中国过年,为什么给压岁钱小孩子?
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As already said by tha, actually we say 给小孩子压岁钱 instead of 给压岁钱小孩子.
To summarise, originally, we gave money to children during the spring festival to protect them from some ghosts and monsters. Note that the ancient money was in metal such as bronze and with some different shapes.
But today, it's just something to make children happy.
Like the westerners give children presents in the christmas, we give children money in the spring festival.
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这是一个古老的传说,据说压岁钱的传统最早起源于汉朝,当时中国的货币是金属的,青铜之类的材料,上面印有一些动物的图案,还有文字,都是一些吉祥的话。
过年,年在中国古代是一种传说中的怪兽,每年除夕夜都会来伤害人类,所以人们燃放鞭炮,不过年这东西谁也没见过,火灾倒是不新鲜了。除了年兽以外呢,还有一种小鬼,黑身白手,除夕夜的时候会摸小孩子的脑门,被摸过之后的小孩子会发高烧说梦话,退烧以后脑子就坏了。
所以除夕夜,大家都整夜不睡,叫守岁,其实就是防止小鬼来摸他们的孩子,岁其实是谐音,原意是祟,坏事的意思,就是防止有人做坏事。但是每年这么熬着太辛苦了,有那么一家人想出个办法,用铜钱串在一起挂在小孩子的脖子上,小鬼来摸他的时候就被上面的金光吓跑了。
当然这只不过是个传说,却被延续了下来,现在小孩子给长辈们拜年,通常长辈都会给压岁钱,作为新年的礼物吧,虽然最后的终局可能会被父母强行管制,至少是一种祝福吧。
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i think it should be translated:“Security money” "lucky money" is also fabulous
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小时候只知道要压岁钱,也不清楚压岁钱具体是怎么来了,现在,豁然开朗! 谢谢分享。
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I think it can be translated to English as lucky money.
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