英作文問題 Essay for academic class

Imagine as we are making an approach day by day towards the end of the year and the new year, your American friend living in Japan asked the most auspicious thing in Japan is Mt.Fuji. 一富士二鷹三茄子 In the first dream in a new year, the most auspicious thing to appear in the dream is Mt.Fuji, then Hawk, then egg plants. Why?
How would you answer that?