According to the report — ’New Year on the fingers’ jointly published by Ant Financial Services and China Business Network, sending red envelopes online has become a new custom for people to celebrate the Spring Festival. Every user of Alipay in Beijing sent 643 yuan worth of red envelopes on average over the New Year of 2016.

据蚂蚁金服联合第一财经商业数据中心推出的一份报告——《指尖上的新年》，发电子红包成为中国人庆祝春节的新风尚。在2016年春节里，北京的支付宝用户人均发出了价值643元的红包。

Data published by WeChat shows that 32.1 billion red envelopes were sent and received from New Year’s Eve to the fifth day of Lunar New Year, an increase of almost ten times on the same period last year. Among them, 250 million red envelopes were sent in Beijing and made it the city sending largest number of red envelopes in China.

微信公布的数据显示，从除夕到大年初五的六天时间里，红包总收发次数达到321亿次，比去年同期增加了近十倍。其中，北京以2.5亿次成为发红包次数最多城市。

In recent years, sending red envelopes online already had become a good match with the Spring Festival. Many older people have followed the trend and participated in the fun. During the Spring Festival of the Monkey, people under the age of 55 sent a total of 166 million red envelopes; people over 55 years old sent 96 million red envelopes.

近年来，网上发红包已成为过春节的最佳搭档。许多老年人都紧跟潮流来分享这份乐趣。猴年春节期间，55岁以下的人共发送红包1.66亿次，55岁以上的人发送红包达9600万次。

"I play on WeChat to follow you rather than catch up with the trend of the times," many elder people said. Many young people immerse themselves in a world of mobile phones and ignore face-to-face communication. Old people are trying out the new way to connect with children and experience its more convenient consumption methods.

多数老年人是这样说的：“我玩微信不是为了跟上时代，而是为了跟上你。”很多年轻人沉浸在手机的世界里，而忽视了面对面的沟通。老年人们也在努力尝试用新的方式与孩子们沟通，体验这种更便捷的消费方式。

Source: news.iyuba.com