Introduction: Soon our traditional Chinese Spring Festival will arrive! If it is said that who is most looking forward to the Spring Festival, it must be the children. Because you can not only have new clothes, experience many New Year's customs, but also receive money from parents and relatives. In particular, the custom of pressing the age of money, which has been passed down for thousands of years, is the favorite of children. However, many parents can't help but struggle when they press the money for their children, whether it is Chinese New Year's Eve night to give, or the first day of the New Year? As everyone knows, there is a big deal of attention in this!
Recently, the Internet suddenly launched a topic of "whether to give Chinese New Year's Eve or give on the first day of the New Year" on the Internet, which caused heated discussion among netizens. Many netizens said: "Since it is the pressure of the old money, it must be given by Chinese New Year's Eve at night!" These netizens said that they had been Chinese New Year's Eve and when they watched the year with adults at night, they received money for the elderly after paying homage to the elders. According to the elders, that is, "Chinese New Year's Eve begin to suppress, and the new year is healthy and healthy."
However, some netizens in the south said: "My family is the first day of the New Year, and it is only after paying homage to the adults that they began to collect the old money." They also explained that the reason why the elders only give it on the first day of the New Year is mainly the New Year's blessings, in addition to hoping for good health, but also looking forward to the new year to gather wealth. Especially for young people who are already working, giving red envelopes on the first day of the new year is to hope that they will work smoothly in the new year and earn more!
Everyone never expected that the time for pressing money in different places was actually different. And this topic has also sparked a heated discussion such as "which is delicious for salty and sweet rice dumplings". In the end, it was folklore experts and historians who cited the scriptures to give the final answer!
01. Is it Chinese New Year's Eve or the first shot of the New Year?
The earliest record of the pressed year money can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, when the pressed year money was called the pressure victory money, which means "to destroy the evil" and "long live the thousand autumns". At that time, it was not the various currencies circulating in the market, but specially customized jewelry in the shape of coins printed with dragons and phoenixes, star buckets, turtles and snakes.
Since then, this tradition has continued until the Song and Yuan dynasties, and gradually changed to the currency circulating on the market as a pressure money for children.
As for the question of whether it is Chinese New Year's Eve night or the first day of the New Year, according to the significance of the pressed old money recorded in the historical records, it is generally Chinese New Year's Eve night. Because according to legend, in ancient times, there was a kind of monster called "Chong" who came out to harm people at night Chinese New Year's Eve. If it touches the head of a sleeping child, it will make the child sick after being frightened. In order to prevent "reverence" from harming people, people have been lighting lamps until dawn in the Chinese New Year's Eve night, which is "guarding the secret".
However, one family was too worried about this to prevent "Chong" from hurting the child, so they put 8 copper coins under the child's pillow on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve. That night, when "Chong" wanted to touch the child again, he was injured by the light emitted by the copper coin and fled in a hurry, and did not dare to hurt the child of the family in the future. After the news spread, people also began to put some copper coins under the children's pillows during the Chinese New Year's Eve night, which means "pressing money". And "chong" and "age" are homophonous, so it has become what we now call the pressure of the year money.
It is not difficult to see from the above that Chinese New Year's Eve press the child's old age money at night, which is more in line with its original meaning. It can also express the wishes of the elders for the health and peace of their children in the new year. Today, as people's lives get better and better, the money that was originally just for a good blessing has begun to rise, and the amount is getting bigger and bigger.
02. How to correctly deal with the child's pressure money?
As everyone's life and economic conditions are getting better and better, the most important question of how much money to give children is based on the parents' own economic considerations. For children who can receive more and more pressure money, parents should pay more attention to guidance. As the famous educator Merkel said: "Money education is an extremely important lesson in children's education, and it is also one of the compulsory courses in our lives!" ”
1. Establish a special bank account to cultivate children's financial quotients
Fang Yuan, a well-known financial and business expert, believes that how to help and guide children to manage the pressure money is a good opportunity to cultivate his financial quotient. She suggested that parents could take their children to the bank, open an account dedicated to storing the money, and then the parents and children could take the card and manage the password.
For the money in the account, parents can let the child choose whether to save or buy some bank wealth management funds. Let him have a certain sense of financial management from an early age, invisibly improve financial quotient.
2. Fulfill your child's wishes
For children, the main reason why pressing the old money can make them full of expectations is that they can buy items that may not be recognized by their parents on weekdays. Therefore, parents may wish to listen to the items that the child hopes to buy with the money of the press, and if it is within a reasonable range, the child's wishes can be properly met and made him happier.
Of course, if the child makes unreasonable demands, parents, while adhering to the principle, patiently teach the child and explain why they are not allowed to buy. It is imperative not to refuse directly and arbitrarily and forcibly take away his money. This will not only make him sad and sad, but also very detrimental to the parent-child relationship!
3. Appropriately give pocket money
Put the child's money into his daily pocket money in batches, such as negotiating a distribution agreement with him in advance. If he wants to increase his pocket money, he can properly extract from the pressure money by participating in family labor or developing good habits to maintain good health. At the same time, we should also emphasize to the child that this is a blessing for his elders, relatives and friends, including his physical health, mental health and financial health.
It is worth noting that in this agreement, "if you can get 100 points", "if you can get the first place" and other content should not be added, otherwise it is easy for children to define the starting point of motivation to become excellent as money, and the negative impact is immeasurable!
epilogue:
Pressing the old age money is an indispensable custom of our traditional Spring Festival, and it is a good blessing from the elders to the younger generations. Parents can follow the custom of giving their children a reasonable amount of money at night of the Chinese New Year's Eve. At the same time, we must also pay attention to helping and guiding children to manage correctly and scientifically, and control the pressure money to make it more positive!
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