Architectural blessing.

In addition to the word "fu" written on paper and cut between papers, some architectural words "fu" are often artistically treated by people who yearn for happiness. In the old days, when some wealthy families in the north carved a large blessing on the screen wall, they changed their radicals to dog heads and named them "dog head symbols" to take the homonym of dog hook, which means to hook the blessing to their homes. Private houses in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, especially in rural areas, used to be particularly fond of writing the word "Fu" on the corners of gables on both sides, with white walls and black tiles, which were particularly eye-catching from a distance. Others painted the whole gable black with bituminous coal mixed glue, leaving the white word "Fu" more prominent. This out-and-out Han folk custom is full of strong local flavor. The word "fu" written on the wall is often vivid and interesting. Some draw two bats in the left and right corners of the word "Fu", which means "Blessed everywhere"; Some pattern the word "Fu" and combine it with auspicious patterns such as deer head, longevity head or peach, which is very interesting and artistic, and contains people's pursuit and yearning for Fu Lushou. On the ancient wall of a Azhong resident in Bailu Village, Bailu Township, Ganxian County, Jiangxi Province, there is a pattern of "Fu" left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The figure is a regular rectangle with a length of about 100 cm and a width of about 75 cm. Carved in the center of the front wall of the main hall. The whole picture is vigorous and smooth, showing a neatly written and flexible word "Fu". On the top left of the word is painted "Zhuan Lu", and there is a bat spreading its wings below.

According to the transliteration of Hakka dialect, this "deer" is Luye; Bats are a blessing to the people. It means "Fu Lu is connected, and wealth is long"; On the upper right of the word is a crane's head and neck and a flying auspicious cloud, followed by the word "Tian". The flying crane symbolizes longevity, while the word "Tian" represents multi-layered meanings such as farmland, land and farming, and its unchanging glyph shows people's yearning and dependence on land ownership. Looking at the overall situation, it is not difficult to remind people of the world's desire for a happy life of "happiness starts from the edge of the field, life starts from the ground, and you don't forget to plow when you have a noble salary." There are also people in the Han nationality who elaborate the blessing characters into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp yue longmen, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, and so on. In the past, there was a saying among the Han people that twenty-four families wrote big characters in the twelfth lunar month. In the past, the word Fu was mostly handwritten and sold in markets and shops because it was a symbol of good luck.