年年大吉

Catfish shares the same pronunciation with year and two catfish together mean year on year. Orange shares the same pronunciatioon with good fortune and a large orange means extremely good fortune. The objects conbined mean great fortune year after year. As an object of good fortune, historical records say that in the Song dynasty, only the empress was permitted to eat gold oranges which explains why oranges are often used to mean good fortune in images of good luck. Leopards are animals of bravery and leopard images were worn by Qing military officials on their costumes. In the past, leopard tail referred to wages and honor and military art was called leopard strategies. Leopard shares the same pronunciation as announcement and, combined with the happiness sound in magpies, means announcement of happy news. as birds of good luck that bring good news, magpies are darling birds.