The origin and meaning of pasting the word "福" upside down: In memory of Queen Ma, the character "福" is pasted upside down, which means "blessing has arrived".
There is also a legend among Chinese folk that the word "福" is stuck upside down. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, used the word "福" as a secret sign to prepare for murder. The kind-hearted Empress Ma decided to avoid the tragedy of killing, and ordered everyone in the city to put a label with the character "福" on their doors before dawn. Naturally, no one dared to disobey Queen Ma's will, so every door with the word "福" was posted.
One family was illiterate and pasted the word "福" upside down. On the next day, the emperor sent someone to check the streets and found that every family had pasted the stickers with the character "福", and one family had the character "福" upside down. The emperor was furious after hearing the report, and immediately ordered the imperial guards to kill the entire family.
When Empress Ma realized that things were bad, she hurriedly said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "that family knew you are coming today, so they deliberately turned the label with the character "福" upside down. Doesn't that mean "luck arrives"?" When the emperor heard this, It made sense, so he ordered the people to be released, and a catastrophe was finally eliminated. From then on, people began to paste the character "福" upside down, firstly to seek good luck, and secondly to commemorate Queen Ma. This is the origin of blessing.
Style of the word "福":
As early as more than 3,000 years ago, there were already different structures of the word "福" on the bronze inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Later, with the emergence of ancient seal script, small seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script, running script and other fonts, more and more calligraphy with the word "福" became more and more artistic. "" focuses on various ways of writing the word "福", which is pleasing to the eye.
The "Hundred Blessings Picture" has two forms: one is a special-shaped pattern of characters based on seal script, that is, the circular pattern of the word "福" that has been circulated among the people for a long time. The font shape is steady and even. Qi, dignified, extremely interesting and charming; one is a rectangular pattern composed of hundreds of different writing methods of Zhen, Cao, Li and Zhuan. The word "福" is not only an object used by people to pray for peace and good luck, but also reflects the breadth, depth and various changes of Chinese calligraphy.