Sichuan ( spelled Szechuan in the once common Postal Romanization ), is a style of Chinese cuisine originating in the Sichuan Province of southwestern China famed for bold flavors, particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting from liberal use of garlic and chili peppers, as well as the unique flavour of the Sichuan peppercorn ( 花椒, huājiāo ) and zhitianjiao ( 指天椒, zhǐtiānjiāo ).

The earliest known depiction of a gun is a sculpture from a cave in Sichuan, dating to the 12th century that portrays a figure carrying a vase-shaped bombard, firing flames and a ball.

Deng was born into an ethnically Hakka Han family in Paifang village ( 牌坊村 ), Xiexing township ( 协兴镇 ), Guang ' an County in Sichuan province, approximately 160 km from Chongqing ( formerly spelled Chungking ).

The earliest depiction of a firearm is a sculpture from a cave in Sichuan, China.

In 1942, Jiao Juyin directed the play in a Confucian temple in Sichuan Province, to which the government had retreated from the advancing Japanese.

There were reports that Sichuan Tengzhong might pursue the purchase of the Hummer brand from GM by purchasing it privately through the company's new J & A Tengzhong Fund SPC, a private equity investment fund owned by an offshore entity that was recruiting private investors to buy into its acquisition plan.

Speakers of forms of Mandarin other than the standard typically refer to the variety they speak by a geographic name — for example Sichuan dialect, Hebei dialect or Northeastern dialect, all being regarded as distinct from the standard language.

The effective population size of the Sichuan population is larger and more stable than that of the Yunnan population, implying a southward expansion from Sichuan to Yunnan.

The main origins of the migrants are Anhui ( 29. 0 %), Jiangsu ( 16. 8 %), Henan ( 8. 7 %), and Sichuan ( 7. 0 %) provinces, and 79 % are from rural areas.

Szechuan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, or Szechwan cuisine ( or ) is a style of Chinese cuisine originating from Sichuan province in southwestern China.

It has bold flavours, particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting from liberal use of garlic and chilli peppers, as well as the unique flavour of the Sichuan pepper.

Traditional Chinese food can be found in Taiwan, alongside Fujian and Hakka-style as well as native Taiwanese dishes, includes dishes from Guangdong, Jiangxi, Chaoshan, Shanghai, Hunan, Sichuan and Beijing.

Also found in Sichuan, from the late Han dynasty ( c 25 – 220 CE ) is another tree of life.

** Sichuan pepper, produced from the fruit of several Zanthoxylum species

* Only 4 of 58 districts in Sichuan, China, are captured from the Southern Song by the Mongols under Ögedei.

The highest species diversity is found in the Himalayas from Uttarakhand, Nepal and Sikkim to Yunnan and Sichuan, with other significant areas of diversity in the mountains of Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

* Sichuan earns its independence from China.

Besides employing Xianbei and other Chinese ethnic groups for the fight against Chen, Emperor Wen also employed the service of aborigines from southeastern Sichuan, a people that Sui had recently conquered.

In 588 CE, the Sui had amassed 518, 000 troops along the northern bank of the Yangtze River, stretching from Sichuan to the Pacific Ocean.

* Winter – Sima Yan, Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, launches the Jin offensive and attacks along the Yangzi River from Jianye to Jiangling whilst the Sichuan fleet sails downriver to the Jing province.

So it is absent in the dry regions of Mongolia from 44 – 46 ° N southward, in China westward of Sichuan and in India north of the Himalaya.

* 1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9, 000 people.

* 2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.

* Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, prefecture in Sichuan, China

** Aba County, county in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, China

Born into a peasant background in Guang ' an, Sichuan, China, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he was influenced by Marxism-Leninism.

* Da County, in Sichuan, China

The giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuan province, but also in the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.

* In the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China, IKEA Beijing sold an alligator toy for 40 yuan ( US $ 5. 83, € 3. 70 ) with all income going to the children in the earthquake struck area

* 1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100, 000 in the Sichuan province of China.

It is also grown in other areas of China, including Sichuan.

* 2008 – An earthquake ( measuring around 8. 0 magnitude ) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69, 000 people.

It is also encountered in some regions of Yunnan and Sichuan regions of China, among the Mosuo people in China, and in some sub-Saharan African such as the Maasai people in Kenya and northern Tanzania and American indigenous communities.

Biston betularia is found in China ( Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan,

Its range includes southern Tibet, Sikkim and Assam in India, Bhutan, the northern mountains of Burma, and in southwestern China, in the Hengduan Mountains of Sichuan and the Gongshan Mountains in Yunnan.

Tibetans live in the Tibet autonomous region, Qinghai, Western Sichuan, Gansu and Northern Yunnan provinces in China and in Ladakh in the Kashmir region of Pakistan and India, while Manipuris, Mizo, Naga, Tripuri, Idu Mishmis, and Garo live in Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Meghalaya states of India.

In ancient China, sieges of city walls ( along with naval battles ) were portrayed on bronze ' hu ' vessels, like those found in Chengdu, Sichuan in 1965 which have been dated to the Warring States Period ( 5th century BC to 3rd century BC ).

An archaeological discovery in the 1990s was of a sacrificial pit at Sanxingdui in Sichuan, China.

** The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China creates a new Chongqing Municipality, out of part of Sichuan.

Deng's ancestors can be traced back to Meixian County in Guangdong Province, a prominent ancestral area for the Hakka people, and had been settled in Sichuan for several generations.

* 1024 – The world's first paper-printed money can be traced back to the year 1024, in Sichuan province of Song Dynasty China.

Concerning the late 8th century Helanshan Buddhism, little can be said: the doctrines of the lu （ 律 ） school and the teaching of Sichuan Chan of Rev.

These works helped improve the economy of southwestern China and can be credited with beginning the history of economic activity in Sichuan.

Moreover, The Sky Pearl Club members can ' earn and burn ' mileage on the partnered Sichuan Airlines and China Airlines ' flights.

Historical lineages can be documented to 1, 500 years ago to Sichuan province.

A 60-year-old grandmother from Sichuan who was as laborer on a construction site in Shanghai told the Los Angeles Times, " If you're willing to work, you can get a job here even if you're old.

According to Peter Hessler ( Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker and former Peace Corps teacher ), " In most parts of Sichuan, you can walk into a restaurant and order chaoshou without making a sound.

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