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LIFENG ARCHIVE · Gallery 02 · Permanent

Lai See Culture Gallery

Understand lai see through Lingnan custom, dialect, and letters sent home from overseas.

Gallery 02 · Permanent

Lai See Culture Gallery

Understand lai see through Lingnan custom, dialect, and letters sent home from overseas.

  • PermanentType
  • LingnanRegion
  • Oral historyForm

Gallery units

Unit 01

Opening-year lai see

Who seals it, when it is given, and what is said: the living order of Cantonese lai see.

Collection object

Opening-year lai see

Lingnan · Start-of-year custom

Collection object

Wedding double-joy envelope

Wedding · Double joy

Collection object

New Year blessing envelope

Late Qing–Republic · Festival custom

Unit 02

Care that crossed the sea

Through qiaopi letters, see how lai see joined home and distance.

Collection object

Lai see with a qiaopi letter

Qiaoxiang · Letter and remittance

Collection object

Vietnamese Tết lì xì

Vietnam · Tết

Collection object

City archive envelope

Image transfer · Reissue

Unit 03

Auspicious words in Cantonese

Names and lucky phrases place the same paper packet in different relationships.

Collection object

Opening-year lai see

Lingnan · Start-of-year custom

Collection object

Wedding double-joy envelope

Wedding · Double joy

Collection object

Child’s New Year packet

Republican era · Child imagery