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The word "fu" is now interpreted as happiness, but in the past it meant good luck and good luck. No matter now or in the past, people's longing for a happy life and their wishes for a better future are pinned on the New Year. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, the people simply put the word "fu" upside down, indicating that happiness has arrived.
There is also a folk legend that the word "fu" is posted backwards. Ming Taizu used the word "Fu" as a secret memory to prepare for the murder. In order to eliminate this disaster, the good-hearted horse queen asked all the families in the city to post blessings on their doors before dawn. Naturally, no one dares to go against Ma Huanghou's will, so the word "Fu" is put on every door. If one of the families can't read, turn the word "fu" upside down.
The next day, the emperor sent people to the streets to check and found that every family had posted the word "Fu", and another family had posted the word "Fu" upside down. When the emperor heard the news, he was furious and immediately ordered the body guard to cut down the house. Seeing that something was wrong, Ma Huanghou quickly said to Zhu Yuanzhang: The family knew that you were visiting today, and deliberately reversed the word "Fu". Isn't that what "Fu" means?
When the emperor heard the truth, he ordered his release, and a great disaster was finally eliminated. Since then, people have turned the word "Fu" upside down for good luck and in memory of Ma Huanghou.
There are also folk people who carefully make the blessing characters into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp yue longmen, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, and so on. In the past, there was a folk saying that twenty-four families in the twelfth lunar month wrote big characters. In the past, most Chinese characters were handwritten, but now they are sold in markets and shops.