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If you are invited to a Chinese wedding, it’s customary to present a red envelope containing money for good luck.

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Sentence

Narrator

If you are invited to a Chinese wedding, it’s customary to present a red envelope containing money for good luck.

Study notes

How to use in different contexts

Giving Advice

When attending a Chinese wedding, remember to give a red envelope with money for good luck.

Describing Habits

At Chinese weddings, it's a tradition to present a red envelope containing money.

Asking About Others

Do you know the custom of giving red envelopes at Chinese weddings?

Sharing Hypotheticals

If I were invited to a Chinese wedding, I would bring a red envelope with money.

Rephrased versions

Formal

It is customary to offer a monetary gift in a red envelope at Chinese weddings.

Casual

At a Chinese wedding, you should give a red envelope with cash inside.

Simpler English

For Chinese weddings, give money in a red envelope.

Phrases to learn

red envelope

A red envelope containing money, given as a gift, especially in East Asian cultures.

customary to

Commonly done or practiced; traditional.