Various methods of writing fu in the picture

The writing methods of the blessing characters are: Kangxi style, Yongzheng style, Qianlong style, Daoguang style and Jiaqing style.

The meaning of the word "Fu" in China's traditional culture, in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, is a knowing word to pour wine on the altar with both hands, which means to pray for the gods to bring everything smoothly. There is a saying in the Book of Rites: "Those who are blessed are also called shun." Now it means happiness and blessing.

Happiness is the first of the six blessings, that is, "happiness, wealth, longevity, happiness, wealth and luck", and "seeking, accepting, cherishing and blessing" is also a generalization and representative of various cultural phenomena. Fu is divided into Five Blessingg and Shang Shu Hong Fan: "Five Blessingg: one is longevity, the other is wealth, the third is corning, the fourth is virtue, and the fifth is the end of the senior high school entrance examination."

"Blessing" is the first of the six blessings, namely "blessing, wealth, longevity, happiness, wealth and luck", and "seeking, accepting, cherishing and blessing" is also a generalization and representative of various cultural phenomena. Fu is divided into Five Blessingg and Shang Shu Hong Fan: "Five Blessingg: one is longevity, the other is wealth, the third is corning, the fourth is virtue, and the fifth is the end of the senior high school entrance examination." The form and content of happiness are concretized. The meaning of happiness in China culture is not material satisfaction, but mainly spiritual satisfaction and the pursuit of a better life.

Etymological evolution

Fu, first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, is a combination of knowing characters and pictophonetic characters. According to Oracle Bone Inscriptions unearthed from Yin Ruins in Henan Province, "Fu" is the image of holding a jar in both hands to worship God (show), and it is a knowing word composed of three words: hand, wine and show. The whole word means "holding a bottle of wine in both hands, offering it to the ancestors' gods and asking them to bless you."

When explaining the meaning of the word "Fu", Shuo Wen Jie Zi said "You Ye", which means blessing and blessing. With the development of Chinese characters, the Fuzi configuration of Xiaozhuan is the basic character, and "Fu" is also used as the phonetic side of pictophonetic characters such as "Fu, Fu, Amplitude, Fu ……", which has been used ever since.