彩票是一种具有投机性质的票券,购买者中奖后可获得丰厚的奖金或奖品。清末时期,社会动荡,各种新生事物纷纷涌入,受外国彩票的启发,国库空虚的清政府以赈灾为名,以官办的形式发行彩票,俗称“发财票”。到后来,民办公司和外资公司也开始经营彩票,成为时人竞相购买的 A lottery ticket is a speculative ticket, and the purchaser wins huge bonuses or prizes after winning. In the late Qing Dynasty, social turmoil and influx of new things came under the inspiration of foreign lotteries. In the name of disaster relief, the Qing government, with its empty state treasury, issued lottery tickets in the form of government-run forms, commonly known as “fortune tickets.” Later, private-owned companies and foreign-funded companies also started to run lottery tickets, becoming the people who competed to buy