First of all, the first case is a blessing:
The first situation of upside-down blessing is the water tank, trash can and cabinet at home. On this issue, Dr. Zheng has said many times: about the water tank and trash can, because everything in the water tank and trash can has to be poured out of it. In order to avoid dumping the word "Fu" at home, they reversed the word "Fu". This practice is to skillfully use the homophonic "Tao" of "Tao" and use "Fu Zhi" to offset "Fu Qu" and express the yearning for a better life.
Second, the second situation of inverted blessing:
The second situation: on the cupboard at home. A cupboard is a place to store things. The word "fu" is pasted backwards, which means that the good news (and wealth) will always come to the home, the house and the cupboard.
Third, the third situation of pouring blessings:
1. If someone in the family dies unfortunately within one year, or other disasters, such as fire and car accident, occur. Friends who wish to transfer can post their blessings backwards;
2. In the old society, in order to please people, the word "Fu" was deliberately pasted backwards. The details are as follows:
When the children at home were able to read, the family deliberately put the word "Fu" upside down and asked the children to ask: Is our family's Fu copybook right? Children can get a candy if they say "luck has dropped"; If the child is unfortunately wrong, adults will take out the toilet paper prepared in advance from their pockets and take out the toilet paper to wipe their mouths. Moral: that sentence didn't come from the mouth, it doesn't count! And the word "fu" will be returned immediately after.
Fourth, the blessing on the door must be posted.
Except for the two cases mentioned above, not all blessings should be posted backwards, especially on the door. The word "Fu" on the gate must always be posted.
V. Legend of the word "Fu"
After textual research, the custom of posting the word "Fu" upside down came from Gongwangfu in Qing Dynasty. According to legend, the story goes like this:
On the eve of the Spring Festival one year, in order to please his master, the butler wrote many words of "Fu" as usual, which people posted on their warehouses and gates. A family member mistakenly posted the word "Fu" on the gate because he could not read. To this end, Prince Gong Fujin was very annoyed. Thanks to the eloquence of the butler, he knelt on the ground and said, "I often hear that Prince Gong has a long life, and now Dafu has really arrived, which is a good omen." Fujin thought after listening, no wonder passers-by said that Prince Gong's family was blessed (part two). He said auspicious words a thousand times, and gold and silver increased. When he was happy, he rewarded the housekeeper and blessed his family. Later, the custom of posting the word "Fu" upside down was introduced to people's homes from the top of the government. Everyone hoped passers-by or urchins would say, "Fu has arrived, Fu has arrived!
There is also a legend that the word "fu" is posted upside down among the people. Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, took the word "fu" as a secret memory and prepared to kill people. In order to eliminate this disaster, kind Ma Huanghou asked all the families in the city to put "Fu" on their doors before dawn. Naturally, no one dares to go against Ma Huanghou's will, so the word "Fu" is posted on every door. If one of the families can't read, turn the word "fu" upside down.