The meaning of New Year greetings and lucky money.

New Year greeting is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other.

In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "New Year" was to congratulate the old people on the New Year, including their hobbies, and to congratulate them on the New Year and a better life. If you have relatives and friends of the same age, you must also congratulate you.

With the development of the times, the custom of New Year greetings has added new contents and forms. In addition to following the new year's greetings, there are also courtesy telegrams, telephone calls, text messages, and online greetings.

The greeting time of the New Year is usually from the first day to the fifth day. After the eighth day of the first lunar month, visiting relatives and friends counts as the first year of the year, and after the fifth day of the first lunar month, fifteen counts as the first year of the year.

Early aging is an urgent or remedial measure to avoid regret. There is a folk proverb: it is not too late to celebrate the New Year.

The traditional custom of giving lucky money is to hope that the lucky money can eliminate evil spirits. Because ancient people thought that children were most vulnerable to ghosts, they should use lucky money to help celebrate the New Year. "Hui" and "Yi" are homophonic, hoping that children who get lucky money can live safely for a year.

As the lucky money becomes real money, the meaning of the lucky money has also changed. The function of "New Year's Eve" is gradually coming to an end, and its new "inspiring" functions such as "stimulating interest", "expanding financial resources" and "step by step" have emerged as the times require.

There are two kinds of lucky money. One is to string colored threads into the shape of a dragon and put them at the foot of the bed. The other and most common is the money that the old people wrap for their children with red paper.