Have you wondered why in all the countries eat tangerines and oranges on New year's?

Most people can not imagine New year and Christmas without these fragrant fruits. But where did this tradition?

The website you found for two detailed explanations of why we are stocking tangerines and oranges for new year holidays.

Version 1. Fresh fruit in winter was a luxury





In the old days when there were no supermarkets where one can relatively cheaply buy a variety of fruits, the children were more than happy to find in their Christmas stocking, or Mandarin oranges. In wealthy families they even decorated the tree, which after a holiday was given on "looting" the children: they were allowed to pluck the candy, cakes, fruits and other edible decorations.

And even in the twentieth century to the Golden fruit as a gift was considered a great success, especially in the postwar period. In the novel, Shirley Conran's "Lace" is a fragment that illustrates this version: it talks about a girl named Kate who has found the stocking with gifts orange. Her father bought fruit from some sailor in the wild the money, because after the war England was no oranges, no bananas, no ice cream. Kate ate the orange the whole day, savoring each slice, and then another week chewing on the peel.

Version 2. Remember, who was the prototype of Santa Claus





This version is certainly well known to those familiar with the life story of the very first "Santa Claus" — St. Nicholas is especially revered in Christianity as the patron Saint of children. Has reached us of his biography, which was this story.

The father of three daughters could not collect a dowry for them, so I decided to extract income from their beauty, and it would have happened, if not for Saint Nicholas. Being modest, he casually tossed the sack of gold into their house through the chimney or an open window — here the sources differ. According to legend, the gold fell into stockings hung by the fire to dry, where it was found in the morning.

Whereupon the father gave his daughters in marriage, and people have the tradition to hang stockings and put them in Golden oranges or tangerines as a symbol of gold, presented to St. Nicholas.

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See also
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