The Spring Festival is approaching, are you already so happy that you don't have the heart to work? Although there are still some people who have to choose to celebrate the New Year on the spot because of the epidemic, the atmosphere of prosperity still has to be stirred up. For example, the Sweeping Five Blessings collection and five blessings activity that has become a New Year custom must be actively participated, we don't care how much red envelopes are finally distributed, anyway, the blessings are to be collected. Today I will show you the handwritten Fu characters of several emperors of the Qing Dynasty with their own noble spirit, and sweep to the dedication of the fu is not a problem.
The origin of the blessing
"Fu" is the first of the six auspicious "Blessings, Lu, Shou, Joy, Wealth and Luck", and the Fu culture has been a spiritual cultural support for people's prayers and wishes since ancient times. As early as more than 3,000 years ago, in the oracle bones, the word Fu already appeared. However, at that time, there were many fu character shapes, and they were not exactly the same, some depicted "holding wine with their hands to sacrifice to the heavens", and some were "offering wine to the altar", of course, the most fundamental meaning was to sacrifice with wine and pray for well-being.
The five blessings we now use our mobile phones to scan are patriotic blessings, rich and strong blessings, harmonious blessings, friendly blessings, and dedicated blessings, do you know what the real "five blessings" refer to? The Book of Shang records: "The five blessings, one is shou, the second is rich, the third is Kangning, the fourth is good and virtuous, and the fifth is the end of life." "The blessing began to have a spiritual and material meaning.
The first blessing in the world
People who come to Beijing to play say that they should "go to the Forbidden City to get the royal spirit, go to the Great Wall to get the domineering spirit, and go to the GongWangFu to get the blessings." This blessing of the Gong Dynasty refers to the Kangxi Imperial Pen inscription and the fu character stele stamped with the seal of "Treasure of the Kangxi Imperial Pen". The Kangxi Emperor loved calligraphy, but there were not many inscriptions, and his imperial handwriting was relatively rare among the emperors, so there was also a saying that "a word of Kangxi is worth a thousand gold".
This fu character can be counted as the most famous of the emperor's handwritten fu characters, and there are many of them. It is said that in 1673, the Kangxi Emperor's grandmother, Empress Xiaozhuang, was approaching her 60th birthday, which was originally a very festive event, but Xiaozhuang suddenly fell seriously ill, and the imperial doctors were helpless. In desperation, Kangxi decided to "ask for blessings" to get rid of his grandmother's illness, so he wrote this blessing word in one go. The illness of Empress Xiaozhuang was also miraculously cured, and then she ordered someone to carve the fu character on the stone tablet for permanent preservation.
The Fu zi monument of Prince Gong's mansion
In addition to the aura of legends and stories, this blessing word itself is also very wonderful. First of all, the glyph is slender and long, not as square as the Fu character we usually write, so it is also called "long thin (shou) Fu". In addition, the upper right part of the Fu character resembles a "many" character, the lower right part is an unsealed "Tian" character, and the entire right half looks like a "Shou" character; the left half looks like both "Cai" and "Zi", so it also means "many children, many talents, many fields, many lives, and many blessings". Therefore, this fu character, which contains beautiful meanings such as "the unity of fu shou" and "the boundless blessing (the unsealed character of the field)", is also called "the first blessing under the heavens".
It is said that there are 9,999 bats on the garden building of Prince Gong's Mansion, and together with the Fu Zi Monument, there are exactly 10,000 Fu Characters, so it is also called "Wanfu Garden".
The Emperor's Blessing Word
Like the folk, during the Spring Festival, the Qing Palace should also paste the Spring League Fu character. At the beginning of the first lunar month, the emperors would use the "Blessing Cangsheng" pen to write the first fu character on the dragon note and paste it in the Qianqing Palace, and then write more than ten pictures to paste in other palaces, and at the same time, they would also give some fu characters to the ministers.
The Kangxi Emperor was a Ming Emperor who ruled during his reign, ruled martial arts, recovered Taiwan, expelled Tsarist Russia, and created the prosperous era of Kangqian. He was also the only emperor who understood the natural sciences of astronomy, mathematics, geography and so on. The Kangxi Emperor liked calligraphy, from Wang Xizhi to Yan Zhenqing, from Su Shi to Mi Fu, he had learned to copy, especially loved Dong Qichang's calligraphy, and also formed handwriting with the essence of Dong Shu.
The Kangxi Emperor's imperial pen Fuzi
The Yongzheng Emperor reigned for 13 years and took a series of measures to carry out reforms. He also set up a secret system of establishment and storage, that is, the name of the selected prince was placed in a box and placed behind the "Zhengda Guangming" plaque in the Qianqing Palace to prevent the recurrence of the Kangxi Dynasty's "Nine Sons and Nine Sons". The Yongzheng Emperor ruled the country well and laid the foundation for the prosperity of the Qianlong Dynasty.
Yongzheng Emperor Yubi Fuzi
The Qianlong Emperor is probably the most praiseworthy is the "farmhouse" aesthetic and poetry writing master name. The Qianlong Emperor composed more than 42,000 poems in his lifetime, the number of which is comparable to the Quan Tang Poems, and also ordered the compilation of books such as Shiqu Baodi, Xiqing Ancient Classics, and Siku Quanshu. Literature and art can cultivate sentiments and cultivate self-cultivation, so the Qianlong Emperor is not only the longest-lived emperor in China's past, but also the emperor who has actually ruled for the longest time.
The Qianlong Emperor's imperial pen Fuzi
After the prosperity of Kangqian, the Qing Dynasty began to gradually decline. However, the Jiaqing Emperor was still a diligent monarch who loved the people, and the most well-known major event was to raid the homes of corrupt officials and yan.
Jiaqing Emperor Yubi Fuzi
The Daoguang Emperor can be said to be the most frugal emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and his pants are torn and reluctant to change them, and he continues to wear them with patches. Other eating and wearing degrees, but also save money. The emperor was thrifty, and the courtiers naturally rushed to follow suit, wearing worn-out clothes to the court, which later led to the old clothes in the capital selling more expensive than the new clothes.
Daoguang Emperor Yubi Fuzi
After reading the blessing words of the above emperors, who do you think is the most eye-catching? The blessing characters written by the emperor are different from those of our ordinary people's families, first of all, the pen of the writing should be engraved with "blessing the life of the heavens", and the red paper on which the writing is written must also have the dragon pattern depicted by the painters one by one. As for the written blessing characters, they should not be casually pasted on the wall and doors, but should be mounted on the board and then hung where they are needed.
The Fu zi and spring league in the apse of the Shoukang Palace of the Forbidden City
In the Qianlong Dynasty, there was a minister named Wang Jihua, the official to hubu Shangshu, during his thirty-one years in office, he collected a total of 24 blessing characters given by the emperor, placed them in his home, and named them twenty-four Futang. It is also very similar to the five blessings we have now. Chinese believe that words are powerful, the emperor's imperial pen blessing word is rewarded, the common people post the blessing word at home, and we sweep the blessing and collect blessings, all of which are a beautiful spiritual prayer.
The above blessing words are not enough? Then there are these calligraphy handwritten blessing characters, hurry up and sweep the dedication to the blessing!
Cao Quan Monument
Huai Ren Ji Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Three Sacred Teachings"
Liu Gongquan 'Mystery Tower Stele》
Chu Suiliang《Yanta Sacred Order》
Yan Zhenqing's "Many Pagoda Tablets"
Ouyang Inquiry "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming"
Ouyang Inquiry "Thousand Character Text"
Song Huizong Zhao Tuo's "Thousand Character Text"
Zhao Mengfu's Tombstone of Qiu'e
Zhao Mengfu", "A Thousand Words"
Huang Tingjian's "Huang Wenjie Sanskrit Zhi Poem"
Ouyang Xiu's "Three Xi Tang Fa Ti"
Zeng Gong 《Bureau Post》
Wang Duo's "Pro-Ji Zi Sacred Order"
Zheng Banqiao
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