Everyone is often happy to receive red envelopes on Tet, but not everyone understands the origin and meaning of this custom.
Coupled sentences, New Year greeting cards, lucky money envelopes, year-end rice trays are signs that spring is approaching the alley. This is also the time when adults need to confide in children to fully understand the meaning of good traditional customs on the national New Year.
Along with Eastern culture, the custom of exchanging lucky money, also known as celebrating the age of the Vietnamese people, is considered a delicate gesture to send wishes of prosperity, luck, and health on the occasion of the holiday. the begin of the year.
Lucky money is a transliteration of the Chinese word “loi market”, which means to gain, to get money, to be lucky. Therefore, lucky money is money that brings luck, good things and good things to children at the beginning of the year.
The meaning of the lucky money envelope is not in the amount of money, but in the good will, the good meaning of the action. Lucky money is usually small amounts of money, including change and even money. The recipient of the lucky money was very pleased.
All the love in the red envelopes keeps spreading and sticking between the giver and the receiver for good things.
Whether noble or rustic, Vietnamese people often receive that gift with all the respect as cherishing the love of the giver. No matter what and how much is in that small envelope, just being sincerely given by the giver is enough to make the recipient feel happy and happy.
From coins, coins, banknotes to polymer coins – a small value attached to a red envelope does not lose the meaning of the custom of giving lucky money. but the important thing is the fortune at the beginning of the year, which is “developing fortune, receiving fortune”.
Giving lucky money to children at the beginning of the new year shows their concern, encouragement and wishes for their children and grandchildren to be obedient, healthy, and good at school… The elderly are given lucky money by their children and grandchildren to show their respect. respect, love, blessings and blessings. Therefore, lucky money makes the traditional Vietnamese New Year day more beautiful, warm and meaningful.
The main meaning of lucky money is not in the amount of money, but in the beginning of the year.
The beauty of red envelopes is the beauty that symbolizes privacy, avoiding the unhappy comparisons on New Year’s Day. For children, the joy of wearing new clothes, folding their arms to congratulate the adults and receiving red red envelopes is a true New Year.
The New Year’s lucky money is not limited to the first day of Tet , but throughout the first three days of the new year and can last until the 9th and 10th of January.
Today’s lucky money custom is no longer encapsulated within the family, but this beauty is gradually expanding and spreading . Friends, colleagues also give lucky money to each other, superiors give lucky money to employees … with wishes for a prosperous new year, prosperity, fortune, and good luck. The giver and the receiver, everyone enjoys good fortune and the Tet atmosphere seems to be more bustling when holding a red red envelope. Today, red red envelopes appear not only on New Year’s Eve but also in public celebrations, birthdays, weddings… as good wishes to relatives and friends.
In Singapore, lucky money is not only new coins with denominations from S-20, but can also contain vouchers, coupons, monthly bus tickets, stamps, checks, coins or a travel ticket, meal vouchers. restaurant. This represents the modern spirit in harmony with the traditional atmosphere of New Year’s Day in Singapore.
While red envelopes are popular everywhere, in Japan alone, people use white red envelopes printed with patterns or funny decorations, on which the name of the recipient is also written.
Muslim Malays living in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore soon adopted the Muslim custom of celebrating the ages of the elderly and children during the Muslim New Year Eid al-Fitr. However, instead of red envelopes, they used green envelopes.
Vietnamese people often put in red envelopes new red bills with the meaning of wishing for good health and luck…
Over time, the custom of giving lucky money has somewhat lost its inherent beauty, leading to the question “how much is enough?” become common concerns during Tet. However, you may not know, while the ancient Chinese often gave a red ring with 100 copper coins, symbolizing the wish to live a long life and have another name called New Year’s money.
Vietnamese people often put in red envelopes new red and pink banknotes such as 500 dong, 10,000 dong (these two bills were red in the past) … with the meaning of wishing for health, luck and peace. for descendants.
Giving is receiving. All the love in the red envelopes keeps spreading and sticking between the giver and the receiver so that good and peaceful things follow everyone during a year of study and work efforts.