Where did the earliest profit seal originate?

The earliest Li Feng originated in China in the late Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty.

It is a traditional custom in China to pay dividends during the Chinese New Year. "Li" is also called "or", which means to benefit the market and good luck, that is, lucky money, which is a bag containing lucky money.

Now the common profit seal, in fact, is only a few decades of history, so far there is no profit seal in the early Qing Dynasty.

In ancient times, every holiday, a piece of red paper was cut into small squares, and then the copper wallet was wrapped in red paper and sealed as a profit. So today, many old people still regard "red paper" as a synonym for profit.

The first generation of Li was sealed at the end of Guangxu, and it didn't come out until the popularity of printing. At that time, the seal was printed on red paper with yellow ink, and then coated with gold powder before the ink was dry, which looked like gold words were printed on red paper. In addition to auspicious words, some are also equipped with simple patterns.

In the early 1930s, color printing and lithograph printing appeared for the first time, with auspicious New Year pictures such as sailing boats and Fu Lushou printed on them. The advantage of bronzing fonts is that seals didn't appear until the sixties. However, the bronzing of "Hundred Family Names, Li Weiyin" became popular in the 1970s. In addition, in the 1960s and 1970s, major companies began to print profit envelopes for their customers, so as to obtain publicity effects.