A "Wishing You Prosperity and Wealth" New Year's card featuring a theatrical character

This New Year's card features Guangdong English, and the most popular Chinese New Year greeting, "Wishing you prosperity and wealth." Guangdong English was a pidgin language that emerged in the mid-18th century, following the development of commercial interactions between China and the West through the port of Guangzhou. In 19th-century foreign biographies, there are frequent records of Chinese guests flocking to Western merchants' shops to pay their respects during the Chinese New Year, bowing respectfully and greeting them with the phrase, "Wishing you prosperity and wealth!"