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  2. Trees in Chinese mythology and cultural symbology - Wikipedia

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    Trees in Chinese mythology and culture tend to range from more-or-less mythological such as the Fusang tree and the Peaches of Immortality cultivated by Xi Wangmu to mythological attributions to such well-known trees, such as the pine, the cypress, the plum and other types of prunus, the jujube, the cassia, and certain as yet unidentified trees ...

  3. Walnut - Wikipedia

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    A walnut is the edible seed of any tree of the genus Juglans (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, Juglans regia. They are accessory fruit because the outer covering of the fruit is technically an involucre and thus not morphologically part of the carpel; this means it cannot be a drupe but is instead a drupe-like nut.

  4. List of Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of topics in Chinese mythology. Chinese mythology is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature from the area now known as China . Chinese mythology includes many varied myths from regional and cultural traditions.

  5. Trees in mythology - Wikipedia

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    Trees in Indian Art, Mythology, and Folklore, ISBN 81-7305-179-8. Mountfort, Paul Rhys (2003). Nordic Runes: Understanding, Casting, and Interpreting the Ancient Viking Oracle. Inner Traditions / Bear & Company. ISBN 0-89281-093-9. Porteous, Alexander (2002). The Forest in Folklore and Mythology. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-42010-8.

  6. Chinese walnut cookie - Wikipedia

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    It contains carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals such as calcium, potassium, phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, and selenium. [4]Chinese walnut cookie is a high-sugar and high-fat food, long-term consumption will induce obesity, cardiovascular disease and other threats to human health.

  7. Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    Chinese mythology holds that the Jade Emperor was charged with running of the three realms: heaven, hell, and the realm of the living. The Jade Emperor adjudicated and meted out rewards and remedies to saints, the living, and the deceased according to a merit system loosely called the Jade Principles Golden Script (玉律金篇, Yù lǜ jīn piān

  8. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Chinese symbols and motifs are more than decorative designs as they also hold symbolic but hidden meanings which have been used and understood by the Chinese people for thousand of years; they often influenced by nature, which include the fauna, the flora, landscape, and clouds.

  9. Juglans - Wikipedia

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    Walnut trees are any species of tree in the plant genus Juglans, the type genus of the family Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are referred to as walnuts.All species are deciduous trees, 10–40 metres (33–131 ft) tall, with pinnate leaves 200–900 millimetres (7.9–35.4 in), with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnuts (Pterocarya), but not ...