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dr_astin

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They say that when fu, 福, luck, is written upside down it looks like dao, 到, to have arrived. This then means that fortune has arrived, and the sign is often posted in doors after fortuitous events to indicate that fortune has arrived; an example: the birth of a child.

Red, of course, is the best color you can find, and apples, they are tasty and healthy, although I have never really seen them used to stand for anything. (though, if I had to venture a guess I would propose that either: A. This was drawn by a child and from personal experience I can say that apples were the easiest to draw when I first learned, or B. that the pronuncitation of pingguo, apple, sounds like ping, peace)

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'Fu upside down' is 福倒了 in Chinese, which sounds like 福到了, which means 'Luck/happiness has arrived'. That's why you often see them hanging upside down.

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