Where is the best place to put the word "Fu" upside down?

There are many traditional customs during the Chinese New Year, and pasting Spring Festival couplets with the word "Fu" is indispensable. The word "Fu" symbolizes good luck and fortune. Pasting the word "Fu" at home during the Chinese New Year is a good omen. Moreover, there is another detail when pasting the word "Fu", which is that it should be pasted upside down. So, where should the word "Fu" be pasted upside down?

Where is the word "Fu" pasted upside down?

1. It is suitable to stick the word "Fu" upside down on the wall inside the house: inside the house, even if the word "Fu" is upside down, the good fortune will remain inside the house and will not flow out. Instead, he was locked up in the house, so the word "Fu" could be pasted upside down on the wall inside the house.

2. The word "Fu" on the toilet should be pasted upside down: the toilet is where people usually relieve themselves, flush, and throw away dirty things. The toilet symbolizes "throwing away" dirty things and bad luck.

3. The word "Fu" on the wall of the toilet should be pasted upside down: Toilets have been dirty places in the home since ancient times, and the ancients believed that toilets were places with heavy yin energy. There are also toilets and other things inside. Therefore, the word "Fu" should be pasted upside down. Things with bad meanings should be thrown away.

4. The word "Fu" on the trash can should be pasted upside down: the trash in the trash can will be thrown away by people. To avoid throwing away the good fortune, when the trash can is turned upside down, the upside-down blessing character will be right side up.

5. The word "Fu" on the water tank should be pasted upside down: because the water in the water tank needs to be poured out by people for use. In order to avoid throwing away good fortune, we use the homonyms of “倒” (dao) and “到” (dao), which means “good fortune has arrived”. It means good fortune is coming.

6. The word "Fu" on the wardrobe should be pasted upside down: the cabinet is a place to store things, with doors that can be closed, and the words "Fu Dao Le" will be tightly closed.

Not all blessing characters need to be pasted upside down.

Especially on the door. The word "Fu" on the door must always be pasted upright. The word "Fu" on the gate means "welcoming blessings" and "accepting blessings". And the front door is the entrance and exit of the home. A solemn and respectful place. The word "Fu" that is pasted. It must be solemn, dignified and generous, so it should be posted upright. The famous writer Feng Jicai said: Like nowadays. Turn the word "Fu" on the door upside down. Then the top will be heavy. Disrespectful and improper. It's not funny. It goes against the spirit of Chinese "door culture" and "New Year culture".

Where is the best place to put the word "Fu" at home?

The word "Fu" should be hung in the entrance hall, on the wall opposite the front door, on the east wall of the living room, on the west wall of the living room, in the bedroom, and in the study. Especially for homes with elderly people and children, it is necessary to hang a word "Fu" at home to pray for blessings and wishes for the family. Especially the "Fu" character written by famous calligraphers can help you to be filled with blessings and bring good fortune to your generations! The character "Fu" can be divided into upright "Fu", inverted "Fu" and various small "Fu" characters. You must remember where to stick the character according to its size. The "Inverted Fortune" square should be pasted in front of the entrance hall facing north and south, which is called "Fortune entering the hall." The main blessing is also a square shape, and a family can only have one. It must face east and west, symbolizing "blessings as vast as the East Sea"; the door blessing must be the main blessing, and there are also the head-raising blessing, the prosperous blessing, etc., which must be classified according to their respective categories. The etiquette of pasting the word "Fu" is the experience summed up by our ancestors over thousands of years. The position of pasting it is arranged according to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, and it is not just someone's random choice.

It is better to hang a few blessing characters at home.

There is no limit. The actual time to paste the word "Fu" should be in the afternoon of New Year's Eve, before the sun sets. Moreover, the order of pasting the word "Fu" should be from the outside to the inside, first paste the "Fu" on the head, then "Fu" on the door, and so on, and only the last one can be pasted with the "Fu" upside down, which means all the blessings for the year will flow in from the outside. But a family can only paste one upside-down "Fu" character. The square "Fu" should be pasted facing north and south in front of the entrance hall. This is called "Fu entering the hall". But a family can only paste one character. If they paste too many, it is considered unlucky and is regarded as "repeating the same mistakes".