I read a piece of news from CGTN, an international channel of CCTV, that about as high as 92.7% of Mainland's interviewees responsponding to a survey that they exchanged digital red envelope during the Chinese New Year.  About slightly over half of the repondents' parents do not know how to use smartphones to send digital envelopes, among them 57% are willing to learn how to use the new method despite being not that tech-savvy themselves. 

Red Envelope, or Hongbao, is the kind of lucky money or gift money given away to the junior by the senior, sometime vice verse, during Spring Festivals.(People may give or take hongbao as a graft not necessarily during Spring Festival, but that's another story.)  It's been an intiimate interaction among families, relatives, and close friends, so it'd better give it or take it in person, not through air.  But in the busy lives of this modern society, digital hongbao may be a solution to help save people's precious time.  The report also urges old people to learn the steamlined method so as to bridge the generation gap between parents and children.

I just wonder is it also a prevailing practice in Taiwan for people to handle red envelopes digitally.  Maybe I am wrong, but I've never heard of such a pratice before in Taiwan.  The amazing thing is how come China's electronic business has mushroomed like hell in China's in just decades.  Well, if I were in Mainland now, I must be a bumbling Tubaozi(a yokel).