Why do the Japanese rob the "blessing bag" during the Chinese New Year? What is usually in the blessing bag?

Every year, the Spring Festival is a happy day for many families. Every country celebrates the Spring Festival in different forms and traditions, so many friends don't understand such a thing: why do the Japanese grab the "blessing bag" during the Spring Festival? What is usually in the blessing bag?

The blessing bag is actually the invention and creation of Japanese businessmen. Just after the Meiji Restoration, Japanese merchants saw business opportunities. It is precisely because the Japanese New Year was officially synchronized with the world at this time that merchants put a large number of goods into beautifully packaged cloth bags or cartons for sale. These packaged goods are also called blessing bags.

What's in the blessing bag? The value of goods far exceeds the marked price without them, which is the meaning of the blessing bag. Therefore, in many large shopping centers in Japan, some goods with higher prices are usually put in blessing bags to distribute benefits to all customers, which is also a form of thanking new and old customers.

So many times, some people rob the blessing bag and find that the contents are not what they want, but they are also worth the money. In fact, grabbing a blessing bag is to grab an atmosphere, grab a good luck and grab a happiness. Moreover, people who grab the blessing bags sometimes exchange them, which is also an activity to maintain feelings between friends.

It's cheap, don't ask for it for nothing. Therefore, many foreign students studying in Japan or local Japanese residents will go to shopping malls to grab the blessing bags, try their luck and see if they want anything, which can be regarded as expressing good wishes for the New Year.

Many people give the robbed blessing bags as gifts to relatives and friends. There are even some people who can open it, but they will not open it for one year. It is more representative to wait until the second year.