12 Pieces Red Packet Money Lucky envelope Glossy paper ~ Chinese Dog New Year

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12 Pieces Red Packet Money Lucky envelope Glossy paper ~ Chinese Dog New Year
- This nice envelop was made with high quality gloss paper. It is thick and strong unlike the others. A great idea for monetary gifts!
- Red represents good luck and fortune plus this is the Chinese year of the dog, the design of engraved cute dog matches symbol of 2018.
- Pack of 12 pieces of the same design ( save you time to make difficult decision as of which to whom! LOL)
- Dimension 6 3/4" x 3 1/2"
Anyway, enjoying and happy new year!
In China, during the
Qin
Dynasty
, the elderly would thread coins with a red string.
The money was referred to as "money warding off evil spirits" (Chinese:
壓祟錢
; pinyin:
yāsuì qián
)
and was believed to protect the person of younger generation from sickness and death.
The
yasui qian
was replaced by red envelopes when printing presses became more common and is now found written using the homophone for
suì
that means "old age" instead of "evil spirits" thus, "money warding off old age" (Chinese:
壓歲錢
; pinyin:
yāsuì qián
).
Red envelopes continue to be referred to by such names today.
There are several legends as to how the red envelope came to be and became prevalent in China.
One story depicts a village where a demon was terrorizing the people at night, in most cases children were the victims.
The belief was that the demon was touching the children's heads while they were asleep and this would cause the children to become deathly ill or may even result in death.
As the theory continued to linger within the village, a worried couple decided to protect their new born child by praying to their god for protection.
In return, their god sent eight fairies to protect the new born child from the demon.
In order to trick the demon, the fairies disguised themselves as eight coins and were placed under the child's pillow at night to protect the child.
At night the demon supposedly approached to touch the child on the head when the eight coins began to shine so bright that it prohibited the demon to see.
Frightened from what had just happened, the demon ran away in terror.
After hearing this story, the villagers began spreading the word and gave out red envelopes filled with coins to be placed under their pillow at night.
At first the red envelopes were only given to children during the Spring Festival, but as time progress they were given to anyone.
By giving these red envelopes it would bring good luck and prosperity to the one receiving it.
It would also prevent any evil spirits from contacting them throughout the year until the next Spring Festival.