"Li" is also called "Li", which means good luck. In China, from billionaires to the general public, most of the "profits" are 10 or 20 yuan, and most of them are not more than 50 yuan. Generally speaking, married people can give "gifts" from the first day of the New Year to the Lantern Festival. In addition to minors, there are also some unmarried people, and unmarried single friends in their fifties and sixties will also receive "welfare".
The purpose of Chinese New Year school is to spend money happily. When "Lili" comes out, you must see a smiling face. This letter is like picking up a joy, and both sides are in high spirits.
In addition to eating in restaurants, we should also give "gifts" to waiters, "gifts" to elders and children, and "gifts" to unmarried friends. After the holiday, the company also issued "Li" to start work, which means that everything goes well. Each letter of "Li" is accompanied by a card with words of encouragement printed on it to motivate employees. A few tens of dollars represents a kind of concern, which increases employees' sense of belonging to the company and is conducive to the long-term development of the company. The "profit" of starting a job is the same for every employee, no matter how big or small. It is not linked to performance and does not change the nature of "profit". The boss gives "welfare" to subordinates, just like having New Year's Eve dinner with subordinates, which can create the feeling of a big family, increase employees' sense of belonging to the company and make the relationship between employees and the company closer. "Profit" symbolizes goodwill, so "profit" itself does not need to be sealed.
Nowadays, every holiday in ordinary families, children will receive a lot of "welfare", which becomes a matter of course. But how to make good use of money has become a difficult problem for parents every year. They think that if it is not handled well, children will develop the habit of profligacy and forget the hard life of their parents in the past. Therefore, many concerned parents use their brains to take this opportunity to teach their children how to be good at financial management. Some people suggest that children share the benefits throughout the year; Some let children set goals and make savings plans; Some will give some to the poor in society.
The origin of "profit" has allusions to writing "profit market" or "profit things".
The word "benefiting the market" was recorded as early as the Book of Changes, which means getting twice the result with half the effort. In the Yuan Dynasty, the textual research on proverbs also mentioned that "it is a good omen to seek benefits from the master", which shows that seeking benefits also means auspiciousness.
According to Yi Za Zhu, "Doing business for profit, doing things for profit", businessmen call it profit, which means doing everything is beneficial.
Because the words "Shi" and "Shi" are actually interlinked, many people write "Shi Li" as "Shi Li".
Some old people call profits "red paper". Nowadays, the common gift seal is actually decades old. In the Qing dynasty, there was no gift seal. Every holiday, a piece of red paper is cut into small squares, and then the copper wallet is sealed in red paper, so many old people still use "red paper" as a synonym for profit.
The first generation of benefits was sealed after Guangxu, and it began to appear after the popularization of printing technology. At that time, the seal was printed on red paper with yellow ink, and then coated with gold powder before the ink was dry, which looked like gold words were printed on red paper. In addition to auspicious words, some are also equipped with simple patterns.
In the early 1930s, color printing and lithograph printing appeared for the first time, with auspicious New Year pictures such as sailing boats and Fu Lushou printed on them. The advantage of bronzing fonts is that seals didn't appear until the sixties. However, the bronzing of "Hundred Family Names, Li Weiyin" became popular in the 1970s. In addition, in the 1960s and 1970s, major companies began to print profit envelopes for their customers, so as to obtain publicity effects.
On the Lunar New Year, when smart children meet their elders, they will say some auspicious words to pay New Year greetings, and the elders will report a letter with the word "Li" to express their blessings to the children.