By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-01-19 06:01:25 | Updated at 2025-01-19 09:12:05
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China tech giant Tencent reportedly gave giant sugar canes to its employees as Laba Festival gifts, a carnival day that marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year period.
Online video footage shows employees each holding a sugar cane in a glamorous office building, waiting for a worker to peel and cut them.
It was reported that the Shenzhen-based tech giant offered the gift as a New Year wish, because the Cantonese idiom dim gwo luk ze, literally translates as “straighter than sugar cane” and means “all is well”.
As the Year of the Snake begins on January 29, many Chinese companies are offering Chinese New Year gifts to employees.
The Post has gathered together some of the most unconventional and bizarre presents given to employees.
Lucky red knickers
Some people have posted online that their companies gave them red underwear as Lunar New Year gifts.
It is a traditional belief that wearing red underwear, socks and waistbelts on what is referred to as a person’s year of fate, which means every 12th year that the zodiac sign matches with the zodiac sign of their birth year, will bring them good luck.
