Temples Offer Seed Money on First Day of Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year is all about celebration, food...and money! In Taiwan, seed money from temples is believed to be a way of securing future financial success.
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00:00 Moolah, money, cold hard cash.
00:04 No matter what you call it, during the Lunar New Year, people in Taiwan most often seek
00:08 to make their fortune.
00:10 One way people go about securing financial success this time of year is by going to temples
00:14 and receiving seed money.
00:17 These often nominal and symbolic coins are supposed to bless the holders with financial
00:21 fortune for the coming year.
00:23 People in Taiwan take seed money seriously.
00:26 One temple in New Taipei City prepared 100,000 pieces of lucky cash.
00:32 Crowds flocked to the scene in hopes of securing their own.
00:35 Some people traveled long distances to get there.
00:41 And once believers got to the temple, there was a long line of people waiting to collect
00:46 their coins.
00:49 Over in Zhanghua County, people began lining up outside a temple before the sun came up.
00:54 People braved the cold weather to get one of this temple's 5,000 limited coins.
01:03 In Taiwan, it's believed that how your Lunar New Year starts is how the rest of your year
01:08 will go.
01:09 Money may not grow on trees, but with a little seed money from the right temple, watered
01:14 with a fair bit of luck, it might begin to grow in your bank account.
01:17 Scott Huang and Leslie Liao for Taiwan Plus.
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