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Every culture celebrates different things on different cultures. Chinese

people eat sweets on the new year to celebrate the new year and

some sweets are tradition and culture, other countries eat sweets too!

I guess it's mostly popular as a celebration.

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They don't. It's not a tradition to eat apples on Chinese New Year.

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