WeChat report reveals festival trends

More than 768 million people participated in sending and receiving hongbao, or red envelopes, through the nation's leading social media platform WeChat, during the six-day Spring Festival holiday from Feb 15 to 20, an increase of 10 percent year-on-year, according to a report released by WeChat on Wednesday.

Users from Guangdong, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces led the country in grabbing the largest number of red envelopes.

The most generous user this year was a man from Chongqing, who sent out 2,723 red envelopes in just six days. A man from Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi province, was one of the luckiest people during the Chinese New Year, receiving a total of 3,429 red envelopes.