What is the origin and legend of the word upside down?

In ancient China, there has always been a custom of "writing big characters on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month". On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi sent a decree and asked the Hanlin people of the Hanlin Academy to write some couplets to celebrate the Spring Festival. These Hanlin people did their best, used all the beautiful rhetoric, and sent the queen mother to see it after writing.

The Queen Mother was very unhappy when she saw that there was not even a word "Fu" in it. Seeing that Lafayette was angry, the Hanlin people were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and said, "Please teach Lafayette."

The Queen Mother said: "Go and write a few words 'Fu'." The Hanlin people hurriedly went back and wrote a bunch of "Fu" words and sent them, and the Queen Mother picked a few of them and asked the chief administrator Li Lianying to take the eunuchs to post them everywhere in the palace.

Who knew that it caused a storm again. There was a eunuch who was illiterate and pasted the word "Fu" upside down, and no one found it that night. The next day, the Queen Mother came out to admire the couplet and the word "Fu", and happened to see that Li Lianying, who was about to get angry and her brain was turning fast, hurriedly stepped forward and said:

Lafayette, please calm his anger, this is the minion deliberately pasted it upside down. The word 'Fu' is upside down, that is, 'Fu' is upside down. Isn't it good luck when the blessing arrives?

When Cixi heard this, she turned her anger into joy, and not only did not punish the eunuch, but also rewarded him with a few taels of silver. Later, this custom spread to the people and became a custom.

The origin and meaning of the word Fu upside down: In order to commemorate Queen Ma, the word "Fu" is pasted upside down, indicating that "the blessing has arrived".

There is also a legend in Chinese folk that the word "Fu" is pasted upside down. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang used the word "Fu" as a secret mark to prepare to kill. In order to eliminate this disaster, the kind-hearted Queen Ma ordered the people of the city to put the word "Fu" on their doors before dawn.

Naturally, no one dared to disobey Queen Ma's will, so the word "Fu" was posted on the door of every house.

Among them, one family was illiterate, and even pasted the word "Fu" upside down. The next day, the emperor sent people to check on the street and found that the word "Fu" was pasted on every house, and the word "Fu" was pasted upside down in another family. When the emperor heard the report, he was furious, and the Brotherhood faction immediately ordered the Imperial Guards to behead the family.

Queen Ma saw that things were not good, and hurriedly said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "That family knows that you are visiting today, and deliberately pasted the word Fu upside down, doesn't this mean "Fu Dao"?" As soon as the emperor heard that it made sense, he ordered the release of the people, and a catastrophe was finally eliminated.

Since then, people have pasted the word "Fu" upside down, one to seek good luck, and the other to commemorate Queen Ma. This is where the blessing comes from.

Fu character style:

As early as more than 3,000 years ago, on the bronze inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there were different structures of the word "Fu". Later, with the emergence of fonts such as ancient Zhou, small seal, open dry book, cursive script, regular script, line script, etc., the calligraphy of the word "Fu" is more and more, more and more artistic, and the descendants of the collection of books "Baixian Early Congratulations Futu" and "Qianfu Tu" are concentrated on the various writing methods of the word "Fu", which is pleasing to the eye.

There are two forms of "Baifu Tu": one is a special-shaped pattern based on the seal, that is, the circular pattern of the word "Fu" that has been circulated among the people for a long time, and its font shape is stable, even, dignified, and very interesting and charming; One is a rectangular pattern composed of 100 different ways of writing true, grass, subordinate and seal. The character "Fu" is not only an item for people to pray for peace and auspiciousness, but also reflects the breadth and profundity of Chinese calligraphy and its various changes.

The inverted posting of the word Fu originated in the Ming Dynasty.

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang used the word "Fu" as a secret mark to prepare to kill. In order to eliminate this disaster, Queen Ma ordered the people of the city to put a blessing on their doors before dawn. No one dared to disobey Queen Ma's will, so the word blessing was posted on the door of every house.

Among them, one family was illiterate and pasted the word Fu upside down. The next day, the emperor sent people to check on the street and found that every house had pasted the word Fu, and some had pasted the word Fu upside down.

The Emperor was furious when he heard the report, and immediately ordered the Imperial Guards to behead the family. Queen Ma saw that things were not good, and hurriedly said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "That family knows that you are visiting today, and deliberately pasted the word Fu upside down, doesn't this mean "Fu Dao"?"

As soon as the emperor heard that it made sense, he ordered the release of the people, and a catastrophe was finally eliminated. Since then, people have put the word "Fu" upside down to stop Sun Lai, one is to seek good luck, and the other is to commemorate Queen Ma.

The origin of the upside-down post of the word Fu is said to be related to Zhu Yuanzhang's queen:

During the Chinese New Year one year, Zhu Yuanzhang went to the streets of Beijing for a private visit. He went to a market in the south of the city, and saw many people watching and discussing a New Year's painting of a barefoot woman holding a large watermelon in her arms. This was supposed to be an ordinary New Year's painting that reflected the joy of farmers after the harvest year, but Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the meaning behind the New Year's painting was "Huai (embracing Sun You) West (watermelon) woman has good feet", which is to laugh at the big feet of Huaixi women, and then to laugh at Queen Ma's "big feet", because Queen Ma is from Huaixi.

So he sent someone to find out who made the New Year's paintings, who were watching, and wrote down the address and name. For the people who did not participate and laugh, the word "Fu" was posted on their doors. Then he ordered the sergeant to go to the house of the person who did not have the word "Fu" posted to suppress him.

When Queen Ma heard about this, in order to prevent the people from being killed for no reason, she ordered all the people in the city to paste the word "Fu" on their doors before dawn. So the word "Fu" was pasted on the door of every house, and one of them was illiterate, so the word "Fu" was pasted upside down. The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to check on the street and found that the word "Fu" was pasted on every house, and the word "Fu" was pasted upside down in another family.

The emperor was furious and immediately ordered the house to be beheaded. Empress Ma was in a hurry and said to the emperor: "That family knows that you are visiting today, and deliberately pasted the word Fu upside down, doesn't this mean 'Fu to'?"

As soon as the emperor heard that it was reasonable, he ordered the late sale of the people, avoiding a catastrophe. Since then, every Chinese New Year's Eve, the common people will paste the word "Fu" on their doors to show "peace and security" to keep peace. This kind of kind wish from "avoiding suspicion" to "blessing" has been passed down to this day, and sometimes people simply paste the word "Fu" upside down in order to more fully reflect the beautiful yearning and wishes, seeking auspiciousness, indicating that "happiness has arrived" or "blessing has arrived"; The second is to commemorate Queen Ma.

Usually, during the New Year, the word "Fu" is pasted upside down on the door, which is a long-standing custom of our people. The homonym of "Fu has fallen" is "Fu has arrived", in order to be auspicious.

The custom of pasting the word "Fu" upside down is said to have originated in the palace of Prince Gong in the Qing Dynasty. On the eve of the Spring Festival in a certain year, the housekeeper wrote a few words of "Fu" as usual and pasted them on the treasury and the gate of the palace. A house slave actually pasted the word "Fu" down, and Prince Gong Fujin was very angry about it.

The chief housekeeper hurriedly knelt down and stated: "Prince Gong's longevity and high fortune are great and now the great fortune has really come (fallen), which is an auspicious omen." When Prince Gong Fujin heard this, he thought: "No wonder passers-by say that Prince Gong is blessed (down)." So he rewarded the housekeeper and the house slave with money.

Later, the custom of pasting the word "Fu" upside down was introduced to the strangers in the alley from the official mansion, and after pasting it, they were willing to pass by passers-by or naughty children to read a few words: "Blessing has arrived!" Blessings have arrived! ”

The origin of the story of the upside-down Fu character is as follows:

Legend has it that this tradition originated in the palace of Prince Gong in the Qing Dynasty. On the eve of the Spring Festival of a certain year, the chief housekeeper of the palace wrote a few big "Fu" words in accordance with the customs of previous years, and ordered people to paste them on the gate of the palace. As a result, there was a family member in the palace who couldn't read and couldn't ask others, so he put the word "Fu" downwards in a daze.

When Prince Gong's Fu Jin saw this, he was very angry and ordered someone to arrest this family member and whip him. Seeing this, the housekeeper hurriedly came out to defend the housekeeper and said: "Slaves often hear people say that Prince Gong has a long life and great blessings, and today when I see that this great blessing has arrived, it is a sign of joy."

Prince Gong and Fu Jin laughed when they heard this, and thought to themselves: "When I returned home today, I always heard the whispers of pedestrians at the door: Prince Gong's blessing has fallen, and the auspicious language has been said a thousand times, and the gold and silver have increased by 10,000 yuan."

Although this minion is a little clever and thinks of this trick, he is also a little learned. "After thinking about it, Prince Gong released the housekeeper and rewarded the housekeeper and the housekeeper with fifty taels of silver each.

The origin of the custom of sticking the word blessing on the door during the Spring Festival

Legend has it that it was caused by Jiang Taigong's canonization of gods. In that year, after the king of Wu and the Shang of the Zhou Dynasty, Jiang Taigong presided over the ceremony of sealing the gods, and the civil and military generals who died in the battle were named immortals and became officials in the heavenly court. When all the immortals were properly assigned by Jiang Cracked Good Ziya, Jiang Shang's ugly and vulgar wife also licked her face and reached out to ask for the god position.

It is said that an ordinary old woman is not qualified to be a god, but she argued that it was because she drove Jiang Zi out of the house when Zheng Yuan was more than a year, that he would be fishing in the Weishui River in the future, so she also affected the general trend of the world. Anyway, it's all kinds of unreasonable entanglements, entanglement and nonsense, Jiang Taigong is really tired of having no choice, so he will make her a "poor god".

But set the rule, wherever the word "Fu" is pasted, the "poor god" cannot go. Since then, every New Year, in order to avoid the "poor god", every household has pasted the word "Fu" on the door.