No one knows when money began to replace these traditional gifts. The only certain continuous tradition of using money to express sentiment -- perhaps the origin of the practice of combining usefulness and sentiment, material and spiritual--is the tradition of the "age neutralizing money" (cash given on New Year's day to children), which has been carried down to this day.
至於用錢代替禮物起於何時，現已不可考，唯一確定傳統以來一直是以錢來致意的，或許也是將實用與心意、物質與精神雙重用途連在一起的「始作俑者」，是流傳至今的壓歲錢。