Chinese New Year Money
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Chinese new year money. For acquaintances and coworkers you can dole out around 10 50 cny. Red envelopes also called red packets lucky money or hongbao in chinese are a popular monetary gift given on some important occasions or festivals in china and some other asian countries especially widely seen during the chinese new year spring festival. If it is really necessary the house owner should start the sweeping from outside to inside of the house which intimates collecting money.
For immediate family and close relatives new year s money can range from 200 1000 chinese yuan cny depending on how close you are. For the northern regions of china dumplings are featured prominently in meals celebrating the festival. Chinese new year officially begins on february 12th 2021 and ends on february 22nd.
It is a chinese new year gift with money stuffed into red paper to kids. Chinese new year traditional chinese. Every lunar new year it s a tradition in chinese and other southeast asian societies to gift a red packet or envelope called hóngbāo in mandarin filled with a monetary gift.
Hóng bāo are small red envelopes filled with lucky money and given to children. The first day of chinese new year in 2018 is on february 16 but lichun this year falls on february 4. Festivities chinese new year gala cctv shown once a year on new year s eve cctv s gala is the signature variety show of the spring festival.
The most money is usually reserved for parents but chinese parents generally do not like taking money from their children. Every year various websites will calculate the auspicious time to deposit money on lichun day for each of the 12 zodiacs. It often serves as the first meal of the year either at midnight or as breakfast of the first day.
The money was referred to as money warding off evil spirits chinese. Chinese new year customs how do chinese people celebrate the cny the main chinese new year activities include 1 putting up decorations 2 eating reunion dinner with family on new year s eve 3 firecrackers and. On the 1st day of the 1st lunar month there is a chinese new year taboo on sweeping the house and dumping the trash.