For Lunar New Year, Golden Citrus Fruits Bring Blessings and Luck
Close Grace Young’s citrus fruit display for the New Year includes tangerines, oranges, pomelo, a red money envelope and a golden ingot. .Photo: Grace Young To celebrate Lunar New Year—aka Chinese New Year—I always make a fruit centerpiece featuring a pomelo, at least two tangerines, ideally with shiny green leaves attached, and lots of oranges. I also tuck in a red “lucky-money” envelope—more about this in a sec. The Chinese love citrus fruits as much as they love word play, puns and especially homonyms—words that sound like other words....