One of the customs of the New Year’s Day is given to the younger generation by the elders. After the New Year’s dinner, the elders should distribute the prepared new year’s money to the younger generation. It is said that the new year’s money can suppress evil spirits, and the younger generation can spend the first year peacefully by receiving the new year’s money. In some families, parents put their children under their pillows to give New Year’s Eve money during the night after their children are asleep. This reflects the care and respect of the elders for the younger generation and the respect for the younger generation. It is a folk activity that integrates family ethical relationships. New Year’s Eve money in folk culture means warding off evil spirits and blessing peace. The original intention of the new year’s money was to suppress evil and drive away evil spirits, because people think that children are vulnerable to sneaky abuses, so the new year’s money is used to suppress evil and drive away evil spirits.
The emotional component, sense of gratitude and sense of blessing of “New Year’s money” gradually fade, and many people use the amount of New Year’s money as a tool for comparison. It is not an affectionate blessing to children, but bad material education and copper odor, which should be corrected in time.
With the increasing thickness of red envelopes, the New Year’s Eve money has become a burden for many families. New Year’s money is more of a blessing, containing a special heart, and should return to the essence of New Year’s money. Many children also regard “getting more New Year’s money” as an important goal and have no sense of gratitude and gratitude.
There are two kinds of New Year’s Eve money. One is made of colored ropes threaded into a dragon shape and placed at the foot of the bed. This record can be found in “Yenjing Sui Shi Ji”; the other is the most common, which is distributed by parents in red paper. Child’s money. The New Year’s Eve money can be rewarded in public after the younger generation’s New Year’s greetings, or it can be secretly placed under the child’s pillow by the parents when the child falls asleep on New Year’s Eve.
Post time: Feb-10-2021
