Articles on China's Traditional Fu Culture

Before the Spring Festival every year, Alipay will launch a gathering activity. This year's activities arrived as scheduled, and relatives, friends, colleagues and classmates around us joined the army of sweeping away blessings and collecting blessings. Gathering blessings is very popular. It seems that people regard it as a special custom on the eve of the Spring Festival. People who pick up their mobile phones to sweep blessings can be seen everywhere, and I believe you are no exception. So, how much do you know about the "Fu" culture?

Fu, knowledge and pictophonetic characters. It was first born in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Judging from Oracle Bone Inscriptions (Figure A), "Fu" is the image of holding an altar with both hands to worship God (show), and it is a knowing word composed of three parts: hand, wine and show. The original intention is to sacrifice wine to God and pray for all the best. With the passage of time, the change of dynasties and the change of culture, the word "Fu" has finally evolved into the last two fonts in the picture-Han Li and italics, with "Yes" on the left and "One", "Mouth" and "Heaven" on the right. Wang, a researcher in Beijing folklore, believes that according to Shuo Wen Jie Zi, "one" stands for beams, "mouth" stands for population, and "field" stands for ploughing, which means "a field with a mouthful of clothes and shoes is rich", which can be extended to career and study. People are prosperous and live and work in peace. This is "happiness".

Patriotic blessing, cursive script (cursive script), the words of Wang Xizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, selected from the Half Monument of Guangfu Temple.

Rich and powerful, official script. In Qing Dynasty, Deng's words were selected from Ming Dynasty, which was Deng's official script. This article was directly extracted by Shen Meng from Zhang Zixi Ming.

Harmony, regular script. Liu Ti is selected from the Xuanta Monument written by Liu Gongquan in Tang Dynasty.

Friendly greetings, cursive script. From the font, we can feel Wang Xizhi's style, which is also a bit like Li Yong's words in the Tang Dynasty. In short, it is undoubtedly Wang Xizhi's writing system.

Dedication and happiness belong to the vocabulary of modern innovative art.

There is also a new word "Fu" written by Ma Yun this year. There are pigs, fields, the Internet and Alipay, all of which belong to the new image of "Fu" given by the Internet age.

When explaining the meaning of the word "Fu", Shuo Wen Jie Zi said "You Ye", which means blessing and blessing. Fuxing, Lu Xing and Shouxing, who represent Geely and longevity, are called "three lucky stars". Han Feizi, a philosopher in the Warring States period, thought that "a long life is a blessing". It is often said in ancient books that people's "Five Blessingg" is: 1. Longevity; 2. Abundance; 3. Improvement of moral character; 5. Completion of exams. People often say that the Complete Works of Five Blessingg refers to these contents.

With the changes of the times, "happiness" has derived new meanings on the basis of people's prosperity and living and working in peace. It is patriotic, prosperous, harmonious, friendly and dedicated, and has become a new Five Blessingg: the country is prosperous, the people are harmonious, they love their jobs and are dedicated, and people and society develop harmoniously. The new era and new meaning better express the meaning of "happiness" in China culture, which is not material satisfaction, but mainly spiritual satisfaction and the pursuit of a better life.

? The first blessing in the world

In the 12th year of Kangxi (AD 1673), sourdrang dowager's 60th birthday was approaching, but he was involved in it. In desperation, Kangxi decided to try "please be blessed" and become "blessed" in one go. Sourdrang dowager recovered from all diseases at the age of 75. Later, Kangxi mentioned the imperial pen several times, but he could never write its charm, so it was widely rumored that this blessing was a "godsend." The word "Fu", known as "the best blessing in the world", means five glyphs of "Zi, Tian, Cai, Shou and Fu", meaning "Many children, many fields, many talents, long life and many blessings". From the point of view of calligraphy, it is rare for several words to be combined into one, but it is smooth and natural. What's more, it is the only "one Five Blessingg" in the world.

? The first happiness in the world

On the National Day of 2008, Fu Shou calligrapher Lu created the words "the first happiness in the world-the prosperity of China" protected by independent intellectual property rights. The word "Fu" of "Wealth and Peace" draws lessons from the calligraphy of "Ping" of Emperor Taizong and "An" of Wang Xizhi, and keeps the original shape of the traditional word "Fu", which conforms to the norms of calligraphy and Chinese characters. The writing contains four words "Ping, An, Harmony and Happiness", which means "Peace, Harmony and Happiness". She embodied the Millennium prayer that "peace is a blessing" in a word of "blessing", which has auspicious signs of "God-given peace and happiness on earth". At the same time, it explains the common aspirations of people and society today-peace, harmony and happiness. Because "peace" is the first happiness of mankind, it is also called "the first happiness on earth". It set a world record of "the first word of peace and happiness in the world" and was collected by Daqing Museum.

? After reading so many unique "fu" characters, while collecting them, we might as well try to write a traditional or innovative "fu" character with a brush and stick it at home, which means happiness! Here, I also wish you all a happy life and all the best in the new year! Happy New Year ~

? (PS。 There are many interesting blessings. You can find it online yourself, and you are welcome to leave a message for discussion-)