This is one of if not the most important days and traditions in the Chinese calendar. People who choose not to follow it are not ignorant, they're just scrouges. Karma is a bitch, and she bites hard.
This is one of if not the most important days and traditions in the Chinese calendar. People who choose not to follow it are not ignorant, they're just scrouges. Karma is a bitch, and she bites hard.
It's blatantly about money. Every year the security in our building erect a big tree in the foyer made out of red packets...
Absolute face-ache security guards who've looked like doom all year suddenly manage crooked smiles.
Our building management has intervened these last years...any red packets must be put in a communal box and I agree with this system...(assuming it's shared equally)...
But Lai See is not a tip - it is a token of good luck and prosperity for the coming new year. Please do not denigrate the Lai See of our culture to the status of a gratuity.
Lai See should be given to family, friends, acquaintances and people who work for you (if any). To anyone else, it is discretionary.