Assertion: pomegranate | /r/AtLocation | china
Facets:
value: in the tang dynasty
type: TEMPORAL
value: via the silk road
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Introduced to China during the Han Dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), the pomegranate (Chinese: 石榴; pinyin: shíliu) in olden times was considered an emblem of fertility and numerous progeny.
text: Pomegranate was introduced to China during the Tang Dynasty (ad 618–907) via the Silk Road (Bretschneider, 1935 ; McColl, 1991 ), and has been cultivated widely since then.
text: The article says that the pomegranate was introduced to China in the Tang dynasty, but no citation is provided.