What is the custom of red envelopes?

Sending "red envelopes" is the custom of Chinese New Year. China people like red because it symbolizes vitality, happiness and good luck. ?

Giving red envelopes to underage children (according to the concept of China, married people are considered adults) means bringing them wishes and good luck. The money in a red envelope is just to make children happy. Its main meaning is in red paper, because it symbolizes good luck. Therefore, it is impolite to open red envelopes in front of the elders who issued them. ?

The custom of giving lucky money in new year's red envelopes

In the Spring Festival, what children like best is to get red envelopes from adults, commonly known as "lucky money" and "Chinese New Year money". During the New Year in ancient China, adults strung 100 copper coins with red ropes to children, hoping that they would live longer. Because "old" and "special" are homophonic, they can kill ghosts, and also bribe ghosts to children, so as to turn evil into good luck and spend the coming year safely, so they are called "lucky money".

"100,000 yuan grew in the colored thread, and then it was collected from the pillow to discuss the price of firecrackers, which made Joule busy all night." Poets in Qing Dynasty described it in the poem "Lucky Money". Because copper coins and red ropes do not meet the requirements of the times, they have not been replaced by paper money and red envelopes, and they have become familiar red envelopes. Nowadays, there are not only lucky money red envelopes, but also welfare red envelopes issued by the company. Thank others for their red envelopes.

Giving out red envelopes is a custom for us to celebrate the Spring Festival. Red represents happiness, good luck and auspiciousness. Generally, elders give it to unmarried minors, and you can have as much money as you want, such as 6 yuan, 60 yuan, 66 yuan, 166 yuan, etc. But it is impolite to open a red envelope in front of the elders and you should tell the children.

Some parents secretly put them under their children's pillows on New Year's Eve and give them a surprise on the first day of the new year to make them happy for a year. In the south, especially in Guangzhou, people call red envelopes "Li". In the Qing Dynasty, people wrapped copper coins with a square piece of red paper and named it "Li". The first generation of red envelopes came out at the end of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, when printing technology began to be widely used.