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During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, during the Chinese New Year, elders would give their children some copper coins to play with, in order to be safe and auspicious. This custom has always been popular. It was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that "lucky money" had a formal name. It is recorded in the classic "Yanjing Years Old" in the Qing Dynasty: "It is called lucky money to wear money with colored ropes, weave it into a dragon shape and put it at the foot of the bed. The elders give their children lucky money. " Because copper coins are string-shaped, ancient people also called "lucky money" "string-shaped"

Chinese New Year is a folk custom in China on New Year's Eve, which is also called "waste light", "light" and "embrace the new year". The folk custom of keeping New Year's Eve is mainly manifested in not turning off the lights all night. Keeping New Year's Eve refers to family reunion and staying up late to welcome the Lunar New Year. ?

Keeping the new year's eve is one of the activities of the old customs, and the custom of keeping the old age has a long history. The earliest existing documents can be found in the local customs of the Western Jin Dynasty: on New Year's Eve, all parties give gifts to each other, which is called "the year of giving back"; Wine and food are invited, which is called "not old"; Young and old get together to drink and wish a complete song called "age division"; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for the dawn. This is the so-called "Shounian".