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On Chinese New Year's Eve, almost Chinese people are used to watching the CCTV Spring Festival Gala(春晚). , another thing is also becoming popular this year.
red envelopes(红包)to children is one of the traditions of the Chinese New Year. And now, the Internet companies, Tencent(腾讯)and Alibaba(阿里巴巴), also join in the traditional activity. So people can use
smart mobile phones through WeChat or QQ to send and grab red envelopes.
On the Chinese New Year's Eve of 2016, people were busy with shaking their smart mobile phones, trying to grab WeChat or QQ red envelopes as as they could. There about 420 million people grabbing and sending red envelopes online. While people TV, they took an active part in the activity, hoping to bring good luck for their relatives,and themselves. During the five-hour show, WeChat and QQ users shook their smart mobile phones up to about 10.1 billion times.
Alipay(支付宝)information showed that there were 100 million yuan each round to be traded on that day. It has been record so far. And now more and more people like grabbing red envelopes online.