Little boy in China gives 100-gram gold bars worth Rs 12 lakh to classmate as 'engagement gift'

The gold bars were worth $15,000, which is approximately Rs 12,47,870. (Representative Image)

A little boy in China gifted gold bars worth $15,000 (Rs 12,47,870) to a girl in his class as an “engagement gift”. His move left his parents baffled and amused social media users.

The incident happened in December in Guang’an, Sichuan province, southwestern China. According to a report by South China Morning Post, the excited little girl showed off the two 100-gram gold bars to her parents who were obviously shocked.

A video doing the rounds of Chinese social media showed the girl holding a red box with the gold bars inside. When her mother asked what was inside, the girl innocently replied, “I don’t know.”

The woman told the boy’s parents the next day who apologised. “The boy’s parents said they had told their son that the gold bars were intended for his future wife, but they didn’t expect him to secretly take them out and give them to our daughter,” the girl’s mother said. “The whole situation was both amusing and bewildering for them.”

The amusing incident left social media users in splits. “This little boy really has guts, just casually giving away 200 grams of gold like that,” a user wrote.

Another user commented, “Is this like giving a 100,000 yuan (US$14,000) dowry?”

“My mother-in-law just gave me a bracelet, and my son asked if he could give it to a classmate because he thought it looked nice. I suppose I should be ‘grateful’ he thought to ask me first,” a third user remarked.

A fourth user added, “In the first year, my daughter’s classmate, a boy, gave her 200 yuan in cash. I promptly returned the money to the boy’s parents that same evening.”

Meanwhile, in May, a kindergarten boy from Shanghai gifted a girl with a Bulgari ring valued at 19,000 yuan, which is approximately Rs 2,24,616. When the girl’s parents returned the ring, he innocently offered another handmade ring as a token of his affection, South China Morning Post reported.