A Brilliant Fire Neutralizing the Years: Kuo Li-cheng, a specialist in popular culture who is today an advisor to ECHO magazine, points out that traditionally Chinese did not present gifts of money.
火旺壓歲錢民俗學家、現任漢聲雜誌社顧問的郭立誠指出，傳統上中國人送禮，還是以送「禮物」﹘﹘不是「禮金」﹘﹘為主。