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Q: why do Chinese give a red envelop "hong bao" with some money inside?

13 years 10 weeks ago in Culture - China

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HappyExPat

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Because in Chinese culture, you are not supposed to "open" a gift in front of the person giving it to you, so it is placed inside a hong bao.

Most of hung baos ar given to children and un married teen agers during New Lunar Year festival.

It is also a discrete way of bribing others.

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Hong Bao is suppose to be lucky and is typically given at the beginning of spring festival for a luckier and richer new year, some where in their tradition it changed into every occassion.

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