What is the meaning of tangerines?

In China's coastal areas are popular in the New Year festival to give each other orange custom, this custom is closely linked with the culture of the Chinese nation. In folklore, people are accustomed to write the word orange as the word orange, and the word orange and the word is very similar to the word Ji, New Year's folk with oranges to each other in order to seek good luck, hope that in the new year of good luck, a small orange has also become a talisman of the people.

Usually, when a woman goes to a relative or friend's house to pay a New Year's visit, she has to prepare some red oranges and carry them in a basket as a New Year's gift, and the gifts received in return are all these things.

In Haifeng, Guangdong, juniors pay New Year's greetings to their elders by kowtowing and making a bow, and the elders reward the juniors with money wrapped in red paper or by taking mandarin oranges. As is the custom in all parts of China, the younger generation pays homage to their elders, who naturally want to reward them. As for the food to be given to the younger generation, it is natural to choose items that the children love to eat and that have auspicious meanings, and so tangerines are chosen as this food with special meanings. As for the reward red envelope, the children themselves to buy something they love to eat, love to play, which is later to simplify the procedures and changes, although the meaning is the same, but still not as meaningful as the traditional gift of a tangerine.

In Chaozhou, people call the mandarin oranges, and its harmonic is "Daji", therefore, to the relatives of the New Year's greetings to bring mandarin oranges, the hosts will take their own mandarin oranges and guests brought to the exchange, in order to mutual good will