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Every year, over the autumn and winter months, this district in China’s southeast Guangzhou province fills with the scent of drying tangerine peels, or chenpi. For some locals, it’s the smell of gold.

It ushers in the Year of the Snake, a symbol of wisdom and transformation ... Crescent-shaped dumplings also resemble ancient Chinese tael, a unit of currency, so the dumplings represent wealth ...

And just like the precious metal, some of those peels can be worth enormous amounts of money. Xinhui is located ... creations can help introduce the ancient Chinese ingredient to a wider ...

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Lucky money, dragon and lion dances and the crackle of firecrackers marked the start of the Lunar New Year, which took place ...

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If you were born in the Year of the Snake, (1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, and 2013), people may find you intelligent, wise, and mysterious. They are also said to be determined, caring, and ...