The word \”福\” means happiness and blessing. Posting the word \”福\” during the New Year prays for a happy life.

The word \”福\” is a very auspicious character in Chinese folk. The original meaning of \”福\” is \”to pray to heaven.\” The word \”福\” in oracle bone inscriptions means \”holding wine in both hands and pouring it on the altar\”. Later, \”福\” specifically referred to the wine and meat used for sacrifices.

With the development of society, the word \”福\” in different structures appeared on the bronze inscriptions of the Zhou Dynasty. Later, with the emergence of small seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script and other fonts, the word \”福\” also changed more and more, becoming more and more artistic. At the same time, the meaning of the word \”福\” has gradually been extended and expanded.

For example, \”Book of Rites\” compiled by the Western Han Dynasty philosopher Dai Sheng believes that \”blessing\” means everything goes smoothly. During the Warring States Period, Han Feizi, a representative of Legalism, said in his \”Han Feizi\”: \”Full life and wealth are called blessings.\” The \”Fu\” here means good luck and blessing.

Today, our understanding of the word \”福\” means happiness and blessing. The word \”福\” has become the most beautiful and most desirable character in people\’s minds. Therefore, during the Spring Festival, every household must post the word \”福\”, large and small, on the door, walls and door leaves.

Packing the word \”福\” during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in my country. According to \”Meng Liang Lu\” written by Wu Zimu, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, as early as the Song Dynasty, people had already had the custom of \”posting spring cards\” during the Spring Festival. \”Spring card\” is the word \”福\” written on red paper, which is what we now call \”blessing card\”.

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 wish, people simply paste the word \”福\” upside down to express \”happiness has arrived\” and \”blessing has arrived\”. So where did the custom of pasting the word \”福\” upside down come from?

One theory is that this custom is related to Queen Ma of the Ming Dynasty. One year, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang planned to kill people using the word \”福\” as a codeword. The kind-hearted Empress Ma decided to avoid the tragedy of killing, so she ordered everyone in the city to put a label with the character \”福\” on their doors before dawn. Naturally, no one dared to disobey Queen Ma\’s will, so every house had a sticker with the character \”福\” on the door. One family accidentally posted the word \”福\” upside down.

The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to go to the streets to check, and found that every house had pasted the word \”福\” on it, and one family had posted the word \”福\” on it. The word \”Fu\” is pasted upside down. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and wanted to order the whole family to be executed. Fortunately, Empress Ma was smart. She hurriedly said to Zhu Yuanzhang: \”That family knew that the Holy Emperor was coming to visit today, so they deliberately pasted the label with the word \’福\’ upside down. Doesn\’t your coming here mean that blessing has arrived?\” After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang , feeling justified, ordered his release. In this way, a catastrophe was eliminated. From then on, people would stick the word \”福\” upside down when celebrating the Spring Festival, firstly to seek good luck, and secondly to commemorate Queen Ma.

Since then, pasting the word \”福\” upside down has been introduced into the homes of ordinary people. When people paste the word \”福\” upside down, they hope that passers-by or children will say a few words: \”Luck has come, blessing has come!\”

People except for thousands The word \”福\” is written tirelessly all over the place, and the ever-changing and exquisite paper-cuts with the word \”福\” push the artistic charm of the word \”福\” to a peak. For example, some draw two bats on the left and right sides of the word \”福\”, which means \”blessings everywhere\”; some of the characters \”福\” are composed of auspicious patterns such as deer heads or peaches, which contain people\’s thoughts on happiness, wealth and longevity. Pursuit and yearning.

People love the word \”福\” and infiltrate it into every detail of life, gradually forming

Today’s sharing is how to cut the word “福”. If you know how to cut the word “福”, your blessing will come. The final effect is as follows:

The folding method of paper-cutting with the word \”福\” adopts the eight-fold method. The details are as follows

1. Take a square piece of colored paper and fold it diagonally into a large triangle.

2. Follow the big triangle in the picture above The center line is folded twice into a middle triangle, as shown in the figure below.

3. In the same way, fold the middle triangle in half along the center line into a small triangle. Fold it in half three times in total. The final small triangle is eight. For folding method, see the picture below.

4. With the opening of the small triangle facing up and the hypotenuse facing down, start drawing the border pattern.

5. First cut out the border pattern, as shown in the picture below,

6. Unfold the red paper and draw the word \”福\” in the middle square space. Refer to the picture below and pay attention to the connection between the word \”福\” and the border.

7. Cut out the pattern with the word \”福\”, and then flip the red lettering over, and an auspicious window grille with the word \”福\” will become Appeared.

This word \”福\” is very beautiful, practice it several times , if you become proficient in cutting, you can stick the works directly on the window during the Chinese New Year. Cutting your own window grilles yourself is not to save a few dollars, but to experience the fun of paper-cutting and the sense of accomplishment gained from it. .

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