Plants and flowers are extremely popular in Hong Kong and Macau as Chinese New Year Decorations. The most popular blooming plants traditionally used during this period are: branches of plum blossoms, orchids, peonies, and peach blossoms. It is not uncommon to decorate houses with blooming flowers, which symbolize the coming of spring and wishes for a prosperous new year. Blooming Flowers - Wishes for a Prosperous New YearĬhinese New Year, also called Spring Festival, marks the beginning of spring. Kumquat trees are a very popular plant displayed during the Chinese New Year holidays, especially in South China's Cantonese-speaking regions of Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong, and Guangxi. Therefore, having a kumquat tree at home symbolizes a wish for both wealth and good luck. The word ju not only sounds like the Chinese word for 'good luck' (吉 jí /jee/), but also contains the Chinese character if written 桔. Likewise in Mandarin, the kumquat is called jinju shu (金桔树 jīnjú shù /jin-jyoo shoo/), and the word jin (金) is the Chinese word for gold. The word gam (金) is the Cantonese word for 'gold', and the word gat sounds like the Cantonese word for 'good luck'. In Cantonese, the kumquat is called gam gat sue. People liked the alternative meaning so much that they started fixing their fu decorations upside down to 'invoke' a 'pouring out' of blessings. So '你们的福倒了' could be understood as ‘Your fu (blessing) has been poured out’. 倒 (dao /daoww/) means 'to invert', but also means 'to pour out'. On the first day of Chinese New Year, their first guest came to visit, and saw the upside-down 福, and kindly shouted to them: '你们的福倒了!' ('Your fu is upside down!').

One Chinese New Year's day (the exact year is not known now), a family attached their 福 ( fu) upside down as a careless mistake. This interesting tradition may have come from an innocent mistake. See more ideas about beijing china, dekorasi, tahun baru imlek. So by upturning the character implies they're 'pouring out' the jar of good fortune on those coming through the door! The Legend of the Upside-Down Fu 2018 Agu 8 - Explore Jessica Marthens board Chinese New Year Decorations on Pinterest. The right side of the character was originally a pictogram for a jar. Add to Favourites chinese new year gift hampers, lunar new year decoration, chinese room decor doll, rattan furniture lunar new year, CNY accesories (14) CA 151.18. Fu means 'good fortune', and posting the character upside down means they want the 'good fortune' to 'pour out' on them. Chinese New Year Decoration - Lion Dance/ Qilin/ Lucky Koi Fish DIY Regular building block set (150) CA 36.99. The fu characters are deliberately inverted. Similar to New Year couplets, and sometimes as paper cuttings, is the pasting of big diamonds (squares at 45°) of paper calligraphy with the inverted Chinese character 福 (fú /foo/) on or over doors.

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