A good way to write the word "福": narrow on the left and wide on the right. "绻" is drawn vertically upright and aligned with the upper point. "Fu" should be short at the top and parallel with horizontal strokes, "Kou" should not be large, and "Tian" should be wide at the top and narrow at the bottom; the top and bottom centers should be aligned.
1. The meaning of the word "福"
The current interpretation of the word "福" in the seal is "happiness", but in the past it meant "blessing" and "luck". Posting the word "福" 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.
2. Historical origin
Packing the word "福" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom. According to "Mengliang Lu" records: "On New Year's Eve, we shop for department stores, draw door charms, and welcome the Spring Festival..."; "Every family of scholars and common people, big or small, sweeps the door, removes dust, cleans the courtyard, and The door god hangs a bell, nails peach charms, puts up spring cards, and worships the ancestors." The "spring card" in the article is the "blessing" written on red paper.
Fu is an ancient Chinese character. Since ancient times, the word Fu in various fonts has emerged one after another with various changes. It can be called the best Chinese character. This phenomenon is also rare in the history of world writing. The word "福" contains auspicious blessings, so Chinese people love the word "福". There have been various "Pictures of Hundred Blessings", but "Seal of Thousand Blessings" is rare.
How to affix the word "福"
1. The door must be posted facing forward
The word "福" must be posted facing the door, which means "open the door to welcome blessings". Pasting it upside down will keep blessings out. The radical "绻" of the word "福" means praying to gods, and "畐" can be divided into "一", "口" and "田", that is, everyone in a family has food to eat, work to do, and study to do. But it's a blessing.
If the word "福" is pasted upside down, its original meaning will be lost. Pasting the word "福" upside down does not mean that the blessings have "arrived", but that the blessings have been "emptied out".
2. The situation of reverse posting
The situation of reverse posting mainly occurs in: cupboards in the house; trash cans and water tanks; toilets and other dirty places; when misfortune occurs at home. Folklorist Wang Zuoji said that in traditional culture, there are indeed places where the word "福" is pasted upside down, but only on trash cans, buckets and other utensils.