Do you know how to distribute lucky money during the Spring Festival?

Knock, knock, knock ~ It's the Spring Festival again, and you can get lucky money again. Although you are a big baby in your twenties, sometimes you are embarrassed to receive lucky money, and you are still looking forward to the activities of having lucky money in the New Year.

I come from Shanxi. Judging from the national lucky money map circulated on the Internet, Shanxi's lucky money standard is not low, around 300 yuan.

Actually, I didn't take that much. At most, my parents gave me a red envelope of 200 yuan on New Year's Day. My grandparents live alone and have no financial resources. They will give me 50 red envelopes. My aunt and uncle are also ordinary farmers. They gave me 20 before, and it has become 50 in the past two years.

The custom of giving lucky money handed down a long time ago has attracted a lot of attention. According to my experience from childhood, I have the following customs: 1. Lucky money needs new money, so many people will go to the bank to change new money when the Spring Festival comes. 2. Lucky money generally does not include red. It seems that in many places, lucky money is given to red envelopes, but I have almost never confiscated red envelopes since I was a child, and my elders give money directly. 3. Relatives who give lucky money will get married, such as grandmothers, grandmothers and uncles. The year when children get married is usually the last time to give lucky money. Relatives who are a little farther away should wait until the child is about twelve years old. Some elders ask to kneel and kowtow to get lucky money. When I was a child, when I gave my grandmother a New Year's greeting on the first day of the New Year, she took out the lucky money, and then all the children knelt down and kowtowed, thanking her first, before they could get the lucky money, but now that I have grown up, I won't continue to do so.

The lucky money represents the care and expectation of the elders for the younger generation. How to give lucky money has different customs in every era. In feudal society, children were generally given copper coins directly. During the Republic of China, it was popular to wrap copper coins and oceans for children with red paper. Now, in addition to giving red envelopes and cash, it is more convenient to give red envelopes with WeChat and Alipay.

Lucky money is not only auspicious money for the New Year in China, but also a special cultural symbol for China people during the Spring Festival. It makes us feel the traditional virtues of China, such as attaching importance to gifts, respecting the old and loving the young, and enjoying reunion and celebration. We should not only keep this ceremony, but more importantly, we should pass on this excellent traditional culture.