In the Haifeng area of Guangdong Province, there is a saying to describe the hardship that the holiday brings for the poor-whom the festival often relieved of a whole year's worth of painstakingly accumulated surplus: "Those with money celebrate New Year; those without money get stripped bare."
廣東海豐也有俗語「有錢人過年，無錢人過劫」，來形容窮人過年的艱難，貧戶寒門過一次年，往往耗盡他們終年辛勤的積蓄。