Lunar New Year tradition: red envelopes

We talked about Lunar New Year on Tuesday. One of the traditions among the Chinese is for the married people to give red packets to single persons and children; each packet has a coin or small amount of cash, or perhaps a piece of candy.

The original reason for this tradition was to keep away evil spirits, but nowadays it's just a tradition for fun.

Here is a red packet we designed for a client in a previous year.