The artichoke is the large flower bud of a type of thistle native to the Mediterranean region. It was likely developed from the cardoon which has small buds and whose base and stems were eaten in ancient Greece.he artichoke is the large flower bud of a type of thistle native to the Mediterranean region. It was likely developed from the cardoon which has small buds and whose base and stems were eaten in ancient Greece.
Sichuan Province. Located in the upper reaches of the Changjiang (Yangtze) River in the southwest part of China, it is bounded by Shaanxi, Gansu,Qinghai,Yunnan, Guizhou, Xizang(Tibet) and Chongqing Municipality, and has long been known as a land of plenty or Heaven on Earth for its abundance of products.Area: about 480000km2.Sichuan has a varied topography. Mountainous areas occupy its west, and Sichuan Basin and its peripheral highlands predominate in the east. The relief of the eastern region is in sharp contrast to that of the west.he precipitation is lower in the west than in the east. Sichuan has a long history and was once the place of the Ba and Shu States during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, therefore, possessing a great number of cultural relics and historic sites.
Shaanxi, formerly romanized as Shensi, is a province of the People's Republic of China. Officially part of the Northwest China region, it lies in central China, bordering the provinces of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), Ningxia (NW), and Inner Mongolia (N).