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Hongbao – lucky money

On the <a href="http://www.echineselearning.com/chinese-new-year-2009.html?a_aid=post">Chinese New Year’s Eve</a> or anytime during the spring festival holidays, the aged would give <a href="http://www.echineselearning.com/services/kids-chinese/index.html?a_aid=post">Chinese kids</a> money, known as lucky money, which is put in small, red packets called Hongbao in <a href="http://www.echineselearning.com/about-us/our-school.html?a_aid=post">Chinese language</a> with Hong for red the color and Bao for packet. In southern <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>, not only <a href="http://www.echineselearning.com/services/kids-chinese/index.html?a_aid=post">Chinese kids</a> or Chinese teens can be presented with Hongbao, but also <a href="http://www.echineselearning.com/services/adults-chinese/index.html?a_aid=post">young adults</a> as long as they are not married.<o:p></o:p>

The lucky money in the Hongbao is called <st1:personname w:st="on" productid="Ya Sui">Ya Sui</st1:personname> Qian. Ya means suppress; one <a href="http://www.echineselearning.com/resources/chinese-materials/chinese-characters.html?a_aid=post">Chinese character</a> with pronunciation of Sui means devils; Qian is the word for money in <a href="http://www.echineselearning.com/about-us/our-school.html?a_aid=post">Chinese language</a>. To put together, <st1:personname w:st="on" productid="Ya Sui">Ya Sui</st1:personname> Qian means the thing that can suppress devils and maintain kids in peace and safety for a whole year. <o:p></o:p>

In some southern area, particularly in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Guangdong</st1:place></st1:state> province, Hongbao is called Lishi. And there is a saying that kids would say when asking for a Hongbao, Gong Xi Fa Cai Hongbao Na lai, wish you make plenty of money in the new year and please hand me a Hongbao.<o:p></o:p>

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11 sty 2009 21:03

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