What special meaning does sending apples on Christmas Eve represent

Symbolizing the peace of peace and special meaning.

1, "peace fruit" means peace and good luck, Christmas Eve people send each other "peace fruit" is to pass a good blessing to others. In some Western countries, parents dress up as Santa Claus and put apples and nuts into their children's shoes or socks.

2. In Chinese culture, apples symbolize peace and good fortune, and giving apples means blessing the recipient with peace and security. So the Chinese people also like to eat apples and give apples to the recipients during other festivals, or put apples on the fruit plate to increase the festive atmosphere.

3, another saying is that the Christmas Eve to send peace fruit, this custom will only appear in China as a country. People take apples as synonymous with peace, so sending apples on Christmas Eve has become a tradition in the country. Receiving apples on Christmas Eve means receiving blessings, and after eating him, it means that you will have a good year in the coming year.

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Origin of giving apples on Christmas Eve

The origin of giving apples on Christmas Eve is said to be the mid-80's, and the giving of apples was initiated by the Wuhan students in Guangzhou, who started to celebrate Christmas under the influence of the expatriate students and teachers at that time, but they interpreted the Christmas festival as a New Year's Day for foreigners. But they interpreted Christmas as the New Year for foreigners, so they added traditional Chinese elements to the holiday, eating apples on Christmas Eve to mean peace and security.

The second theory came from foreign students in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan around the early 1980s. It first appeared in the cities of Guangzhou and Xiamen, when the reform and opening up had just begun, materials were very scarce, people who had the habit of Christmas did not have Christmas dinner, and at that time, the only fruit in December was apples, so they ate apples to celebrate.

The third theory is circulated from the vendors, the mid-1990s, foreign fruits into the Chinese market, to the local fruit impact, the local production of apples appeared to leak the situation, so the sale of apples to sell apple merchants on Christmas Eve to sell apples. So this Chinese tradition of eating apples on Christmas Eve began to emerge in this era.