Happy New Year 4701!

**Ninong** · 02-01-2003, 01:57 PM

The Year of the Ram, Lunar Year 4701.

Gung hay fat choy!

**schrocat** · 02-02-2003, 12:41 PM

Who you calling Fat boy?

How wude.

almostdiva · 02-03-2003, 03:46 PM

Gung hay! Gung hay!

Maybe we can all get REALLY big envelopes of Lucky Money this year and upgrade our tanks!

**Ninong** · 02-03-2003, 04:07 PM

Maybe some of us are too old to receive red envelopes and instead have to hand them out.

**schrocat** · 02-04-2003, 12:34 PM

uh-oh....
what's the cutoff date for being a recipient?

**Ninong** · 02-04-2003, 01:43 PM

You're MUCH too old to be receiving red envelopes. Or anything else for that matter.

almostdiva · 02-04-2003, 02:20 PM

You guys are FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

turtlespd · 02-09-2003, 10:50 PM

Im 27 still get the red envelopes..I think you cant recieve envelopes after you are married and them must hand them out hehe .

Paul

almostdiva · 02-10-2003, 04:17 PM

Yet ANOTHER reason to stay single....

Reinhold · 02-10-2003, 06:02 PM

What the heck is a red envelope? I don't have a clue what this thread is about.

**Ninong** · 02-10-2003, 08:22 PM

The Lucky Red Envelope Story

Red is a lucky color to the Chinese and is used for decorations during holidays, especially Chinese New Year or Spring Festival. Red is one of the colors in the Yin and Yang symbol. The red portion represents positive energy. Traditional Chinese wedding dresses are red, too!

In the Chinese culture, if a child is alive to celebrate a new year's celebration, the older relatives give that child a red envelope with money inside. The red envelope has positive, good power to protect people from negative or bad power.

Another custom during Chinese New Year, is for married people to give unmarried people a red envelope with money in it. Also, older relatives, such as a grandmother, give young members of their family a lucky red envelope. In China, it is believed that this red envelope will bring luck to the person who gets it and to the person who gives it. Sometimes the red envelope is called "lay see" or lisee. Giving a Chinese child money is important to Chinese children because they usually do not get spending or pocket money in the form of allowance.

vtec si · 02-20-2003, 02:06 PM

That was a cool History lesson. I did not know that! Thanks Ninong!

VTEC SI

02-01-2003, 01:57 PM	#1
Ninong Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Louisiana Posts: 19,724	Happy New Year! The Year of the Ram, Lunar Year 4701. Gung hay fat choy! __________________ Ninong

02-02-2003, 12:41 PM	#2
schrocat Moderator Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Hilliard , Fl. Posts: 3,365	Who you calling Fat boy? How wude. __________________ "One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric" -Justice John Marshall Harlan "Send Lawyers, Guns and Money." -WZ

02-03-2003, 04:07 PM	#4
Ninong Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Louisiana Posts: 19,724	Maybe some of us are too old to receive red envelopes and instead have to hand them out. __________________ Ninong

02-04-2003, 12:34 PM	#5
schrocat Moderator Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Hilliard , Fl. Posts: 3,365	uh-oh.... what's the cutoff date for being a recipient? __________________ "One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric" -Justice John Marshall Harlan "Send Lawyers, Guns and Money." -WZ

02-04-2003, 01:43 PM	#6
Ninong Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Louisiana Posts: 19,724	You're MUCH too old to be receiving red envelopes. Or anything else for that matter. __________________ Ninong

02-03-2003, 03:46 PM	#3
almostdiva Mayor Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 963	Gung hay! Gung hay! Maybe we can all get REALLY big envelopes of Lucky Money this year and upgrade our tanks!

02-04-2003, 02:20 PM	#7
almostdiva Mayor Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 963	You guys are FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

02-09-2003, 10:50 PM	#8
turtlespd Just Moved In Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: S. Cali Diamondbar Posts: 31	Im 27 still get the red envelopes..I think you cant recieve envelopes after you are married and them must hand them out hehe . Paul

02-10-2003, 04:17 PM	#9
almostdiva Mayor Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 963	Yet ANOTHER reason to stay single....

02-10-2003, 06:02 PM	#10
Reinhold Mayor Join Date: May 2001 Location: USA Posts: 941	What the heck is a red envelope? I don't have a clue what this thread is about.

02-10-2003, 08:22 PM	#11
Ninong Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Louisiana Posts: 19,724	The Lucky Red Envelope Story Red is a lucky color to the Chinese and is used for decorations during holidays, especially Chinese New Year or Spring Festival. Red is one of the colors in the Yin and Yang symbol. The red portion represents positive energy. Traditional Chinese wedding dresses are red, too! In the Chinese culture, if a child is alive to celebrate a new year's celebration, the older relatives give that child a red envelope with money inside. The red envelope has positive, good power to protect people from negative or bad power. Another custom during Chinese New Year, is for married people to give unmarried people a red envelope with money in it. Also, older relatives, such as a grandmother, give young members of their family a lucky red envelope. In China, it is believed that this red envelope will bring luck to the person who gets it and to the person who gives it. Sometimes the red envelope is called "lay see" or lisee. Giving a Chinese child money is important to Chinese children because they usually do not get spending or pocket money in the form of allowance. __________________ Ninong

02-20-2003, 02:06 PM	#12
vtec si Governor Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Denver co, USA Posts: 1,017	That was a cool History lesson. I did not know that! Thanks Ninong! VTEC SI

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