Ang Pow Issues...

[Andaiz]

:? The giver of this ang pow is Cantonese! I think it's probably convenience...or poor auntie wanted to put 2 pieces and forgot!

[tutormum]

tree nymph:

Hong Kongers and some traditonal cantonese here will give two angpows to one kid. They believe everything must be in even, cheng shuan cheng dui

No lei, I was taught by my granny that we cantonese give 2 cos it represents one from the husband and the other from the wife. The amount in each packet must be even. If one becomes a widow or widower, then give one. DH family is Hokkien and they give only 1 so I combine the amount and give 1 instead of 2 packets.

[Full.010894Cream]

I also have no qualms abt giving $5 except that since we usually change to $2 notes, we don’t. When I 1st got married, even $10 is consider odd, which I guess is why some couple give $12.

[auntieM]

We have an old uncle that gives angpow in the '5s' all these years....$5,$50 and $500. I wonder if there is a special reason behind it... :?

[Full.010894Cream]

auntieM:

We have an old uncle that gives angpow in the '5s' all these years....$5,$50 and $500. I wonder if there is a special reason behind it... :?

Certainly don't mind $500...even $50 also OK

[auntieM]

He hee....$500 was for tea ceremony decades ago and now $50 is for my DS CNY angpow.

[KoalaMummy]

tree nymph:

Can give $5 angbao. This is especially so for hokkien. cos 5 is wu in hokkien means have. so 5 means you have good fortune.

Wu is in chinese lah, but it should mean \"no more\"
5 in hokkien should be \"ghaw\"

[tree nymph]

Wu = 5 = 无

But if you say wu wu in hokkien, its 有…

anyway, this is what the people who give $5 angpow told me… My kids got a few $5 angbows from Malaysia this year.

For us here, we usually give even nos.

[tree nymph]

tutormum:

tree nymph:

Hong Kongers and some traditonal cantonese here will give two angpows to one kid. They believe everything must be in even, cheng shuan cheng dui

No lei, I was taught by my granny that we cantonese give 2 cos it represents one from the husband and the other from the wife. The amount in each packet must be even. If one becomes a widow or widower, then give one. DH family is Hokkien and they give only 1 so I combine the amount and give 1 instead of 2 packets.

This is what my friend's old grandmother told us one year when we went to her place in Hong Kong. She is an widow, we still got two angbows from her.

Yah, Hokkien and most other dialects give only one angpows. later i go ask my chinese colleagues and customers to see if there's any difference in Taiwan and China

[KSP]

What is the market rates ang pows this year?