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New Year's money is generally a red envelope given by elders. Express not to have anything unlucky happen in the coming year.
As the economic conditions get better and better, the traditional meaning of the New Year's money is gradually distorted, and the adults are fighting for face, and the children are beginning to compare who gets more New Year's money. According to a questionnaire survey in 2014, 90 children received a total of 10,000 yuan during the Spring Festival, with an average of about 4,867 yuan per person.
Among them, more than half of the children received a total of between 1,000 and 5,000 yuan. Among the 90 children who participated in the survey, the average annual income of their parents who were civil servants was the highest.
Origin of the custom. New Year's money (called "Lili" in Guangdong), one of the customs of the New Year's Festival, its true origin is not examined, and the legend is to suppress evil spirits. After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve, the elders should give the juniors money to wish them a safe New Year.
New Year's money is the most anticipated gift for children's New Year. New Year's money is said to have originated earlier, but it was really popular nationwide in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
In ancient times, there were two kinds of New Year's money: special money and general money. The special New Year's money is an imitation, its material or copper or iron, the shape or square or long, the money is generally engraved with "auspicious wishes", "Fu Lu Shouxi", "long life 100 years old" and so on. New Year's money, some directly given to the younger generation, and some are placed at the foot of the bed or pillow after the younger generation sleeps.
New Year's money is originally the meaning of blessings. In folk culture, New Year's money means warding off evil spirits and driving away ghosts, and blessing peace.
The original intention of the New Year's money was to suppress evil and drive away evil spirits, because people believed that children were vulnerable to sneaky people, so they used New Year's money to suppress evil spirits.
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I think if you are still young, then most of it belongs to your parents, let your parents give you some control, and the rest can be saved, on the one hand, you don't let yourself spend money extravagantly, on the other hand, you must consciously cultivate your financial management ability, this is too important. If you are older and go to college, then you can use it yourself, and you must be able to manage your finances and distribute it reasonably, if you are more considerate of your family, you can subsidize most of it for your own family and keep some for yourself.
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I feel that the New Year's money is just a form, a form of expressing the love of the elders for the younger generations, and it doesn't need to be too much, let alone compared.
So I thought that the New Year's money should be changed, not canceled. Take the best of it and discard the dross.
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New Year's money is just a form of expressing the love of the elders for the younger generations
But now it seems to have changed a bit.
New Year's money has been around for the elderly, and the elders have passed the younger generation's New Year's money to wish the coming year better
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New Year's money is just a form of expressing the love of elders for underage juniors, and China has always been like this, and it may be changed to New Year's money in the future.
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It is through money to express the blessings of the elders to the younger ones. I hope that the younger generation will be safe and happy for a year.
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Personal opinion: It is one of China's excellent cultural traditions for elders to give their children New Year's money during the Spring Festival, and this traditional custom has existed since ancient times.
New Year's money, as the name suggests, is to press the New Year for children, and red is festive and good luck, and is synonymous with many good wishes; The most traditional way is for the elders to put red packets under the child's pillow on Chinese New Year's Eve, entrusting the elders' good wishes to the child.
Therefore, the New Year's money has become a symbol of the Spring Festival. Now that the foreign festival is slowly integrated into our culture, many people do not know much about traditional customs, and the children of the later generation are even more affected, and giving children New Year's money is to imperceptibly inherit cultural traditions, so that children can better understand Chinese traditional customs, deeply absorb excellent spiritual culture, and get good cultural edification.
The origin of New Year's money is roughly composed of the following aspects:
1. From the elders, grandparents, grandfathers and grandmothers This is the love of the elders for the outsiders, which is understandable, and the ownership should belong to the children.
2. The New Year's money of parents' peers, uncles and aunts, etc.: This part of the New Year's money is worth studying. The uncle gave the nephew 300 yuan, and the uncle also had to give the nephew 300 yuan. A closer look at this seems to be an exchange of rituals, so it is worth studying.
3. New Year's money for neighbors, relatives and friends: roughly the same as the second category.
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There are several ideas about New Year's money. One is counterfeit money. The money was handed over to the parents.
The child thought he got it, but in the end he lost it, but he just had a red envelope in his hand, and he had to say thank you to the seven aunts and eight aunts. The second is pseudo-relationship. This is a manifestation of the hypocrisy of polite greetings in the adult world.
Adults are thinking about how much is appropriate, whether the half-grown children with new jobs should give out red envelopes, giving more pain to the flesh and less pain to the face. The third is auspicious money. Pressing the New Year money is like sticking a couplet and setting off firecrackers to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, just an auspicious symbol of the Spring Festival, don't think too much.
Fourth, compare capital. During the beginning of the school year, students will ask how many red envelopes they received during the Chinese New Year? Then envy the classmates who received huge sums of money, or ask the rich man for a treat.
Fifth, the source of untrustworthiness. Some parents will tell their children that your New Year's money will be kept and will be given to you when you need it. When you want to use it, I will settle accounts with you, and your tuition, books, courses, classes, food, clothing, housing and transportation don't need to cost money?
After the wolf came three times, trust was untenable.
New Year's money is very knowledgeable. What is needed at this time is to teach children about money and how to manage it properly. Different regions have different recognitions of New Year's money, and local customs and habits shall prevail.
Specifically, there are three aspects, the first is to clearly inform the ownership of the New Year's money, and if necessary, it should be supplemented by a contract, and do what it says. Second, teach the child to divide the money in equal parts. Third, teach children to spend the money they can use reasonably, distinguish between what they want and what they need, and learn to keep accounts.
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Giving New Year's money is just a custom, which means that I hope to keep the footsteps of the years and always be childish. Generally speaking, most of the people who receive the New Year's money are children or young people, and they are happy. As for the fear that this custom has changed its taste, the reason is not that this custom is bad, but because it has changed with the changes of the times, people's hearts have changed, and there are many ways to bribe, and the New Year's money is just used by these well-intentioned people.
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Useless. How much to collect is about to be sent out, basically maintain a balance, after a year and the same, the funds in hand have not changed much, and I have to laugh shyly and shyly say that I am so big that I can't collect, what a waste of time and a waste of feelings.
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Our New Year's money is just a meaning, basically children will give 100 or 200, and then after junior high school, they will not give, most of them are given by grandparents, uncles and aunts generally give a few times, and then feel that they will give their children red envelopes when they are loved. I think the New Year's money is a good wish, don't care how much.
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It is a heart to give New Year's money, generally 50,100 yuan, sometimes I forget, they are all family members, and it doesn't matter, so the New Year's money is just an appearance, and the family is close, so it doesn't matter how.
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Compared with the custom of giving a lot of money in the north, I prefer the Laisee culture in Guangdong. There is not much money, and the picture is festive and good. During the Chinese New Year, everyone was happy to make fun of Lishi, and they were happy to get 10 yuan a day, how good.
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The New Year's money is to happily accept it, press it under the pillow, and take it out and return it to your parents after the fifteenth day of the first month.
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Often, the New Year's money gives the child the first asset that is not restricted by use and does not have to be reimbursed. This often leads to financial attempts, the establishment of a sense of personal finance, and a partial degree of financial independence, which alleviates the feeling of being controlled by parents, thus establishing a sense of independence and self-control. From this point of view alone, the New Year's money is a good thing.
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New Year's money, or the current big red envelope, is the result of the exchange of gifts and interests -- the so-called 1-5 yuan Guangdong red envelope is the happiness of the party, no matter who the other party is, what relationship with oneself, is not included.
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In fact, it is an exchange of money and favors between adults through children, and in the end there is no profit or loss in a tie, but without this exchange, the relationship will no longer be maintained.
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New Year's money, also known as "New Year's money", "New Year's money", etc., is one of the festivals of the New Year.
The original intention of the New Year's money was to suppress evil and drive away evil spirits. People believe that children are susceptible to sneaky attacks, so they use New Year's money to drive away evil spirits, help children celebrate the New Year safely, and wish children good health and good luck in the new year.
The history of New Year's money began in the Han Dynasty, during the Spring Festival, the elders should give the New Year's money prepared in advance to the younger generations, the most basic principle of how much New Year's money should be given is to do what you can, the most taboo to hit the swollen face and fill the fat, and die to face the crime, because the New Year's money is only a part of the New Year's customs after all, in order to express the expectations of the elders for the younger generations, but also to create a festive atmosphere.
If you invest a lot of money for the sake of face, and eventually lead to an uncomfortable New Year, wouldn't you put the cart before the horse. Therefore, there should be a degree of money to be given for the New Year.
Changes in New Year's money:
The earliest "money" of New Year's money was not the currency circulating in the market, but the auspicious product or evil spirit product specially minted into coins, which was a talisman worn by children. Because "祟" is homophonic with the year, the New Year's money has the witchcraft effect of "disgusting and sneaky".
Since the Song Dynasty, people have used real circulating coins as New Year's money, which was widely popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the elders strung copper money with red thread and gave it directly to the juniors after eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, or placed at the foot of the bed or pillow after the juniors went to sleep. If the snoozing child has fallen asleep, the elders should keep a copy and press it under the side of the pillow.
The next morning, the child woke up and rolled out from under the pillow to a pleasant surprise.
In modern times, it has evolved into a red paper bag of 100 copper coins to give to younger generations, meaning "long life and 100 years old". For the younger generations who have become adults, a silver dollar is placed in the red paper bag, which means "a million profits". After the currency is changed to paper money, the elders like to go to the bank to exchange the new banknotes with the face number connected to the child, wishing the child "succession and prosperity" and "good luck".
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Do you know where the New Year's money comes from? It is the parents who work hard every day, no matter how tired they are, they can earn a little money.
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Personally, I think that the New Year's money has always been auspicious, but now the New Year's money given to children during the New Year has gradually become a means for children to blackmail their parents in disguise.
Huge"New Year's money is also gradually acquiesced by society.
Is this the progress of the times? Or is it the sorrow of society?
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You have to remember one thing, the New Year's money is the money that our parents gave us after a series of reversals. At the end of the day, it's our parents who give it to us. If you want to make sense, buy a shirt for your father and a lipstick for your mother.
A little bit of heart can let your parents know your love.
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Since ancient times, there have been younger generations to pay New Year's greetings to their elders, and the elders have pressed the New Year's money to the younger generations to wish the coming year better. So I feel that the New Year's money is just a form, a form of expressing the love of the elders for the underage, and it doesn't need to be too much, let alone compare.
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New Year's money is just a form, used to express the love of the elders for the younger generations, whether it is more or less is a mind, no need to compare, the atmosphere of the New Year's money to change, to take its essence, abandon its dross.
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The Spring Festival red envelope is actually the New Year money, which is usually distributed by the elders to the juniors after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, indicating that blessings and good distance are brought to them.
To this day, it is a traditional custom to give red envelopes during the Spring Festival, and red envelopes are not only distributed by the elders to the younger generations, but also given by the younger generations to the elders, which means wishing the elders health and longevity.
At the same time, red envelopes also exist between friends, but often the amount of such red envelopes is relatively small, just like "courtesy is light and affectionate", mainly to celebrate to express their hearts to each other, as well as to bring out a strong New Year's flavor.
Not averse. New Year's money has a good meaning, it is said that New Year's money can suppress evil spirits, and the younger generation can spend a year of peace and security when they get the New Year's money.
Now some people are disgusted with the New Year's money, mainly because now the standard of living has improved, the gap between people and people is getting bigger and bigger, and the situation of each family is not the same, and many problems that are different from the past emerge one after another, often making trouble unpleasant, and the gains of the New Year outweigh the losses.
It is a little bit of heart to give more and less New Year's money, and the New Year's money is generally sent to children by the elders, and the children are very happy to receive the New Year's money. In the past, there were five or ten yuan of New Year's money, and now the New Year's money is less than 1200 yuan, and more than 10,000 yuan
With the advancement of the two-child policy, there has been an imbalance between one-child families and two-child families, I want to say that the New Year's Day, everyone is trying to be auspicious, happy, give more and give less, do what they can, tolerate each other more, understand each other, and try to press the amount of New Year's money Zheng Oak is equal, after all, whose money is not blowing in the wind, right? Everyone still values harmony, and everything is prosperous!
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