Apple, a common, everyday fruit, has become a business opportunity for Chinese businessmen during Christmas.
Apples with pictures of cute messages or packed in beautiful boxes could sell for 10 to 20 yuan each during Christmas while the most expensive one could reach as much as 500 yuan.
Modern Express, a newspaper in Nanjing city, reported that a fruit businessman in Nanjing could earn 2,000 yuan in one day by selling such apples.
Christmas Eve is also called "ping an ye", while "ping an" means safety and peace, in China. The apple, pronounced "ping guo" in Chinese, is also called "ping an guo" when it is sold during Christmas. With this reason, people in China often give apples to each other as giving it means wishing safety and peace.
A thousand people have a 1,000 ways to celebrate Christmas Eve. Christmas, as a western festival is become more and more popular in China, people have their own ways to celebrate it. On Dec 24, 2014, students in an art college in Shandong sold the apples painted with pictures to raise money for a charity that will give away the money to the children in rural areas.
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