If you're over 30, you shouldn't be taking red envelopes.
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Morning of Tết each childreceived crisp money in red envelopes.
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I wish Netflix offered many more obscure movies in red envelopes.
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In 2015, the company says WeChat delivered over one billion red envelopes.
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Older family members give younger family members red envelopes filled with money.
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In return, the couple usually receives lucky red envelopes with money or jewelry.
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Think back, they were sending out their DVDs, still in red envelopes. Right.
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In recent years, digital red envelopes have increasingly grown as national phenomenon in China.
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Meanwhile, government supervisors get red envelopes filled with cash and plenty of free cigarettes.
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The phrase is often emblazoned on cash-stuffed red envelopes given as wedding presents.
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The US Postal Service, however, can reach every ZIP code with those red envelopes.
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Others say you stop receiving red envelopes once you start making your own money.
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Over the Lunar New Year period, users gifted 46 billion virtual red envelopes over WeChat.
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This feature borrows heavily from WeChat and the tradition of 'hongbao' (or red envelopes) in China.
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According to Hastings, Netflix may have begun as a DVD rental company — remember those red envelopes?
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If you're among them, you'll likely give, or receive, artfully decorated red envelopes filled with cash.
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WeChat, a widely used social platform on smartphones, allows for the digital transfer of red envelopes.
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Red envelopes called 'hong bao,' are filled with money and handed out to friends and family.
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There are stacks of red envelopes on sale, for stuffing cash in and handing out as gifts.
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If you're among them, you'll most likely give, or receive, artfully decorated red envelopes filled with cash.
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The company shared a video of the party during which employees received red envelopes with the news.
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The company has come a long way since its early days of mailing off DVDs in red envelopes.
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Red envelopes also aren't Lunar New Year-specific — they can be given out on birthdays, weddings, and other milestones.
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Those gifts can vary from red envelopes full of cash right through to tea, clothing, or cans of spam.
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If you're feeling the Pig's generosity, you can give red envelopes full of money to your family members, she says.
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It may all sound gimmicky, but in 2016, more than 8 billion digital red envelopes were exchanged over the platform.
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Based on our research, red is traditionally seen as good luck; money is often given in red envelopes or packages.
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During a multiweek celebration, people reconnect with family, set off fireworks, and give and receive red envelopes filled with cash.
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In an interview with TechCrunch, Hike CEO and founder Kavin Bharti Mittal described a product very much like WeChat's red envelopes.
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Mobike already incentivises users to move its bikes around to high-demand areas by offering "red envelopes" worth a few yuan.
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Red lanterns are hung, red cutouts are used as decorations, and red envelopes filled with money are gifted among friends and family.
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One was a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner kit, with tiny red envelopes and chunlian, lucky couplets on banners pasted around doorways.
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Hongbaos are red envelopes containing money that are commonly given among family members during special occasions as a token of good luck.
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Red envelopes are traditionally gifted to children during the holiday, but they can also be given to unmarried adults, elderly relatives, friends, and employees.
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Sunday • An exhibition of work on red envelopes by more than 150 artists at the Red Envelope Show at Grumpy Bert in Downtown Brooklyn.
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The familiar red envelopes have been arriving in customers' mailboxes since 1998 and helped earn the company a healthy $212 million profit last year.
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A tea ceremony is conducted, a groom has to fight to pick up his bride, and red envelopes are accepted in lieu of a gift registry.
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Uptake was slow until the company spied an opportunity in the tradition of giving cash gifts in red envelopes to friends and relatives during Chinese new year.
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The two firms compete heavily over the Chinese New Year period to target the market of 'red envelopes', which are traditional monetary gifts shared around the holidays.
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A major update to the service this month saw it emulate WeChat's 'red envelopes' with the introduction of 'blue packets' and an in-app wallet/payment function.
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Tencent Holdings also cancelled an annual event in Shenzhen at which founder Pony Ma and other top executives hand employees Lunar New Year red envelopes containing cash.
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Craig Jaffe, Eastchester, N.Y. The article by Joe Nocera about Netflix irked me on at least one score: the suggestion that nobody gets DVDs in red envelopes anymore.
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Young visitors can make paper lanterns and cherry blossoms, decorate red envelopes (signifying good luck) and learn how to work with sumi ink from the artist Chemin Hsiao.
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In 2015, users were given a specific time to literally shake their phone to try to snag one of some million digital red envelopes WeChat sent out, lottery-style.
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For the Chinese Lunar New Year, red envelopes filled with money are handed to family members and streets close down for colorful parades that feature lion dancers and fireworks.
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"Good Morning America" reported that employees only learned they were receiving the bonuses when they opened red envelopes containing the amounts at the company&aposs holiday party on Saturday.
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This year, the country's three biggest Internet companies—Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent—are offering their own version of online red envelopes and dressing up the custom with games and giveaways.
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The gold packets are based on WeChat's popular virtual red envelopes, or digital "hongbaos", that also allow users to send funds to friends, albeit of a fixed nominal cash amount.
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This set includes red envelopes, a custom stamp and a tool that helps you write addresses straight, just what you need after you've indulged in a tad too much eggnog.
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DEAL WITH THE DOGS My mom, who lives in Los Angeles, sent Marshmallow and Loki red envelopes for Chinese New Year so I wanted to send a thank-you photo.
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This February, Chinese New Year fell on the very beginning of NYFW, and lots of Asian-American designers took it as an opportunity to roll out the red envelopes right alongside the red carpet.
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The messenger—which is owned by Tencent and China's most popular with 650 million monthly active users—first enabled people to send red envelopes through the app's WeChat Pay mobile payment service in 2014.
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"It will become a support for gold demand and the gold price if WeChat gold packets become popular, considering the amount of traditional red envelopes users send," said Guotai Junan gold analyst Xie Qingpeng.
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Red envelopes are typically used for gift giving, especially for holidays like Chinese New Year, but the ability to gift someone money on Facebook would mean Facebook could also facilitate peer-to-peer payments.
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Plus, when you're a bratty kid, the most fun part of the New Year is receiving "li xi," or small amounts of money that your relatives give to you in red envelopes for good luck.
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This story was originally published on February 19, 2015 One of the biggest Lunar New Year traditions in China — besides the red envelopes and parades — is the house-cleaning ritual, known as da sao chu.
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I ordered the DVDs of the French documentary series, which first aired on television in 2004, through Netflix, back in 2008, when subscribing to the streaming service mostly meant scrounging around your house for misplaced red envelopes.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - As he does every year, ethnic Chinese Indonesian Purnama celebrated Lunar New Year on Saturday at a dinner with his extended family of more than 50 in Jakarta where they exchanged traditional red envelopes containing money.
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China's largest e-commerce company Alibaba, put its own spin on the custom by handing out virtual red envelopes with cash or gift coupons during the Spring Festival Gala, a popular annual show that airs the evening before Chinese New Year starts.
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I think about what these red envelopes would look like on a map, a constellation of lucky red dots across New York City, connecting neighborhoods and communities that might not normally have much to do with one another except that we've all accepted Eva's care.
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Red envelopes of cash are traditionally handed out as gifts at Chinese New Year, an occasion the couple used to give money to thousands of soldiers, police and Hun Sen bodyguards who gathered outside their mansion in Phnom Penh, according to local media reports.
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Users have not only embraced the e-hongbao trend - exchanging digital red envelopes during Chinese New Year as greetings and gifts to friends and family - but also frequently transfer money or make payments to e-tailers as well as bricks-and-mortar stores by using services such as WeChat Pay.
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Tencent previously disclosed that 5003 million user cards were attached to the payment service as of November 2015, thanks to a genius campaign that taps into China's tradition of sending red envelopes during New Year, but now it said the figure is "safely more than 300 million" while it also gave us clues as to how large its volumes could become.
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In the mid-2010s, Chinese messaging apps such as WeChat popularized the distribution of red envelopes in a virtual format via mobile payments, usually within group chats. In 2017, it was estimated that over 100 billion of these virtual red envelopes would be sent over the New Year holiday.
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The red envelope feature significantly increased the adoption of WeChat Pay. According to the Wall Street Journal, 16 million red envelopes were sent in the first 24 hours of this new feature's launch. A month after its launch, WeChat Pay's user base expanded from 30 million to 100 million users, and 20 million red envelopes were distributed during the New Year holiday. In 2016, 3.2 billion red envelopes were sent over the holiday period, and 409,000 alone were sent at midnight on Chinese New Year.
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Before the games start, the groom and groomsmen must first pay a fee in order for the bridesmaids to open the door. It is common for the groom and groomsmen to prepare red envelopes filled with cash that they use to negotiate with the bridesmaids who guard the door. These amounts are usually in multiples of auspicious numbers, such as the number 8 that signifies wealth, or 9, that signifies a long-lasting union. Groomsmen often will carry ample amounts of red envelopes and try to negotiate with the bridesmaids as to the amount of red envelopes that is required before they agree to open to the door.
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Tablet and its sealed envelope: employment contract. Girsu, Sumer, circa 2037 BC. Terra cotta. Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. Red envelopes are an example of paper envelopes.
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To win red envelopes, some people shook multiple smartphones to increase their chance of winning, and some people put their smartphones and tablets in a sieve to shake them simultaneously.
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In 2014, WeChat partnered with the Spring Festival Gala and introduced the WeChat red envelope shake. During the gala, users were invited to shake their smartphones for a chance to win red envelopes. A total of 1.2 billion red envelopes, worth over half a billion RMB (US$83 million), were sent out during the promotion. The number of shakes during the gala promotion achieved a total frequency of 11 billion and a peak of 810 million per minute.
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There is a seasonal Chinese New Year meal available, including the Grilled Chicken Burger and curly fries, with a horoscope of the twelve zodiac animals of Chinese astrology and traditional red envelopes.
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Physicians, and in particular, surgeons, can augment their hospital salaries by operating surgeries at hospitals other than the one in which they are employed. Many physicians also receive commissions from prescribing prescription drugs and get “red envelopes” from patients (patients give money or gifts to their wanted physicians for getting treatment) or from sales representatives of drug companies. However, a new regulation issued by the Health Ministry removes physicians from the practice of medicine if they are found to have taken "red envelopes" from patients, and a hotline has been set up to monitor physicians.
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Starting in 2019, gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins were passed out in traditional lai see (red envelopes) to children for the one-day Choy Sun Doe event, celebrating the arrival of the god of wealth. Some also included money or a gift certificate.
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The campus itself is of environmental- friendly design. The school also sets up Environmental Protection Team, regularly holding activities and raise awareness on environmental issues, for example: recycling moon-cake boxes and red envelopes, visiting Hoi Ha Wan and Mai Po, etc.
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This is also the time when the elders will hand out red envelopes with money to the children for good luck in exchange for Tết greetings. It is also tradition to pay off your debts before the Lunar New Year for some Vietnamese families.
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On August 25, 2019, Liaotianbao team announced the addition of Alipay payment function. When user want to withdraw red envelopes from friends and family or withdraw virtual currency from the game, the withdraw deposit service will automatically jump to the page of Alipay when you click on withdraw.
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Usually, the Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist Chinese will burn a big incense made by aloeswood with dragon-decorated at front of their house. The Chinese temple is open 24 hours at the first day, their also distributes a red envelopes and sometimes rice, fruits or sugar to the poor around.
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Ampaw means "puffed grain" in Philippine languages. Though it applies predominantly to the rice version, popcorn can also be referred to as ampaw (more accurately as ampaw na mais, "puffed corn"). In Cebuano slang, ampaw is also a euphemism roughly equivalent to the English idiom "[a person] full of hot air". Ampaw should not be confused with Chinese red envelopes, ampao or ang pao, a close homonym in Philippine Hokkien.
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The feature allows users to send money to contacts and groups as gifts. When sent to groups, the money is distributed equally, or in random shares ("Lucky Money"). The feature was launched through a promotion during China Central Television (CCTV)'s heavily watched New Year's Gala, where viewers were instructed to shake their phones during the broadcast for a chance to win sponsored cash prizes from red envelopes.
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The success prompted Alibaba to launch its own version of virtual red envelopes in its competing Laiwang service. Other competitors, Baidu Wallet and Sina Weibo, also launched similar features. In 2019 it was reported that WeChat had overtaken Alibaba with 800 million active WeChat mobile payment users versus 520 million for Alibaba's Alipay. However Alibaba had a 54 per cent share of the Chinese mobile online payments market in 2017 compared to WeChat's 37 per cent share.
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Up to three months or earlier before the wedding day, the groom will deliver the betrothal gifts to the bride's family on an auspicious date.送 The betrothal (, also known as 納彩 or nàcǎi) is an important part of the Chinese wedding tradition. During this exchange, the groom's family presents the bride's family with betrothal gifts (called 聘礼 or pìnlǐ) to symbolize prosperity and good luck. Moreover, the bride's family receives the bride price () in red envelopes.
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Duanfang is one of the founders of China's modern education, while he was acting Viceroy of Liangjiang, he founded the Jinan Academy in Nanjing. As governor of Hubei and Hunan, he established he Teacher's college. While he was governor of Jiangsu, determined to get rid of bad habits, ordered counties to refund red envelopes to use to send two local students to study abroad. Duanfang was the founder of the first kindergarten in China and provincial libraries.
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Gifts of money may be placed in a special box at the sign-in table. Two people will be at the sign-in tables (one from the bride's family and one from the groom's) to register guests and receive gifts/red envelopes. Often, they will have two separate guest lists, one from the groom's side and one from the bride's. Then the best man and the maid of honor will direct ushers to escort guests to their seat.
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Ong Tao In Vietnamese culture, the Vietnamese New Year (Tết) is a time to make a new start. Children get red envelopes with money inside, known as "lì-xì" in Vietnamese, as gifts for good luck in the coming year. Vietnamese families prepare their houses for the coming of a prosperous new year by cleaning up and polishing their silver. It is during this cultural event that Ông Táo comes in to serve as the Kitchen God for Vietnamese families.
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Further withdrawals of more than 1,000 Yuan were charged a 0.1 percent fee with a minimum of 0.1 Yuan per withdrawal. Other payment functions including red envelopes and transfers were still free. WeChat Pay's main competitor in China and the market leader in online payments is Alibaba Group's Alipay. Alibaba company founder Jack Ma considered the red envelope feature to be a "Pearl Harbor moment", as it began to erode Alipay's historic dominance in the online payments industry in China, especially in peer-to-peer money transfer.
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Money is deposited into a user's WeChat Pay account, which can be used for purchases. The app allows withdrawals from that account. There are two types of 'red envelopes' offered by the app: the pairwise red packets, via which money is sent from a private chat of two users, and the group red packets, where money is distributed in a group chat. The 'grouped' red envelope can then be posted to a group chat and the application randomly assigns the amount in each envelope to each recipient.
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Working with poor communities, it trains people to deal with the effects of climate change and prepares them for the threat of natural disasters. These local organisations - or ‘partners’ – also work on HIV, training and education, health and sanitation and peace and reconciliation. In 2007 the organisation encouraged people to plant trees in support of its overseas work on climate change projects. The charity aimed to raise £15.5 million from the annual fundraising week in 2007, and approximately 300,000 volunteers across the United Kingdom posted the well known red envelopes through millions of letterboxes.
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Through Alipay Wallet, users were able to share Alibaba's digital red envelopes with their WeChat friends and send them onto WeChat's sharing platform Moments. Shortly afterwards, WeChat disabled the capability. Alibaba then changed their application to require more direct interaction with Alipay Wallet if a user wanted to give the "lucky money" to their WeChat friends. Specifically, they changed the application to generate an image with a number which could be shared on WeChat, prompting one's WeChat friends to download and open Alipay Wallet and type in the number to redeem the money.
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Under China's corruption campaign, red envelope has been positioned as gears of bribery because it is hardly noticed by the public. Cases related have already reached 51,600 as of July 2014, recorded by Chinese government. Currently, WeChat has set a RMB200 (US$33) ceiling for red envelope-gifting. Yet precisely since the amounts involved are small and because many people might be involved in the gift-giving through the virtual red envelopes, it has proven to be challenging for the government to monitor corrupt practices carried out in this manner.
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Red packets are generally given by established married couples to the younger non-married children of the family. It is custom and polite for children to wish elders a happy new year and a year of happiness, health and good fortune before accepting the red envelope. Red envelopes are then kept under the pillow and slept on for seven nights after Chinese New Year before opening because that symbolizes good luck and fortune. In Taiwan in the 2000s, some employers also gave red packets as a bonus to maids, nurses or domestic workers from Southeast Asian countries, although whether this is appropriate is controversial.
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In China, physicians are well respected, but as a group they are not at the top of the social structure of the country because their incomes fall in the middle class. According to a Ph.D. candidate at a U.S. Public Health School, who was a physician at a well- known 3A hospital in Beijing, like other junior physicians, she seldom received “red envelopes” from patients, and only senior physicians or physicians with fame would have such opportunities. The student said those senior physicians had become members of the high-income class. Like the student, many physicians, went abroad to study because they were not satisfied with their status.
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For non-Chinese users of WeChat Pay, an additional identity verification process of providing a photo of a valid ID as well as oneself is required before certain functions of WeChat Pay become available. Users who link their credit card can only make payments to vendors, and cannot use this to top up WeChat balances. WeChat Pay can be used for digital payments, as well as payments from participating vendors. As of March 2016, WeChat Pay had over 300 million users. In 2014, for Chinese New Year, WeChat introduced a feature for distributing virtual red envelopes, modelled after the Chinese tradition of exchanging packets of money among friends and family members during holidays.
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Entrance to a Red Envelope Club in Ximending, Taipei A Red Envelope Club () is a form of Cabaret in Taiwan that originated in Taipei in the 1960s as an imitation of Shanghai Cabaret. In these cabarets, female singers sing old Chinese songs from the 1920s to 1950s to mostly older men, many of whom were soldiers in General Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army that fled Mainland China after the Chinese Civil War. The cabarets get their name from the fact that the audience gives the singers, who they appreciate, money in red envelopes. The remaining clubs are mostly located in the Ximending District of Taipei on Hankou Street, Emei Street, and Xining South Road.
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Ah Meng died on 8 February 2008 due to old age. She was 47 years old, or 95 orangutan years, and was survived by two sons, Hsing Hsing (who died of diabetic complications at the Perth Zoo in 2017) and Satria, and three daughters, Medan, Hong Bao (Named for the red envelopes given to relatives during Chinese New Year, and the reddish hair orangutans have), and Sayang (a Malay word term similar to darling in English), as well as six grandchildren. On 10 February 2008, a memorial service for Ah Meng was held before a crowd of 4000 visitors at the Singapore Zoo. As a tribute to her, the next orangutan born at the Singapore Zoo will be named Ah Meng Junior.
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Red packets for sale in a market in Taipei, Taiwan, before the Year of the Rat Chinatown, Singapore Traditionally, red envelopes or red packets (Mandarin: ; Hakka: fung bao / Cantonese: ) are passed out during the Chinese New Year's celebrations, from married couples or the elderly to unmarried juniors or children. During this period, red packets are also known as "yasuiqian" (, which was evolved from , literally, "the money used to suppress or put down the evil spirit"). Red packets almost always contain money, usually varying from a couple of dollars to several hundred. Chinese superstitions favour amounts that begin with even numbers, such as 8 (八, ) — a homophone for "wealth", and 6 (六, ) — a homophone for "smooth", except for the number 4 (四, ) — as it is a homophone of "death", and is, as such, considered unlucky in Asian culture.
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Most importantly, the first day of Chinese New Year is a time to honor one's elders and families visit the oldest and most senior members of their extended families, usually their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. Some families may invite a lion dance troupe as a symbolic ritual to usher in the Chinese New Year as well as to evict bad spirits from the premises. Members of the family who are married also give red envelopes containing cash known as lai see (Cantonese: ) or angpow (Hokkien and Teochew), or hongbao (Mandarin), a form of blessings and to suppress the aging and challenges associated with the coming year, to junior members of the family, mostly children and teenagers. Business managers also give bonuses through red packets to employees for good luck, smooth-sailing, good health and wealth.
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