A young woman poses with a large heart-shaped bouquet decorated with bundles of bank notes. (Photo/Chongqing Morning Post)
(ECNS) - A bank manager has thrown cold water on cash-folded bouquets used by a man to celebrate the birthday of his girlfriend in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.
Video footage that stormed the Internet showed a young woman posing with a large heart-shaped bouquet on a podium decorated with bundles of bank notes.
It’s reported that it took seven people more than 10 hours to make the decoration using 334,400 yuan ($51,600) in bank notes. The number 3,344 sounds like shengsheng shishi, which means a whole life in the Chinese language.
A manager with the People’s Bank of China Business Management Department in Chongqing said the use of bank notes to make the bouquet is suspected of violating Chinese banking law that stipulates that “it is prohibited to deliberately destroy or damage the Renminbi” and the regulation that “it is forbidden to damage RMB notes or to hamper their circulation.”
Banking authorities also said because the Renminbi is legal tender in China, it’s everyone’s due responsibility and obligation to take care of the currency. An official noted there are many manifestations of romance but none should be against the law.
