The reason and meaning of the upside-down "Fu" character

Pasting the word "Fu" is a traditional Chinese New Year custom. During the Spring Festival, every household will paste the word "Fu" of different sizes on their doors, walls, and lintels. So, what is the reason and meaning of pasting the word "Fu" upside down?

The meaning of the word "Fu" (blessing)

In order to more fully reflect people's wishes, yearning and wishes for future life, people paste the word "Fu" upside down to represent "happiness has arrived" and "good fortune has arrived". The word "Fu" is pasted upside down because "到" (dao) and "倒" (dao) are homophones, which means good fortune has arrived.

Where can you paste the word "Fu" upside down?

In folk tradition, the word "Fu" is mainly pasted upside down on water tanks and trash cans. The things in these two places need to be poured out. In order to avoid pouring out the good fortune in the house, people use the homonym of “dao” (down) to paste the word “Fu” upside down. In addition, the cabinet is a place to store items, and pasting the word "Fu" upside down means that blessing and wealth will always come to the home, the house and the cabinet.

The importance of inverted blessing

1. Inside the house - stick upside down blessing

It can also be pasted on windows, pillars, cabinets, boxes, water tanks in places such as kitchens, storehouses, toilets, barns, mills and places where sundries are stored. It means that even if the "blessing" is knocked down at home, it will still be in your own home; the blessing will also be locked in your own house. The house is full of blessings. In addition, it implies that if you don’t have small blessings, you won’t have big blessings.

2. For those who need to change their luck - paste the inverted blessing

If someone in your family dies or other disasters occur during the year, you can paste the upside-down blessing sticker.