Red Packets/Envelopes Ang Pow for Snake Year (6 pcs)

These bright red packets designed for the Chinese New Year of the Snake year 2025 are embossed with a golden image of a Snake and auspicious Chinese wordings.

A Red Packet or "Hong Bao" in Chinese or in modern days, any bright auspicious colored packet such as gold or yellow is simply an envelope with money or jewelries in it and given during special Chinese special occasions such as Chinese New Year, weddings and birthdays as gift, wishing them good prosperity luck, happy marriage or longevity, depending on the occasion. It can also be gifted to someone going far away for holiday, work or study to wish them safe journey.

These packets are often decorated with appropriate lucky symbols suitable for different wishes, for example a Double Happiness symbol for wedding, the character "Shou" or Longevity for an elderly's birthday etc. Red is often used because it symbolizes good luck and believed to ward off evil spirits.

Chinese people usually like to use a number that ends with 8 e.g. $28, $68, $88, $128 etc as this number sounds like good fortune. However, the number 4 is avoided as it sounds similar to "death" and is therefore inauspicious and frowned upon.