The Symbolic Meaning of Chinese Characters...

I visited a home in my neighbourhood. On the walls of the living hall were the Chinese characters, "FU" which means blessings, written in several different forms on different media.

One of them was written using a Chinese Calligraphy brush. It was the work of the younger daughter in the family. It was written quite neatly artistic. The right and left portions that make up the character were quite distinctive. Chinese characters are usually symbolically meaningful. Take the character "FU" for example:

The left portion signifies "GOD" while the right, reading it top-down, is "One mouth in the field" which means a man ploughing the field. Putting them together means "A man ploughing the field with God's presence" is "FU" = Blessings.

Many Chinese do believe that blessings come from above. So, in this family, there was another character "FU" that was hanged inverted to imply that blessings are being showered from above.

May I take this opportunity to wish all who celebrate Chinese New Year, a fruitful year filled with lots of BLESSINGS from above.