Lucky Money, have you received it during festival? i have it in china.
By laiyongjun
@laiyongjun (1336)
China
June 6, 2007 10:28am CST
hi, good evening everyone.nice to meet you.
have you received lucky money during festival? if you have, what do you think of it?
i come from china, and i have received lunky money from my born day.
in china, children will receive lucky money from parents and relatives during spring festival.hehe, they will get money which is covered by red packet from 10 yuan to 100 yuan or more than.hehe, when i was a child, i like spring festival cause i can get lucky money from my parent.when parents give lucky money to child, the child should say:gong xi fa cai.in english is good luck and fortune to you.maybe i translate it not exactly.
it is a culture of china from generation to generation.
what about you? something like my country happens in your country? what do you think of luck money?
thank you very much.
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3 responses
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
7 Jun 07
The lucky money here is called Ang Pau in Fujian dialect means red packet. This red packet is a red envelope with certain amount of money in it. Of course not the colorful design of the red envelope that counts but the stuff inside that matters haha…
During Chinese New Year Festival on the 1st day of the 1st month of the Chinese lunar calendar children or unmarried adults, no matter how old they are, will be given red packet by their parents or their married elders. For children here the happiest thing during new year festival is the quantity of ang pau received.
There are lots of stories related with red packet which I would like to share with friends here in time to come.
@laiyongjun (1336)
• China
7 Jun 07
thank you for replying.
hehe. by the way, could you tell me where are you from?you are so familar with chinese spring festival culture.
thank you.
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
6 Jun 07
Here in America we don't give our kids lucky money as you call it for celebrations. Some parents might give their child money for a birthday. Usually we give gifts for birthdays and Christmas. A young child might get an Easter basket at Easter time. We have festivals but we don't give our children money for them. We celebrate many different types of festivals such as ethnic and heritage. It is interesting how different our countries are. Thank you for shareing about you spring festivel.
@laiyongjun (1336)
• China
6 Jun 07
thank you for replying.
you are welcome.hehe.different countries have different cultures.hehe.
thank you.
@mummymo (23706)
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8 Jun 07
I have never heard of this tradition before my friend and thank you for sharing it, I found it fascinating to read about! We don't have anything like that here in Scotland! I have been wracking my brains for traditions involving money and this is the only one I can think of at the moment! When a couple are getting married the brides father and the groom when they are leaving their homes to go to the ceremony are supposed to fling coins which all the children scramble after and collect - it is called a 'scramble'! It isn't as common now but when I was young all the children knew about every upcoming wedding in the area and would wait outside the house of the bride or groom in great anticipation! xxx
