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Bouea macrophylla, commonly known as gandaria or plum mango or mango plum in English, is a species of flowering plant native to Southeast Asia. The tree belongs to the family Anacardiaceae which also includes mango and cashew .
Singer Fei Yu-ching in 2012 Plum trees in winter "Yi Jian Mei" (Chinese: 一剪梅; pinyin: Yī jiǎn méi; lit. 'One Trim of Plum Blossom'), [a] also commonly referred to by its popular lyrics "Xue hua piao piao bei feng xiao xiao" (Chinese: 雪花飄飄 北風蕭蕭; pinyin: Xuěhuā piāopiāo běi fēng xiāoxiāo; trans. "Snowflakes drifting, the north wind whistling"), is a 1983 Mandopop ...
Thereafter, Wang began a career as a freelance artist in places like Nanjing and Suzhou, [4] specialising in plum and bamboo [3] paintings that would be accompanied by Wang's poetry. [4] To Wang, plum blossoms "metaphorised his lonely stand in a barbarian-ruled world". [5] He had several sobriquets, including "Zhushi Shannong" (煮石山農). [6]
In the S'gaw Karen language, this is known as nya-u-htee (S'gaw Karen: ညၣ်အူထံ). The ngapi (either fish or shrimp, but mostly whole fish ngapi is used) is boiled with onions, tomato, garlic, pepper and other spices. [11] The result is a greenish-grey broth-like sauce, which makes its way to every Burmese dining table.
Thingyan rice is infused with water and commonly served with a salad of cured salted fish, which is blanched and fried with onions, along with sour mango or marian plum. [1] [2] The dish is then garnished with roasted chili peppers. [3] Although Thingyan rice originates from the Mon people, it is now commonly prepared throughout Lower Burma. [4]
The Chinese celebrated the pine, bamboo and plum together, for they observed that unlike many other plants these plants do not wither as the cold days deepen into the winter season. [2] Known by the Chinese as the Three Friends of Winter , they later entered the conventions of Korean , Japanese , and Vietnamese culture.
The plant is known by a number of different names in English, including Chinese plum [2] and Japanese apricot. An alternative name is ume or mume. [2] Another alternative name is mei. [13] [17] The flower is known as the meihua (梅花) in Chinese, which came to be translated as "plum blossom" [18] or sometimes as "flowering plum". [19]
' marian plum salad ') – a salad made with sour marian plums and dried shrimp [17] Ngapyawbu thoke (ငှက်ပျောဖူးသုပ်; lit. ' banana flower salad ' ) – a salad of cooked banana flowers , peanuts, and sesame seeds [ 1 ]