Welcome the New Year and bring blessings! However, some folklore experts pointed out that the word \”福\” cannot be pasted casually. Why is this?

\”Luck has arrived\” is a traditional custom among the people. Every Spring Festival, every household will post \”bad luck\” of various sizes on the door of their house or the wall of their yard. Why should we post blessings upside down? Many people use homophones to describe blessings, which means they are blessed. So, where did this custom come from?

Before talking about this, let’s first talk about how the blessing comes from? The actual inclusion of the act of pasting blessing characters into traditional customs originated from Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. It is recorded in \”Hao Yun Lou Miscellanies\” that the creation of Spring Festival couplets dates back to Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. Since Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he loved the excitement very much. Not only did he want every household to put up Spring Festival couplets, but also put up the word \”Fu\”. The reverse blessing also has something to do with him.

It is said that when Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang first proclaimed himself emperor, he wanted to arrest everyone in the city who refused to obey his management. Kill. In order to distinguish these people, he sent his men to secretly tell those who obeyed him to mark their homes with the word \”Fu\” on them. Unfortunately, Empress Ma found out about this. Empress Ma was a commoner. In order to protect her own people, she secretly sent people to tell the people in the city to put \”福\” on their doors before dawn. As a result, one family was illiterate and pasted the character \”福\” upside down. The next day Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to the streets to checkWhen I was there, I found that every household had the word \”福\” posted on it, except this one, which had the word \”福\” upside down. When Zhu Yuanzhang found out, he was very angry and wanted to kill the whole family.

After Empress Ma found out, she had an idea and said to the emperor: They must have known that you were coming today, so they had deliberately pasted the label with the character \”福\” upside down. \”Do you mean?\” When Zhu Yuanzhang heard that it made sense, he ordered his release. From then on, people pasted the character \”福\” upside down, not only to express good luck, but also to express their gratitude to the kind Empress Ma.

In addition to Queen Ma’s statement, there is another theory that comes from Prince Gong’s Mansion in the Qing Dynasty. One year during the Spring Festival, the butler in the palace wrote a lot of the word \”福\” in order to please his master. I sent someone to post it on the warehouse and the door. It turned out that there was a servant who couldn\’t read. Prince Gong\’s son Fu Jin saw it and felt it was unlucky. The chief steward had an idea and explained to Fujin, \”I often hear people say that Prince Gong\’s longevity and good fortune are great. , now the great fortune has really arrived (falling), this is an auspicious sign. \”Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Fujin was very happy and rewarded the housekeeper and the person who posted the word \”福\” upside down.

Both these two stories are homophonic for \”福来\”, which means blessing has arrived. However, some folklore experts have pointed out that the word \”福\” cannot be pasted casually. This is another What kind of statement is it?

In traditional culture, \”Fu\” is \”pasted upside down\” on trash cans, buckets and other utensils. Because garbage must be thrown away. In the past, taking out the garbage was called throwing away disasters. When taking out the garbage, the word \”Fu\” would be correct. Also That is to say, if you throw away disasters and poverty, blessings will come.

About this point, there is also a detailed explanation on Baidu Encyclopedia. There are three main places where the word \”Fu\” is pasted upside down: the first place is on water tanks and trash cans. The reason is also explained above. The second place is on The cabinets in the house are used to store items. Putting the word \”Fu\” upside down here means that blessings will always be at home. The third place is on the doors of livestock sheds, such as cowsheds and pig pens, which means blessings have arrived. .

Secondly, let’s look at the glyph structure.

The radical of the word \”福\” is \”礻\”, which means praying to God.\”畐\” can be divided into \”一\”, \”口\” and \”田\”. To put it simply, a family can have food in one mouth, which is a blessing. If the word \”福\” is pasted upside down, the original meaning will be lost. It’s not that the blessing has arrived, it’s that the blessing has been poured out.

At one moment it was said that it was okay to post blessings, and at another it was said that it was not allowed to be reposted Fu, what should the correct way of posting blessings be?

The correct time to post the word \”Fu\” is in the afternoon of the thirties, before the sun sets. The order is from the outside to the inside, first stick the head blessing, which means you will see blessings as soon as you raise your head; then stick the door blessing, so that the blessings will stay firmly in your home; and finally stick the blessing upside down, which means that the blessings of the year will flow in from the outside. . Moreover, the size of the character \”福\” also becomes smaller from the outside to the inside.

The above is about the origin and emphasis on the inversion of blessings. What are the different opinions in everyone’s hometown? Woolen cloth? Welcome to share with me in the comment area.

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