CNY food and decorations are now crazily being sold all over the country.
Two of the decorations are these:
First, why is the character, "福" shown upside down here?
The character actually means good fortune. And upside down in Mandarin sounds like "coming to you".
So, an upside down 福 means "Good fortune will come to you".
The second picture shows a chinese character which is not in the dictionary.
In fact, it's 4 chinese characters joined together to form one gigantic character.
This gigantic character consists of the 4 characters, 招财进宝 in traditional Chinese characters. It means "Wealth comes to you".
Happy CNY to all!
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