Guangdong tycoons hand out money for ancestral rituals, government rushes to resist

A tycoon in Guangdong returned home to pay respect to his ancestors and gave 4,000 yuan to each member of his clan on the spot. (Video Screenshot)

Qingming is a traditional festival in China to pay tribute to ancestors. According to the mainland media, a tycoon in Guangdong returned home to pay respect to his ancestors and gave out 4,000 yuan (RMB) to each member of his clan and 500 yuan to each stranger on the spot. After the incident, the town government issued a notice calling on villagers to consciously resist.

On April 3, a tycoon and his family went to a cemetery in Yangmei Village, Tongyu Town, Shantou, Guangdong Province, and handed out red envelopes to people at the cemetery.

Video from the scene shows a group of people bowing neatly around a grave, with a number of security guards at the scene to maintain order, standing at either end of the line, with others interspersed in the line during the period.

In front of the grave were piles of yuan, next to two stacks of bundles of red packets of skin, underneath were two boxes of fruit, next to some items for ancestor worship. After the worship ceremony, the person in charge of worship activities, the people who came to the tomb for cash “reward”.

The footage shows a man wearing red short sleeves, holding a large stack of yuan in his hand, pulled out a bundle from it and distributed to the villagers, next to the man is the same action, distributed to the villagers to receive red envelopes, the scene to receive red envelopes villagers lined up.

There are mothers holding children in the line, the villagers in the back of the line, anxious to move forward, for fear that the money are sent to shine. In the distance, there are still people rushing to the scene.

The scene to receive the red envelope villagers lined up in a long line. (Video screenshot)

Video in the handing out of banknotes of the tycoon boss hair has been gray, waist with a bag, a microphone in one hand, a megaphone in the other, and kept saying, “500, 500 per person, welcome to receive red envelopes.”

It is reported that if the villagers who belong to the same clan as the tycoon boss, come to memorialize the people, up to 4,000 yuan, and other people outside the former clan, regardless of gender, young and old, can receive 500 yuan in cash red packets, and even some elementary school students and young girls who rushed over in school uniforms are also in the queue to receive the money.

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The netizens have been hotly debated: “so high-profile luxury hair money behavior, is really an eye-opener”; “money to take care of, can be invisible cohesion family”; “the heart is good, can come to sweep the tomb of the people more or less have some Relative relations, rich know how to be grateful, give back to their own people, but unfortunately the occasion is not quite appropriate.”