The female then covers the eggs with gravel and repeats the process. Adult salmon guard the redd site until their death. In late winter, eggs hatch from the redds. Young alevin in the gravel live off the nutritious yolk sac that hangs off their undersides for up to four months.
Giving red envelops or Hongbao is a custom at Chinese New Year. Red envelopes always contain money in China, and are given, most commonly, to kids from their parents, grandparents, and others as Chinese New Year gifts. They are called hongbao in Mandarin and lai see in Cantonese.
Buyers were actually purchasing shares in a Cayman Islands shell corporation, not in the Alibaba group, as China forbids foreign ownership of its companies. Alibaba's consumer-to-consumer portal Taobao, similar to eBay.com, features nearly a billion products and is one of the 20 most-visited websites globally. The Group's websites accounted for over 60% of the parcels delivered in China by March 2013, and 80% of the nation's online sales by September 2014.