公務員孩子壓歲錢的真實與誤解The Truth and Misunderstand of Public Servant’s Children’s Lucky Money
Media survey Beijing 90 children age ranging 10 to 13 years old, discovering that children received 4867 Yuan lucky money for average this year, increasing 5% over last year. Among them, the children whose parents’ occupations are public servants’ lucky money is the highest.
媒體調查北京90名10到13歲孩子發現，孩子們今年平均收到4867元壓歲錢，比去年上漲了5%。其中，父母職業爲公務員的壓歲錢最多。
Lucky money use to be human relationship, becoming a face game. As a result, it not only becomes family burden, but also contributed to children's psychological comparisons. Therefore, it becomes one of the topics that people focus on in spring festival.
壓歲錢有世俗人情的強大慣性，成爲一場面子遊戲，不但成了不少家庭的負擔，也助長了孩子的攀比心理。因此，成了每到春節總是引人關注的話題之一。
However, the investigation has some inner meaning. The conclusion that whose parents’ occupation is civil service getting the most lucky money for average is possibly being amplified. First of all, only 90 children as sample may not be able to cover all classes.
不過，調查頗具暗示意味，所形成的結論“父母職業爲公務員的壓歲錢平均水平最高”，大有“放大”的嫌疑。首先，單憑區區90個孩子的調查樣本，未必能夠覆蓋到所有階層的孩子。
Secondly, how much lucky money does the children get not only has relationship with the local custom, but also largely related to family incomes. For the good economic conditions family, their children surely can get more lucky money. And the families that their economic condition is not good also surely not have the ability to give more. Civil servants’ children can get a little more lucky money than the common people’s should be the fact, after all, the income of civil servants is in the upper level among all members in the society, but their outcome also higher. If the sample has corporate executive group, their children may get more lucky money than civil servants’ children.
其次，孩子壓歲錢的多與少，除了與一個地方的整體風氣有關之外，很大程度與家庭收支能力相關，經濟條件好的家庭，孩子過年拿到的紅包就厚一些，條件不好的想多給也做不到。公務員孩子的壓歲錢相對於平民百姓多一點應當是事實，畢竟公務員的收入水平在所有社會成員中處於中間偏上的位置，其人情往來的“經濟水平”也較高。但如果調查樣本中有一個企業高管羣體，他們的孩子拿到的壓歲錢應該比公務員孩子更多。
So, this news will have double interpretation value. One is "let lucky money return to essence", second is "let the public power return based". But in any case, we should not wear tainted glasses to look at civil servant's private life.
所以，這則新聞就有了雙重解讀的價值，一是“讓壓歲錢迴歸本質”，二是“讓公權力迴歸本位”。但無論如何，不應該戴着有色眼鏡看公務員的私人生活。
