The pomegranate was accorded sacred attributes originally in the ancient West. After coming to China it gradually attracted an array of symbolic implications, the chief ones being many children and good fortune, which in fact are similar to the views of the ancient Persians, who saw it as a symbol of fertility.
石榴在古代西方，本有「聖果」的含義，傳入中國後，又逐漸發展出一套對石榴的人生寓意，主要是代表「子福」。其實這與波斯人視為豐穰多產的象徵，仍然是相通的。