说起红包,原本是除夕之夜长辈用红纸给儿孙包压岁钱的。相传,最早的压岁钱,出现在汉朝,也叫压胜钱,并不在市面上流通,而是铸成钱币形式的玩赏物,对孩儿有避邪的功能,钱币正面铸有“万岁千秋”、“去殃除凶”等字样。东汉时期蔡伦发明纸以后,人们渐渐用红纸包压岁线,故称红包。 Speaking of red envelopes, the original is New Year’s Eve elders with red paper for the grandchildren of the New Year’s money. According to legend, the earliest New Year’s money, appeared in the Han Dynasty, also called pressure to win the money, not in the market circulation, but cast into coins in the form of play objects, the child has the function of evil, coin front cast with “long live” , “To eliminate evil” and other words. After the Eastern Han Dynasty Cai Lun invented the paper, people gradually pressured the old line with red paper, so called red envelope.