{"id":34855,"date":"2022-02-04T19:28:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=34855"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:28:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:28:25","slug":"lai-see-envelopes-contained-hell-money-for-the-dead-in-lunar-new-year-blunder-at-university-of-torontounited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=34855","title":{"rendered":"Lai see envelopes contained \u2018hell money\u2019 for the dead, in Lunar New Year blunder at University of TorontoUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe University of Toronto has apologised after lucky lai see packets containing \u201chell bank notes\u201d were distributed at a student residence, in an attempt to celebrate the Lunar New Year that went horribly awry and offended some students.Distributing hell money \u2013 fake currency which is burned to commemorate the dead \u2013 is considered gravely offensive in Chinese culture. Triad gangsters sometimes do so as a death threat or a form of intimidation.The recent blunder at the Graduate House residence\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3165902\/lai-see-envelopes-contained-hell-money-dead-lunar-new-year?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe University of Toronto has apologised after lucky lai see packets containing \u201chell bank notes\u201d were distributed at a student residence,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}