Joss money is used as an offering for the dead, and many Asian cultures equate gifting joss money in red envelopes to wishing someone death. Red envelopes filled with lucky money are synonymous to ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Handing out red envelopes (紅包) during the Lunar New Year is a key Taiwanese tradition, with red symbolizing vitality, joy, auspiciousness, and good luck. In ancient China, the ...

Last September, Kevin Li started thinking about how he and his wife could pass on Chinese traditions to their daughter Ava, who would turn one that December. “My wife and I made a plan [to] speak more ...

Every Lunar New Year billions of red envelopes stuffed with money are exchanged physically and virtually as a token of good fortune in the New Year. This year Lunar New Year falls on Jan. 28 and will ...