A Buddha shaped pear is displayed at an ... popular because they represent good luck,” Hao told Sina China. Hao said he got the idea from an old Chinese myth about a magic fruit in the shape ...

Xianzhang, who has priced the 10,000 pears he grew in his backyard at 8 dollars per fruit, added that he was inspired by an old Chinese myth about a magical fruit shaped as Buddha, which claimed ...

For Britain's struggling fruit farmers, things could be about to go even more pear-shaped... A Chinese farmer has invented ... People seem to think they are cute or lucky and will buy them as ...

In Chinese the word “li” means both “pear” and “separation.” For this reason, tradition says that to avoid a separation, friends and lovers should not divide a pear. The very shape of ...