Renqingbu: Red Envelope Ledger

How much goes in the red envelope? And who still owes you one? Renqingbu answers the first with a sourced range — Taiwanese weddings, funerals, new babies 彌月, Lunar New Year 壓歲錢, housewarmings 入厝, hospital visits — and remembers the second: every envelope given and received, and what a proper return looks like. On the day you are the host, it runs the gift table. No account. No sign-up. Nothing you type ever leaves your phone. WORK OUT THE AMOUNT In Taiwan the wrong amount is not a rounding error; it reads as a statement. So the app does not guess. Pick the occasion and your relationship, then, where custom varies, attending or sending, alone or with a partner, hotel, banquet hall or restaurant, north or center-south. You get the customary range with its source and date under it. Where sources disagree, the range widens instead of being averaged into false confidence; where only one…