‘ Red envelopes ’ - or ‘red packets’ - are a long-standing fixture of Chinese New Year celebrations whereby money is gifted, usually from adults to young relatives. And now Alipay, China’s biggest ...

We usually think of December as the final month of gift giving, and then January 1 comes and it’s all over. But as everyone who celebrates the Lunar New Year knows, there’s one more red, shiny holiday ...

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 ...

Year of the Sheep is sometimes called the year of the goat or ram. The red envelope tradition calls for clean%2C crisp%2C new currency%3B no gift cards are used here. The red color of the envelope ...