1. Origin: Fu, from Shi Department. The Chinese characters in the Congshi department are mostly related to sacrifices, gods, prayers, and hopes. This can be confirmed from the word "福" in oracle bone inscriptions. The word "福" in oracle bone inscriptions means "holding wine in both hands and pouring it on the altar", which is an image portrayal of ancient sacrifices.
2. "Zuo Zhuan" says: "Fu means blessing." It means the blessing of the gods, turning misfortunes into blessings. Modern people’s interpretation of blessing is happiness and blessing.
3. Meaning: The current interpretation of the word "福" 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. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, the people.
4. Paste the word "福" upside down to express "happiness has fallen" and "blessing has arrived". Style The word "福" can be found in the bronze inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties more than 3,000 years ago. There are already different structures of the word "福". Later, with the emergence of ancient seal script, small seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script, running script and other fonts, the calligraphy of the word "福" became more and more popular and became more and more artistic.