Why should we wish for the New Year?

Sticking blessings is a traditional custom of the Han nationality.

During the Spring Festival, every household should put the word "Fu" on doors, walls and lintels. Sticking the word "Fu" in the Spring Festival is a long-standing custom of the Han people. The word "fu" is now interpreted as happiness, but in the past it meant good luck and good luck. No matter now or in the past, people's longing for a happy life and their wishes for a better future are pinned on the New Year. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, the Han people simply turn the word "fu" upside down, indicating that happiness has arrived and blessings have arrived.

The word "Fu" is posted in front of the door, and there is a written record in Wu's Dream in the Song Dynasty: "Literati size, sweep their doors, dust and dirt, clean their homes, change their door gods, hang Zhong Kui, nail peach symbols, paste spring cards, and sacrifice their ancestors." "Sticking a Spring Card" means writing the word "Fu" on red paper and sticking it in front of the gate. It can be seen that the custom of pasting blessings has a long history at least since the Southern Song Dynasty.