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Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year Custom: Flowers and Fruits for Spring Festival
Lunar New Year in some areas is also called Spring festival to mark the start of a new season of the new year. It is a custom to have fresh flowers, new blooms or flower buds in the house during the festivity to symbolize a new growth, a rebirth, a new beginning.
The popular flowers to display during Lunar New Year are cherry or peach or plum blossoms to symbolize prosperity, growth, endurance and courage; orchids to symbolize fertility in women, also refinement and classiness; Narcissus flowers coming from the bulbs, if blooms in time, they symbolize good fortune and prosperity.
Fruits for the Lunar New Year carry equal importance as the flowers. Each fruit symbolizes a different meaning. Citric fruits are most popular fruits during this festivity due to their golden color of the fruits. Kumquat plants are potted to bring inside houses for indoor decoration. Kumquat, because of its shape and color, is symbol of happiness. An abundance of kumquats on a potted plant symbolizes richness, fullness in wealth. Pomelos are believed to bring good luck to families who have them displaying during Lunar New Year festivity.
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