Why are the mandarins associated with the New Year?
Why are the mandarins associated with the New Year?
Even in the USSR, an integral part of the New Year wasmandarin. And now people do not celebrate this magical holiday without a sunny fruit. Why did Mandarin become one of the main components of the New Year?
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Mandarin is an evergreen treeheight from 3 to 10 meters. The fruits of this plant mature very long, more than 6 months, but at one time from a tree you can collect a couple of hundred fruits. To date, the main suppliers of mandarins to Russia from near abroad countries are Abkhazia and Georgia, and from distant countries - Morocco, China. It was in China that the fetus came up with a name - the fact is that once here people with prosperity were called mandarins. Since the orange fruits in those days could afford only the rich, they were called mandarins.
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Also in China, there was an idea to celebrate the New Year withtangerines. It happened more than 1000 years ago. During the holiday the Chinese came to the guests and brought with them some fruits, thereby wanting the owners of prosperity, and leaving, received 2 mandarin back to the road. Consequently, the desire for a rich life was completely mutual.
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There is an opinion that these citrus fruits wereone of the few delicacies that ripened in December and was delivered from Abkhazia to the Soviet Union. Other sources say that it was not until 1960 that Russian people began to associate mandarins with the New Year, as at that time a dry cargo ship arrived in Leningrad filled with boxes of orange fruit. After that, annually ripened mandarins were brought to the Soviet Union in December.
