Lucky money：
Lucky money
when I was young, my family is very poor, all my pocket money is the money I get on chinese new year day that called Lucky money.Lucky money is put in an envelopes that called money envelopes.
The spring festival is the loveliest in China， which is comes in February. Everyone loves it so much that prepare lots of things of the spring festival before it comes. In the spring festival holiday， people do many things， such as eat the dinner on the New Year‘s， set off fireworks， stroll the famous fair likes“Baiyunguan” fair. Especially for some children or teenager is “lucky money".
On the first day of lunar，the young generation congratulates the old generation with “Happy New Year!”
Then the old generation will give the young some lucky money which wrapped with red paper or red envelope. Because red is a color with joyful. Lucky money means the old generation‘s love to the young and hope them can have a good luck in this new year. this is the lucky money which lots of the young want.
The Tradition of Giving Lucky Money on New Year's Eve
The tradition of giving lucky money to children on the Chinese New Year’s Eve can be traced back to a thousand years ago in the Song Dynasty. Children would be delighted to receive plates full of fruit and cookies prepared by elders. And the entire family would have much fun. The plates were in time replaced by strings with coins on them.Watch Online: Lucky money
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