Dessert:
Good fortune fruit
Certain fruits are eaten during the Spring Festival, especially tangerines and pomelos. Round in shape and golden in color, these fruits are believed to bring abundance to the family, while their pronunciations also sound lucky to Chinese people.
In Chinese, tangerine (桔, ju) sounds similar to the Chinese word for luck (吉, ji), while the Chinese for pomelo (柚, you) sounds like the word for “again” (又, you), thus eating both fruits means continuous prosperity and good luck.
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