The Year of the Rabbit is coming with the lovely blessing word. Before the New Year, you can directly write a word "福" to express the happiness and beauty in the world. The blessings that the ancients referred to include wealth, honor, longevity, education, etc., which can be called blessings. Fu culture is a folk culture originating from China. Its coverage is very wide. With the changes and development of China's historical civilization for thousands of years, it has now penetrated into every bit of people's lives. What it reflects is the life concept and values ????of our entire Chinese nation.
The current interpretation of the word "Fuyin Fu" is happiness, but in the past it meant blessing and luck. Pasting blessing characters during the Spring Festival, whether now or in the past, expresses people's yearning for a happy life and their wishes for a better future. During the Spring Festival, every household will paste large and small blessing characters on their doors, walls and lintels. Posting blessing characters during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom. The People's Daily and People's Daily Online have repeatedly popularized the correct way to post the word "福": the word "福" must be posted squarely on the door, which means opening the door to welcome blessings.
Pasting the character "福"
Pasting the character "福" is a traditional annual custom. During the Spring Festival, every household has to paste large and small blessing characters on their doors, walls and lintels. Posting blessing characters during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom.
Fu is one of the oldest texts, with a history of about three thousand years. The word "福" in oracle bone inscriptions is the shape of a wine vessel placed in front of a god, because the ancients used wine to symbolize a wealthy life.
The current word "Fu" is composed of Shi, Yi, Kou and Tian: Shi refers to gods; Tian refers to farming and hunting; Yi, according to the explanation of "Shuowen": Yi, Chu Tai In the beginning, Tao stood in one, created heaven and earth, and transformed into all things. The word "kou", "Shuowen" said: "Kou" is the reason why people speak and eat. This word "blessing" expresses the people's desire to pray for land to meet their food and clothing needs.
Post the word "Fu" in front of the door. The written record is "Mengliang Lu" written by Wu Zimu in the Song Dynasty: No matter whether the family is big or small, they all sweep the door to remove dust and filth, clean the courtyard, and change the door god. Hanging bells, nailing peach charms, pasting spring cards, and offering sacrifices to ancestors. Posting spring cards means writing the word "blessing" on red paper and sticking it in front of the door. It can be seen from this that the custom of pasting blessing characters has started at least in the Southern Song Dynasty and has a long history.