By morning, the view outside the window once more was of the mist and yellow earth of China's heart, as the train dipped south.

Mrs. Bustamonte threw in a pinch of the yellow earth.

He says: "There are many colours on earth: red, green, blue, yellow.

He shivered and laid his forehead on his arm, bracing himself against the bank of yellow earth.

"I thought I was the only person on God's earth who wore bright yellow."

It appears that she created the first men by patting yellow earth together.

He was screaming now, watching the yellow earth rushing up at him, trying to stay conscious.

East Linxia was described as a land of "thorns and yellow earth".

A few minutes later she returned, still naked, but with a crumbling lump of yellow earth in her hand.

Its nickname is "Land of the yellow earth."