maybe everyone's tradition is slightly different..

like my parents always give us 2 envelopes.. one from mum and one from dad... but i've seen other families where they just give 1 envelope from both parents...

back in Taiwan we would hassle even friends who are older for red envelopes :D But everyone's a good sport so even giving us 10 NT we'd be content ^__^

LOL! giving red envelopes to ppl in the same generation sounds weird to me

^Yeah.

But after you give them, you have to bow (ke tou).

...mmk. Well I never did. But I was supposed to... xD