Chinese inviking auspicious culture, hanging the word Fu upside down during the New Year's Festival, meaning"
The blessing has arrived
”。 However, the "Fu" character written by the Kangxi Emperor to Empress Xiaozhuang, which is now arrayed in prince Gong's palace in Beijing, is the only "Fu" in China that is not allowed to be hung upside down.
The word "Fu" written by Kangxi was called by Premier Zhou Enlai
"The First Blessing of China"
, folk also known as "
The first blessing in the world
It has a history of nearly 400 years. Regarding the origin of this word, there is such a touching story of filial piety.
In the twelfth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1673 AD), seeing that it was the 60th birthday of Empress Xiaozhuang, the empress dowager was seriously ill, and the tai doctor of the Imperial Hospital did not do anything well. Seeing that his grandmother was suffering from illness and torturing the Tai Doctors but helpless, Kangxi was furious and almost ordered all the Tai Doctors to be killed.
In desperation, Kangxi personally went through ancient books to find a way to save his grandmother. By chance, he saw a book with antiquity
"Emperor Cheng" please continue to live
It means that the emperor is the son of heaven, the body of all blessings and longevity, and can personally ask the Father for blessings to prolong the life of himself or others. Although it was not known which emperor had done this before, Kangxi decided to give it a try and ask his grandmother to continue his life to raise his life.
After three days of bathing and fasting, Kangxi lifted the imperial pen and wrote it in one go, and the book poured out the word "Fu" for filial piety to his grandmother, and stamped with the treasure seal of "The Treasure of kangxi royal pen", which has the meaning of good luck and the elimination of evil.
It is also miraculous to say that soon after Fu zi was sent to the empress, her illness miraculously improved. The Empress was very pleased and called this "blessing"
"The Source of Blessings"
, let people carve into the stone stele array in the house, as a royal treasure to guard. Fifteen years later ( 1688 ) , Empress Xiaozhuang died at the age of 75.
Kangxi and Qianlong are not the same, there are very few inscriptions in their lives, so the folk have them
"A word of Kangxi is worth a thousand gold"
statement. He asked Empress Xiaozhuang to continue her life to heal the empress, and people believed that this "blessing" word had heavenly fate and blessing fate, and could really bring blessings to people, so they called this "blessing" "the first blessing in the world".
Since then, Kangxi has also repeated the imperial pen several times, but he can no longer write a charm like "the first blessing in the world". In this way, the fu character invited for Empress Xiaozhuang was widely rumored to be "Heavenly Blessing", and was offered as a national treasure of the Great Qing Dynasty, becoming a universal "blessing" for Chinese.
Chinese use harmonic sounds to imply auspiciousness, and it is customary to hang the word Fu upside down during the festival
How could the emperor's imperial pen have been inverted
？ therefore
No matter how it is depicted in the future generations, it is not allowed to hang upside down, becoming the only "blessing" that cannot be hung upside down in the Chinese.
。
What is the magic of the "World's First Blessing" besides asking for a blessing to continue its life?
From the glyph point of view, this "Fu" glyph is narrow and long, narrow and thin, "thin" sound harmonic "shou", folk call it "long thin Fu", there are "
The blessing of longevity
" means. In addition, this "Fu" character also includes several Chinese characters:
Its right half is similar to Wang Xizhi's "Shou" character writing, and is considered to be "
There is life in the blessing, and there is a double life in the blessing
“。 Chinese has always paid attention to "blessed will have a life, and a life will be blessed",
The "First Blessing under Heaven" of the same body of Fushou solves the problem that these two characters cannot be combined into one due to the large difference in form and form, and has become a unique in all eternity.
In addition, the upper right corner of this word is like "many", the lower right corner is "Tian", and the left half is like the words "Cai" and "Zi". Taken together is:
Many children, many talents, many fields, many lives, many blessings
, can be described as the unity of the five blessings, creating the ancient and modern. Moreover, its "Tian" character is not sealed, and it has the meaning of "boundless blessing" and "boundless blessing". Therefore, later generations believe that this "fu" character of Kangxi is "the foundation of the five blessings and the source of ten thousand blessings", and countless dignitaries and ordinary families have hung this "blessing" in their homes to increase the longevity of the elderly and bring good luck to the family.
However, the Fuzi monument carved by Empress Xiaozhuang mysteriously disappeared during the Qianlong period, and could not be found until the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the founding of New China.
In 1962, in order to protect the cultural heritage, Premier Zhou Enlai gave instructions to rebuild Prince Gong's palace. In the Secret Cloud Cave in the back garden of the palace, the staff accidentally found the long-missing Fu zi monument. The prime minister was very happy to learn of this and gladly named it "the first blessing of China".
Why did the Fu Zi Monument appear in Prince Gong's mansion?
Originally, Prince Gong's mansion was originally the residence of Hezhen, and the Secret Cloud Cave under the Dicui Rock in the back garden of the palace was believed to be where the dragon vein was located, and the People of Hezhen hid the Fuzi Monument in it. When the Jiaqing Emperor was in Prince Gong's palace, he wanted to move the Fuzi Monument to the Imperial Palace, but because of the ingenious design of Hezhen, Jiaqing did not dare to destroy the dragon vein and move the Fuzi Monument out. In a fit of rage, Jiaqing ordered the people to seal the rockery. Since then, the "first blessing under the heavens" has never appeared again.
When Premier Zhou inspected the palace, he found that the shape of Di Cuiyan resembled the "Two Dragon Play Beads", and in accordance with the practice of "there are dragons and there must be royal treasures" in archaeology, the premier let people open the Secret Cloud Cave, so that the Fuzi Monument, which has disappeared for more than 200 years, can be seen again.
Prince Gong's mansion is the largest royal palace of the Qing dynasty, too
The largest quadrangle in the world
, has now become a tourist attraction. As the "treasure of the town garden" in the royal palace, the Fuzi Monument has also become famous all over the world, and countless tourists from home and abroad come to visit every day to ask for the Fuzi filial piety of the rubbing. Even some foreign dignitaries visiting China will also visit, and the foreign affairs department will also give the printed fu characters as a national gift to the DISTINGUISHed guests.
If you have time to travel to Beijing, it is recommended that you go to Prince Gong's mansion to ask for a "first blessing in the world", maybe it will bring you good luck?