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Money worries as red packets get fatter
Shanghai Daily, February 13, 2013
Du Tianjiang's wife Liang Huizhen gives a red packet to the grandson of their friend in Du's restaurant in Xinglong, a town of Wanning City in south China's Hainan Province, Jan. 24, 2012. [Photo: Xinhua]
Red packets traditionally contained a small sum of money given to children during the Chine New Year.
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But unlike in southern China, such as Guangdong Province and Hong Kong, where people mostly give veral tens of yuan for children during the New Year holiday, red packets in most parts of China, including Shanghai, now e large sums of money exchanging hands.
"I'm always amazed to e how generous people are when giving red packets here. The a
mount is sometimes 50 times what we are ud to giving," said Mark Yip, a Hong Kong resident visiting relatives in Shanghai. "I wonder if they really earn that much each month."
A report by TNS, a market rearch firm, found people on the Chine mainland on average allocate 3,668 yuan (US$588.8) as red packet money for the Chine New Year. An average red packet for family members contains 1,323 yuan, and tho for relatives average 893 yuan, according to the report.
Daniel Tao, a Shanghai white collar worker, said his two-year-old daughter had received more than 10,000 yuan so far this year, mostly from relatives and friends.
宝宝多大可以喝酸奶"She really got a good harvest," Tao said, adding that grandpa, grandma, uncles and aunties had each given the toddler 1,000 yuan.
"But we also have to give out a lot in return," he said. "It's almost a meaningless exchange."
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For tho who are just starting to work and don't have any children, the problem is that they have little money to give away. Some web urs complain that they have to spend all their annual bonus on red packets and taking relatives to nice restaurants.
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"It ems that 500 yuan is the minimum amount of money for children of relatives," an online post said. "The tradition of giving red packets will cost all my bonus in a week."
Web urs were outraged after Xinhua news agency cited a retired government official lamenting about the large sum his child ud to receive when he was in his post.
"My child ud to receive tens of thousand of yuan during the Chine New Year, some times people give 10,000 yuan in a packet," Xinhua quoted him as saying. "But now, none would visit me except for the relatives."
There have long been proposing to cut the size of red packets, but reality ems to be against it.
江城如画里An online poll conducted by Tencent found that 40 percent of web urs would allocate th
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ree months' salary for red packets, and 70 percent expected to spend more every year.
