Feng Sheng Shui Qi

Red envelopes are key to the atmosphere of Chinese New Year. Family and friends exchange red envelopes to sincere wishes and hope. Outside of China, similar customs have been adopted across parts of Southeast Asia and many other countries with a sizable ethnic Chinese population.

Today, the Chinese mobile app Wechat popularized the distribution of Wechat red envelope via mobile payments over the internet. This method of distributing red envelopes is now quite popular in the country.  In oppositions to this digital red envelope, I am tracing back the very time that my family and friends exchanged physical red envelopes by hands, as an ritual, that we were all excited about. Exchanging a physical red envelope with textures arouses a sensation that anything else couldn’t replace.

This red envelope is especially designed for the younger generation, who use mobile payments more than anyone else.