Regions
The seven large cultural regions of 7Junipers.com:
- China
- Himalayas (Tibet, Nepal, Butan)
- Japan
- Korea
- South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)
- Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Laos, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei)
- West Asia (Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, etc.)
China, Japan, and Korea together comprise East Asia. There are treated separately here for convenience.
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Time: December 11, 2007, 5:03 am
[...] the poinsettia (which they called cuetlaxochitl) was a symbol of purity (rather like the lotus in East Asia). I expect the red color would suggest blood to most ancient Mesoamerican cultures. A [...]