This article is from WeChat official account:Phoenix WEEKLY (ID: phoenixweekly), author: abscisic acid, Yan Ruyi, edit: blue flowers, from head Figure: vision China
What do you want to do most during the long vacation?
Going out to travel, or lying flat and chasing drama?
Unexpectedly, no matter how good the plan is, it will eventually be disrupted by various wedding invitations…
During holidays, friends get together to get married, which hurts the single dog’s heart, but it also hurts the wallet.
For example, the owner of the following circle of friends.
Being funny, I couldn’t help but feel distressed for his wallet.
After a long vacation, how is your wallet? How much money did you take?
1. The wedding holiday is a severe test of the social animal wallet
For the social animals who don’t have many long holidays, the National Day Committee is really a good day for big business.
The autumn climate is suitable, and the vacation is free, enough for people to arrange weddings, rehearsals, and weddings.marriage. Especially this year, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been added, a full eight-day holiday, and two to three days for the newcomers to rest.
However, for the well-known friends, this holiday may be busier than the newcomers…
Think about the amount of money to be given to each wedding banquet, it can be regarded as a real fulfillment, the saying that network is money.
Mr. Lei from Bijie, Guizhou, received 23 invitations within ten days before and after the National Day.
Mr. Lei wrote every banquet that he needed to attend and the corresponding gift money on the inside of a box.
As soon as the picture comes out, the screen is refreshed instantly.
Mr. Lei’s daughter responded that the 23 banquets are not all weddings, but on the 1st, Mr. Lei needs to catch 8 banquets. Among them is a wedding banquet for a niece, and a wedding banquet for a niece.
The 23 games in the picture are incomplete, and there are several banquets Mr. Ray did not count.
No matter what you say, rushing to 8 banquets a day, this National Day is probably all wasted on the road-not on the way to travel, but on the way to the wedding banquet.
However, in addition to sympathy, there is no lack of envy in the comments: 23 weddings cost only 4800 yuan, where is the price so low?
Indeed, how much money is appropriate is a national problem. On the Q&A website, the number of questions, concerns and views are high.
In the earliest days, the meaning of “money” was that in the age of material insufficiency, there were major events in the family for weddings and funerals. Everyone in the village helped with the members, pooled money or items, and worked together to get things done. It was mutual assistance. The embodiment.
According to research, it is said that the original origin of element money is Zhu Yuanzhang. He is a farmer who knows how difficult it is for poor people to get married and funeral. The standard he set at that time was “one mile of households, every household or consistent payment.”
Zhu Yuanzhang’s treasure banknotes were inflationary in his later years, and the always treasure banknotes were about 80 yuan today. In other words, the “founder” of Menqian thinks that 80~400 yuan is enough for a family.
However, to 20In 17 years, an organization produced a “national wedding red envelope map”, and there are only a handful of regions with a value of less than 500.
Needless to say, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, even Xinjiang’s money is as high as 600 yuan.
In comparison, Tibet is still simple, only 200 yuan, plus the full blessing of Hada, even if it is delivered.
Almost all of the money in the eastern region is higher than 500 yuan. Among them, the economically prosperous Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai bid the most, and the money premium is serious. On the contrary, in inland areas such as Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, it still stays at 100-200 yuan. Li is light and affection is heavy.
Guangdong also lives up to its reputation as a “small red envelope”. Not only is the profit for the Spring Festival small, but even the money for marriage is only 100 yuan.
Some netizens said that many areas in Guangdong do not charge money for marriage at all. When you receive a red envelope from a guest, touch it or fold a corner to indicate that you have received the blessing, and then it will be returned.
In the eyes of the Cantonese, guests can come to their weddings to save face, as long as the blessings are received, of course no money will be charged.
For a time, Guangdong was anointed by netizens of the bitter man Qian Jiuzhen.
Nowadays, when the material is not so scarce, the high element of money is not very helpful to the newly married couple, but it brings a lot of burden to the people attending the wedding.
Many people use the size of their money to measure friendship and family affection. Therefore, there are not a few people who turn against friends and do not interact with each other.
What’s more, even if the money is used as a wedding crowdfunding, you need to consider the factor of rising prices when returning gifts.
After all, the money is also used to buy a house. The house price in 2010 is not the same as the house price in 2015.
Instead of thinking about the 500 yuan that the other party gave back then, how much gift you should add in return, it is better to develop a system of “members of money and white bars”.
The red envelope is directly stuffed into the 800 yuan white strip, and when I get married, I can still return it.
Zero cost, zero burden, the amount of white bars can fluctuate according to the relationship between the two. It really serves multiple purposes.
Second, the wedding you don’t want to attend, in fact the new couple don’t want to do it either
The people who attended the wedding complained, and the people who held the wedding were actually reluctant.
The 52-year-old Auntie Zhang once calculated a marriage account. She spent more than 1.1 million yuan to marry her daughter.