Timeline for "A pair of mandarin oranges" as a homophone of "the gold"
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| Jul 11, 2014 at 19:52 | vote | accept | Be Brave Be Like Ukraine | ||
| Jan 31, 2014 at 16:48 | answer | added | neubau | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 8:46 | comment | added | xqMogvKW | Hello: As far as I see from the network, the habit comes from GuangDong (ShanTou province), because a pair of madarin oranges mean (大吉,great lucky in GuangDong,Shantou), and they tend to send a pair of oranges for lucky. But I don't know about the habit having anything to do with money (the gold). | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 7:45 | comment | added | user3410 | In Cantonese, the two characters definitely sound similar. Note that the last "consonant" on the Cantonese romanization actually isn't as "stressed" as it might be in English or another language (though part of it might be my occasionally inaccurate Cantonese pronunciation). | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 7:32 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackChinese/status/429155163828682752 | ||
| Jan 31, 2014 at 5:02 | comment | added | Ethan Fang | Orange is golden color but I have never heard people give mandarin oranges to each other to celebrate the New Year. | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 2:22 | comment | added | 杨以轩 | It is due to the colour more than anything else. | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 1:23 | history | asked | Be Brave Be Like Ukraine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |