Associate Professor Bui Xuan Dinh at the Institute of Ethnology under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences said that lucky money, known in Vietnam as "lixi", started as a Chinese custom to express ...

Preparing for Tết is a big deal: homes are cleaned and decorated, special foods like sticky rice cakes (bánh chưng and bánh ...

while Vietnam's Tết Nguyên Đán goes for up to a week. Lunar New Year in South Korea, known as Seollal, runs for three days. The lucky money inside varies from $1 to several hundred and ...

The coming year is the Year of the Dog, so many have been on the hunt for coins and notes with images of dogs on them to give as li xi, lucky money that adults give to children and loved ones for the ...

The exchange of lucky money can involve all of these things ... “In the early days in Vietnam, the envelopes didn’t have much money because people were poorer and often, only the men of ...

In Vietnam, families hang ‘lucky money’ packets on their trees at Tet, for these farmers, the tree itself is ‘lucky money’. We are walking through fields ablaze with pink peach blossoms on specially ...

The tradition of giving “Li xi”, known in English as “lucky money”, in envelopes is one of the most ... eye-catching and modern envelopes are becoming increasingly popular among Vietnamese people.