What are the meanings and symbols of the Five Fortunes?

Morals: "Five Fortunes" refers to "longevity", "wealth", "concern", "good virtue" and "good end". "",""Good Virtue",""Good End". So Five Fortunes at the Gate means having longevity, wealth, health, good fortune and blessings, and it means all the good lucks converge in it.

Symbolism: Five Fortunes is a kind of New Year's painting, the pattern is a child with a chrysanthemum on his head, symbolizing happiness and good luck shining high. Five Fortunes in modern times, in addition to the continuation of the traditional folk said that the beautiful symbolism, at the same time the five Fortunes also expresses people's desire for peace, health, happiness and happy life.

After all, life is not perfect, there will always be some aspects are not perfect, so people will be through the five blessings pendant or five blessings jewelry, and so on, and then send the good wishes. Therefore, in modern times, five blessings is not only a collective term for five blessings, but also signifies people's desire and pursuit of a better and happier life.

Pasted upside down

"Five blessings" together can constitute a happy life, a separate can not be wonderful. Inverted posting of the word "Fu", to take its "reverse" and "to" the harmonic, meaning "Fu to". In folklore tradition, the word "福" is posted upside down mainly on water tanks and garbage cans. These two places to pour things out of the inside, in order to avoid the home of the blessing of the pouring out, will be clever use of "pour" the harmonic word "to".

The cabinet in the house is also upside down. Cabinet is a place to store things, upside down "Fu" character, that blessing, wealth has been to the home, the house and the cabinet. However, these are popular folklore, the essence of posting the word of fortune or figure a lucky, positive posting inverted posting to see which one we believe.