The origin of giving lucky money in Chinese New Year.

Lucky money is a custom of Han nationality, which means to ward off evil spirits and protect peace. The original intention of lucky money is to suppress evil and drive away evil. Because people think that children are vulnerable to furtive attacks, they use lucky money to suppress evil spirits, help children celebrate the New Year safely, and wish them health, luck and peace in the new year.

When visiting the New Year during the Spring Festival, the elders should put the lucky money prepared in advance into red envelopes and distribute it to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "expensive" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money.

Generally, lucky money is given to the younger generation by the elders during the countdown to the New Year, which means lucky money. There are two kinds of lucky money in history, one is given to the elderly by the younger generation. The "year" of this lucky money refers to the age and is intended to expect the elderly to live longer.

The origin of lucky money

During the period of Northern Song Shenzong, a young son of Wang Shao, the vice premier, took an adult to visit Nanchang in the street, only to be taken away by the bad guys and wanted to extort a sum of money from Wang Shao. I happened to meet a passing imperial car when I was running away. Nan Chang shouted for help, and the bad guys put Nan Chang down and ran away. Later, when Song Shenzong learned about it, he gave Nanxun some money to calm him down. Since then, "lucky money" has spread among the people.