There is one thing that is indispensable for the Purchase of New Year goods in the New Year, and that is the word Fu. The blessing characters pasted on the door, the blessing characters engraved on the hanging money, the blessing characters cut on the window flowers, and even the blessing characters printed on various gift boxes... There are so many Chinese characters with auspicious meanings, why do people have a special love for the word Fu during the Spring Festival? At the moment when every household began to post the word Fu, share an article by Mr. Feng Jicai on the Spring Festival and see why he said that the word Fu is the deepest Symbol of the Spring Festival.
Fu zi is the deepest Spring Festival symbol
Wen / Feng Jicai
On the coldest days of the year, when the large and small blessing characters written with ink pens on the diamond-shaped red paper come into view more and more, don't ask, naturally the Spring Festival is coming. The word Fu brings the information and breath of the year that people are familiar with in their hearts, evokes our unique feelings of the year, and also shows the deep meaning of the year once a year.
Near the Spring Festival, people must go to the market to choose the word Fu
Fu zi is not an ordinary word in the folk, this word - the meaning is profound.
It contains many, many things, almost all the good things. It is not only abundant food and clothing, wealth and prosperity, but also health and peace, harmony and satisfaction, but also the peace of the country and the people, and the peace of the world. However, life will never be perfect, nor will everything be as desired, there are opportunities and accidents, and even bad luck, which increases the psychological dependence of people on the word of blessing in their hearts. Blessing is a good thing and a good luck. There is no word that can be entangled like the word fu Chinese strong desire for a happy life and dreams. It is the most idealized Chinese character for the majority of people. Usually, people carry these beautiful expectations in their hearts, and when the new year, a new round of blank days, comes, they can't help but take out these expectations in their hearts and turn them into a blessing word, upright, thick pen and heavy ink written on the big red paper, pasted on the door panels, the walls and the most conspicuous places outside the house. This allows us to know that the most important thing for people in the New Year is not to eat, drink and wear, but to be kind and hopeful about life.
Festivals are people's spiritual life.
There are many legends about the origin of the word Tifu, but what I believe is the principle of folklore, which is the result of thousands of years of generations, conventions, and collective recognition, and it is deeply and invisibly hidden in the blood of all Chinese as a way of mind. It is not imposed by anyone, no one can change it, and no one will reject it. As a result, the folk custom of the word Fu, including the word Fu, has become a fundamental culture for us.
Pick a hanging coin inscribed with a blessing character and paste it
In recent years, there have been people who want to design Spring Festival symbols. Obviously, such well-meaning people do not understand that the symbols of the festival are even more conventional. It was originally in the festival. For example, the Christmas tree of Western Christmas, the pumpkin lamp of Halloween, the blessing character of the Chinese Spring Festival, the dragon boat of the Dragon Boat Festival, the jade rabbit of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the lantern of the Lantern Festival, etc., have long been symbolic symbols that people like to hear and have deep holiday connotations. The symbols of the festival are not designed by anyone, but arise naturally from the festival life and its needs. As long as people need it, it will not disappear and will continue to be created. I remember that many years ago, a reporter from CCTV visited me in the former New Year goods market of Tianjin Tianhou Temple, and he wanted to understand how the people here celebrate the New Year. I casually showed him a small blessing word from a paper-cut stall, which was a little bigger than the fingernails of the thumb. This reporter asked me where such a small fu character was posted, and I said it was pasted on the computer. On weekdays, the computer screen is black, and when the New Year is pasted, the small blessing word is pasted up, and the New Year's eve suddenly comes. This miniature blessing word was not available before, but people recreate it because of the emotion of the festival, which goes along with tradition.
Moreover, folklore is all participatory, just like this blessing word written on red paper; how to write how the real grass is beautiful, allowing people to express their wishes. Because the word of blessing is written to oneself; it is a kind of self-consolation, self-support and encouragement, and also to pass on one's interest in life to others.
Paste the word "Blessing" for the New Year
Chinese is in awe of life, and the word of blessing is even more solemn. I once wrote an article, "Blessing Words on the Gate Should Not Be Pasted Upside Down," about Chinese attitude towards life. There is also a small story, when I was a child, I saw an elderly man writing a blessing, he wrote it and looked at it, shook his head and was not satisfied, but he did not write like a normal word - if it was bad, he ripped off the paper, but pressed it under a stack of paper. He said that the word Fu could not be torn off. This respect for life and piety, devotion to culture, has always been remembered in my heart. This is how beautiful the emotions of life, how beautiful folklore, how beautiful cultural ways and ways of the heart. Didn't the Chinese nation rely on this persistent spirit and pursuit of life to live endlessly on the land of the East for five thousand years?
Don't underestimate the simple single ink written on this small red paper, it actually contains all and the ultimate emotions and pursuits of our national life. It deserves to be called a deep Spring Festival symbol for us. Therefore, every Spring Festival comes, whether it is a mountain village in northern Shaanxi or a water town in jiangnan, whether it is a sound, light, electricity, or a border city with sparse people, large and small dazzling blessing characters can be seen everywhere; once a year, it is always accompanied by a variety of snowflakes, brightly coming to the human world, coming to our lives and the hope of life.
Cute tiger sniffing spring
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Source: Feng Jicai Studio
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Editor-in-Chief: Lu Binzhi Responsible Editor: Liu Aige Coordinator: Liu Li Creative: Yuan Ding Reviewer: Liang Liang Photography: Jing Xin Camera: Wei Dong Technology: Gong Jian
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