During the New Year’s Eve, the younger generation should first pay New Year’s greetings to the elders, wishing the elders long life and good health. The elders can distribute the New Year’s money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that the Lunar New Year money can suppress evil spirits. You can live a year in peace. There are two kinds of New Year’s money, one is made of colorful ropes and threads to make a dragon; the other is the most common, that is, money distributed to children by parents wrapped in red paper. Lunar New Year money can be given in public after the younger generation pays 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. The custom of the elders to distribute the New Year’s money to the younger generation still prevails.

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