( glutenous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves ), in chewy southern Chinese noodles popular in Hong Kong and southern China, and in Japanese ramen.

Glass tea pot containing mint leaves, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China

The most distinct is the Sumatran Yew ( T. sumatrana, native to Sumatra and Celebes north to southernmost China ), distinguished by its sparse, sickle-shaped yellow-green leaves.

During the 18th and 19th century, silk traders from China traveling to the Middle East packed their silk cloth with dried patchouli leaves to prevent moths from laying their eggs on the cloth.

The items displayed include a section of the Great Wall of China, fragments of the Mayan pyramids, leaves from the sacred Bo tree, water from the Nile and Ganges Rivers, a Revolutionary War button, pieces of the 15th Street Stuyvesant building, a report card of a student who studied in the old building, and fragments of monuments from around the world, various chemical compounds, and memorabilia from each of the 88 years ' history of the 15th Street building.

The naval history of China stems back to the Spring and Autumn Period ( 722 BC – 481 BC ) of the ancient Chinese Zhou Dynasty.

The early " Little Flock " designation stems from a hymnal used by many of the local churches in China titled " Hymns for the Little Flock.

It is native to China, and is an annual plant, growing to 20 – 80 cm tall with branched stems.

What is generally identified as the Japanese aesthetic stems from ideals of Taoism, imported from China in ancient times.

It is now very rare in the wild, and its use as a grain has completely disappeared in China, though it continues to be cultivated for its stems.

In modern-day central China, specifically Hubei Province, the stems of this wormwood are used as food in a salad-like form.

The legal status of Republic of China ( commonly known as Taiwan ) is a controversial issue which stems from the complex post-Second World War history of Taiwan.

The speculation stems from a, mostly, Afrocentric theory suggesting that the first inhabitants of China must have descended directly from some of the first waves of sub-Saharan migrants out of Africa.

For every person on Taiwan, there are sixty in Mainland China.

These continuing pressures, social, economic and military, are doing much to keep China in a heightening state of tension.

But he -- and all of China -- wears the scars of American indecisiveness, and he knows what an uncertain ally we are.

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

Chief among the seed crops grown primarily for industrial uses are the oil-bearing seeds -- flax, castor, tung ( nuts from the China wood-oil tree ), perilla ( from an Oriental mint ), and oiticica ( from a Brazilian tree ).

The people hardest hit by this suspicion are, of course, Christians on the mainland of China.

The only other regions so blessed are the British Isles, western Europe, eastern China, southern Chile and parts of Japan, New Zealand and Tasmania.

Many companies are coming into the country from China and surrounding nations to help improve road surfaces.

It was the mutual bond and obligation between monarch and subjects, whereby subjects are called his liege subjects, because they are bound to obey and serve him ; and he is called their liege lord, because he should maintain and defend them ( Ex parte Anderson ( 1861 ) 3 El & El 487 ; 121 ER 525 ; China Navigation Co v Attorney-General ( 1932 ) 48 TLR 375 ; Attorney-General v Nissan 1 All ER 629 ; Oppenheimer v Cattermole 3 All ER 1106 ).

They are especially numerous in tropical and subtropical regions ( notably Central America, eastern Brazil, the Andes, the Mediterranean, southern Africa, central Asia, and southwestern China ).

The principal abalone farming regions are China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.

The true alligators are today represented to two species, A. mississippiensis in the southeastern United States, which can grow to 4. 24 m ( 14 ft ) and weigh 1000 lbs ( 454. 5 kg ) and the small A. sinensis in the Yangtze River, People's Republic of China, which grows to an average of 1. 5 m ( 5 ft ).

The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

These names make it evident that the American broccoli, carrot, and onion are not indigenous to China and therefore are less common in the cuisines of China.

Since tomatoes are New World plants, they are also fairly new to China and Chinese cuisine.

* Chop suey sandwich – Sandwich of chicken chop suey on a hamburger bun ( North Shore of Massachusetts – the only known remaining restaurants serving this specialty are " Genghis Salem ", " Salem Lowe " ( Salem ), and the newly opened " China Roma " restaurant on Revere Beach, ( Revere, Massachusetts ).

The islands ' many caves, such as those at Chalis Ek are nesting grounds for the Edible-nest Swiftlet, whose nests are prized in China for bird's nest soup.