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LIFENG ARCHIVE · Gallery 01 · Permanent

Era Gallery

Place the red envelope back in the decade and household where it was given.

Gallery 01 · Permanent

Era Gallery

Place the red envelope back in the decade and household where it was given.

  • PermanentType
  • EraEntry
  • FamilyViewpoint

Gallery units

Unit 01

Late Qing to the Republic

From New Year money to paper envelopes: how names, form and print slowly settled.

Collection object

New Year blessing envelope

Late Qing–Republic · Festival custom

Collection object

Child’s New Year packet

Republican era · Child imagery

Collection object

Lai see with a qiaopi letter

Qiaoxiang · Letter and remittance

Unit 02

Family images after Reform and Opening

Certificates, New Year prints and commercial printing shaped a generation’s Spring Festival memory.

Collection object

Good-child certificate packet

1980s–90s · Family memory

Collection object

Little-red-flower certificate envelope

Childhood · School memory

Collection object

City archive envelope

Image transfer · Reissue

Unit 03

Contemporary envelopes

From paper craft to digital blessing: the medium changes, the act of giving remains.

Collection object

Good-child certificate packet

1980s–90s · Family memory

Collection object

AR dragon zodiac envelope

Augmented reality · Zodiac

Collection object

Generative pattern envelope

DIY · Parametric design