During Chinese New Year, one can find the small pumpkin-type fruit being sold at the markets and supermarkets. It is used as decorations or offerings to be put on the altars for the deities. In Feng Shui, the pumpkin is a fruit which symbolizes tremendous prosperity and abundance. Some Chinese say that the pumpkin draws earth energy to manifest gold. Taoists housewives would place the fruit to worship the Earth Wealth God. The pumpkin also has the power to bring great descendants luck to a family.
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