Changing "Blessings" to "Benefits"

Qing Dynasty Putian gold lacquer wood carving "Baifu" steamed bun box

New Year greets the New Year, people meet to wish each other well and celebrate the New Year. The meaning of fu has long been defined by the ancients, and the Shangshu Hongfan chapter has the "five blessings": "One is shou, two is rich, three is kangning, four is good morality, and the fifth is the end of life." Later, due to avoiding secrecy, the Han Dynasty scholar Huan Tan changed the phrase "examination of the final life" to "many descendants" in the "New Treatise on Discernment", so most people today interpret it as "longevity, wealth, happiness, good morality, and many descendants".

This kind of praise for individuals has always been recommended that Guo Ziyi, who recreated the special honor of the Tang Dynasty, is enough to deserve it. Xu Jun, a Song dynasty, said: "How many meritorious names are there in ancient and modern times, and who has to be as blessed as the five blessings of the gong." He became the representative of the "blessed man" that the world envied.

The ancients called Fuzhou "blessed land", and the scope of "five blessings" has been expanded, evolving from the "blessing" of individual families to the "blessing" of the region. The so-called "earth spirit and human master", blessed people, people because of the weight of the earth, the earth because of the name of the person, has become a footnote to the "heavenly induction" theory. During the Republic of China period, Lin Sen jointly said for the famous bathhouse in Fuzhou: "Non-lucky people cannot come to Fudi, and only when there is a dragon vein will there be golden soup." "It's about the relationship between the blessed land and the blessed people, the golden soup and the dragon vein." All these statements show that the blessings of life should be symbolic. Because although the word "Fu" itself is only a cultural concept, it is an auspicious symbol that people expect, and the meaning is abstract, but the facts are believed and signed. People often prove it geographically and personally by means of ratio appendages.

Born in Fujian, living in Fuzhou, talking about happiness and happiness, he has his own confidence. The real meaning of saying "blessing" at the moment is that you should know happiness in being in the blessing. Fuzhou geographical shape victory, around the mountains and wilderness, Pai Jiang kissed the sea, since ancient times for the southeast metropolis, the former people called "Jiangcheng Fudi", is in terms of its geographical conditions and ecological environment. Because Fuzhou is located at the mouth of the lower reaches of the Minjiang River, the ancient past from the bay shoal through the vicissitudes of the great changes to the flat land fertile wilderness, but also because the river flows into the city and the environment, convenient transportation, the "blessed land" is called, there is a real reason.

The three main streams of the upper reaches of the Minjiang River (Jianxi, Shaxi and Futunxi) gather countless streams and streams, and the basin area is 6.5%. 10,000 square kilometers, accounting for nearly half of the province's geographical area, rushing downstream, into the Fuzhou Bay, the water flow is gentle, silt accumulation, creating a fertile Fuzhou Plain. According to the Book of Mindu, Fuzhou "takes the xiangjiang river with a lake, and the southeast is parallel to the sea." The second tide swallows, and the hundred rivers overflow. The mountains and rivers are beautiful, and all the capitals are not chaotic, and there is no famine." We are to thank the heavens and the earth for their gifts and the blessings of our ancestors.

"Surrounded by mountains and the homeland", Fuzhou is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and on the one hand, the sea has become a prosperous water traffic channel, and the "Jin'an Sea Road" has been a passage for overseas exchanges since ancient times. Regardless of the use of troops on the sea in the era of the Fujian And Yue Kingdom, from the Eastern Han Dynasty alone as the hub of the contribution and transfer of the Nanhai counties, the Tang Dynasty became an important town in the south of foreign exchanges, and the advantages of sea relations brought about by its geographical victory were visible, so it received the blessings of economic development, cultural and educational prosperity, and social prosperity, so the name of "blessed land" is really deserved.

Tang Zhi thought that Fuzhou was named after "Fushan Mountain, a mountain in its northwest". As for Fukuyama, he means nothing, so everyone is different. If you trace the story of the site selection of the first Jin'an County Shouyan Gao XinxinZicheng after the establishment of fuzhou, it seems to be justified. Shi Zhi records that before Yan Gao planned to build the city, he drew a picture and consulted the famous Kan public opinion Guo Pu, "Pu refers to its small mountain Fu Yue: 'It is Yicheng.'" After five hundred years of great prosperity. So I moved. "The suspicious thing is that Guo Pu was only 6 years old at the time, and it should be impossible to point fingers at it, and suspected that there was someone else who called Guo Shi by name, in order to say that god was his.

The Later Chronicle contains Guo's "Record of Moving the City", which is quite obscure and difficult to understand, and its opening sentence is: "The mulberry field is the sea, and the human world changes." Sixty-year-olds, when there is a harm. And its inscription can be regarded as an interpretation of the inscription, which is slightly easier to understand, the text is: "Taikang's load, the scythe of Ouji." Four-color prison city, three trails. Hong Xu nanliu, Ruilong Diying. Its main snail woman, now on the flower peak. A thousand years without staining, generations of prosperity. The states are eternal, prosperous and benevolent. The shape of its city is like a phoenix. The momentum is tight, and the soldiers are not hungry. In the face of famine, do not plunder, do not suffer from disasters. Its armor is full, abandoned and revived. "Individual texts may be incorrect, but their meaning is generally clear.

According to this interpretation, Fuzhou has the trend of "prosperity for generations" and the wind of "prosperity throughout the ages", and enjoys the blessings of not starving, plundering, and not staining. "Ruilong Diying" said the fuji of Fuzhou Dragon Vein and Fuxiang.

The Yuan Dynasty poet Wang Wei has a poem "Climbing the Nine Immortals Mountain": "After knowing goodbye, there are fewer landings, and there are many feelings in the blessed land." He regretted that he had left Fucheng and had less climbed the mountain, so he came to Fucheng again and felt more emotional, which showed his attachment to Fucheng. The poet Huang Zhencheng of the same generation also wrote that the city of Zhoucheng was called "Fucheng", which shows that Fuzhou City is already a famous area of Fuzhou that people admire. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yingshan, the author of the "Book of Mindu", wrote a poem praising the newly built Jade Emperor Pavilion on the Nine Immortals Mountain: "Haidian is called a blessed land, and who in the sacred building is envious of the Pot?" Calling the Three Mountains "blessed land" and using the Legend of the Ancients as the Three Immortals Mountain shows his joy and pride.

Of course, the most able to show the prosperity of the Three Mountains is also the famous poet Xu Bo in the late Ming Dynasty in the poem "Yecheng Huaigu" indulged in chanting", "Jia Di Zhumen Changle County, orchestral lights Jin'an City". He used the names of the county city "Changle" and "Jin'an" to interpret the specific meaning of Fuzhou's famous city, showing the prosperity of the city and the happiness of the people's livelihood, and the blessing of The City of Fujian presented a scene of social and people's tranquility. The ideals of the people, the pursuit of the rulers, are the same throughout the ages.

Historically, Fuzhou, as the name of the prefecture, once had the names of Jin'an, Changle, Tianxing, Futang, and Fu'an, all of which mean Anfu, and if the name of the county it belongs to, it can become the "five blessings": Fuqing, Fu'an, Fuding, and Yongfu. This is more than the "five blessings" of the ancients, and it is also humane.

The ancients' prayer for "blessing" was originally based on the individual, so there was the blessing of "five blessings and blessings", and there was also the advice of "asking for more blessings from oneself". Since the meaning of the word fu has expanded and the connotation has deepened, the world has also repeatedly deduced and deduced. No matter what generation, no matter whether it is noble or lowly, there is a pursuit of the "five blessings". In the country, there are supreme needs for governance, such as Jingbian Suiyuan, Changzhi Jiu'an, Guotai Minfeng, Xining Pingding, Fuxi Xiantong; the capital of dynastic era names is also seeking auspiciousness, such as Yonghe Kangle, Xingning Yongyan, Tongchang Longqing, Jingde Shaosheng, Huayun Jiacheng, Shunzheng Zhenxiang. These wishes are now preserved as historical vestiges in the imperial throne.

The largest number of signs of Xiangfu is permanently preserved in place names as geographical indications. These reflect the eternal pursuit and expectation of happiness in the past and the present, and can be said to be a quite distinctive chapter in traditional Chinese culture. No country or nation in the world has pursued the ideal of the well-being of its homeland and individuals so persistently and so intensely since ancient times.

The cultivation of virtue has existed since ancient times, and it is fierce today. Try to see today's enterprises, businesses, and private units, which one is not a hollow mind for the unit plus the title that reflects the auspiciousness of Fuxiang, pinning the hope of smooth development. This kind of Blessing culture tradition from the past and from the folk is deeply implanted in the hearts of the sons and daughters of China and embedded in all corners of the Chinese land. From the naming of children to the engravings on the mountains, from the golden oracle bones to the bamboo and wooden sticks, from the scriptures recited by monks and nuns to the prayers of officials and people, it is really everywhere and colorful.

Of course, Chinese people also deeply understand that happiness is not earned, and it all depends on manpower. It is not a gift from the emperor and the queen of heaven, but a blessing obtained by the hard work of people. People understand that labor is a blessing, virtue is a blessing, dedication is a blessing, and it is necessary to turn "blessing" into "benefit". "If you don't repay the practice of diligence and virtue, you will start reading for meritorious service." The meaning of life lies in consciously accumulating treasures and accumulating virtue and cultivating blessings.