Dear friends, the Spring Festival, the most important festival among traditional Chinese festivals, is coming soon. Thank you for being so supportive of BLANC TEA TOWEL this year. I wish you a happy Spring Festival in advance.
The Spring Festival in China has a long history, which evolved from the sacrifice of the first year in ancient times. After that, the earth is rejuvenated, the end comes, again and again, everything is renewed, and a new cycle of reincarnation begins. People set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but generally, it will not end until at least the fifteenth day. The Spring Festival is a folk festival that integrates worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding evil spirits, reuniting relatives and friends, celebrating entertainment and eating.
Among them, sticking Spring Festival couplets, sticking blessing characters, making dumplings and hanging lanterns are the most common cultural symbols of the Spring Festival. Through the Spring Festival, we will directly introduce the Chinese culture of “福.”
“福” is one of the oldest characters with about three thousand years of history. The character of blessing in the oracle bone inscriptions is the shape of the wine utensils in front of the gods because the ancients used wine to symbolize prosperity. Every Chinese New Year, every household will paste the word “Fu” big and trim on the house’s door, wall, and lintel. It is a long-standing folk custom to paste “Fu” during the Spring Festival. The current interpretation of the word “福” is “happiness,” but in the past it referred to “blessing” and “good luck.” The Chinese New Year’s sticking of the word “福,” both now and in the past, pinned people’s yearning for a happy life, and it is also good Wishes for a better future.
The following blessing characters are handwritten blessing characters of some Chinese emperors in the Qing Dynasty. Let’s enjoy them together. You can tell us which blessing characters you prefer. May we send our blessings to you through the word “福.”
