During Lunar New Year red envelopes are everywhere and they play a part in colourful new year celebrations.
Red envelopes, which aren’t always red, can be referred to as lai-see (say “lay-CEE”) in Cantonese, hóngbāo (say “hoong-bao”) in Mandarin, li xi or tien mung tuoi (say “lee-SHE” or say “EE-an mung tu-AH”) in Vietnamese and more depending what language you speak.
The envelopes are important to many different cultures across Asia and Asian people around the world. And though they are given at birthdays, weddings and other special occasions, they’re most popular during Lunar New Year. Giving red envelopes (with new paper money inside) signify a sharing of good luck and prosperity.
While people mostly care about what’s inside of the envelope, here is a look at some of the designs that are on the outside:
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