Chinese New Year is a time for huge celebrations and family gatherings.
In Asia, they have a week off and many people take additional time off to travel back to their home village to celebrate with extended family.
Traditionally it's 2 weeks of celebration.
It's very festive in Asia but here in Canada, we do what we can.
Close to the time of New Year, you'll see lots of New Year stuff on sale, ranging from food to decorations.
Food is very very important and everything we eat has meaning behind it!
The meaning is derived from the way the name of the food sounds like (sometimes they even come up with special names just to be used around the celebration). And that brings us to Tangerines.
Tangerines usually go up in price around New Year for this reason. It's considered one of the "New Year" food and everyone buys it, so price goes up. Why do we eat Tangerine?
Well, there's a specific Tangerine that is called 桔. 桔 is Luck!
Luck is very very important in Chinese New Year.
So if you want luck, you must get the fruits and have them in your house to bring you luck.
There's usually another name I call the tangerines by which sounds like "Gold" in Chinese but my mom says 桔 is slightly smaller.
Either way, both the fruits work during New Years because it sounds good when you say the name.
So how can you tell if it's the right one? Usually there's special New Year packaging on the fruit so it'll be hard to miss.
I wish you all good luck for the new year.
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