Sticking the word "Fu" in the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom. According to Liang Lu's Dream, "When I was young, in your hometown, I set up a shop, painted peaches and spent the Spring Festival ..."; "Scholars, big or small, should sweep the floor, remove dust and filth, clean the family, change the door gods, hang Zhong Kui, nail peaches, stick spring cards and worship their ancestors." The "spring card" in the article is the "blessing" written on red paper.
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According to legend, the folk custom of posting "blessings" began when Jiang Taigong became a god. Immortals from all walks of life were assigned properly, and Jiang Taigong's wife Ma Shi also came to beg for the throne. Helpless, she was given the name of "poor god", stipulating that anyone who posted the word "fu" could not go. As a result, ordinary people put up a "blessing" and set off firecrackers to drive away this unpopular "poor god".
The reason why the word "fu" is posted upside down is said to have originated from Gongwangfu in Qing Dynasty. On the eve of the Spring Festival that year, as usual, the big housekeeper wrote several big "blessings" and asked people to stick them on the door of the palace. An illiterate person pasted the word "Fu" upside down. Prince Gong Fujin was very angry and wanted to punish him with flogging. But this big housekeeper is an eloquent man, and quickly knelt down and declared, "I often hear that Prince Gong lives a long life, and now Dafu has really come." This is a sign of happiness. When Prince Gong heard this, he felt reasonable and thought, "No wonder passers-by say that Prince Gong is blessed (healthy). After speaking Kyrgyz for a thousand times, gold and silver increased. A slave without any knowledge really didn't expect such a move! So I gave the housekeeper and servant fifty taels of silver. "。 What a happy thing!
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