- FU: interjection acronym for 'fuck you'. See more words with the same meaning: acronyms (list of). See more words with the same meaning: retorts and taunts (list of).
- 'Although Fu's books are motionless, their exuberant shapes, intense colors, and closely interwoven pop-up pages give the impression of being alive. Her themes are largely inspired by her personal experiences, but her art also embodies—and inspires—feelings of joy, sorrow, and curiosity experienced by all of humankind.Each of Fu's pop-up books tells a story.
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The character Fú (福, Unicode U+798F) meaning 'fortune' or 'good luck' is represented both as a Chinese ideograph and, at times, pictorially, in one of its homophonous forms. It is often found on a figurine of the male god of the same name, one of the trio of 'star gods' Fú, Lù, Shòu.
Mounted Fú are a widespread Chinese tradition associated with Chinese New Year and can be seen on the entrances of many Chinese homes worldwide. The characters are generally printed on a square piece of paper or stitched in fabric. The practice is universal among Chinese people regardless of socioeconomic status, and dates to at least the Song Dynasty (AD 960 – 1279).
When displayed as a Chinese ideograph, Fú is often displayed upside-down on diagonal red squares. The reasoning is based on a wordplay: in nearly all varieties of Chinese: the words for 'upside-down' (倒, Pinyin: dào) and 'to arrive' (到, Pinyin: dào) are homophonous. Therefore, the phrase an 'upside-down Fú' sounds nearly identical to the phrase 'Good luck arrives'. Pasting the character upside-down on a door or doorpost thus translates into a wish for prosperity to descend upon a dwelling.
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Another story states that posting the character upside-down originates with the family of a 19th-century prince of the Qing Dynasty.[citation needed] The story states that on one Chinese New Year's Eve (or Chuxi, Chinese: 除夕), the prince's servants played a practical joke by pasting fu characters throughout his royal dwelling. One illiterate servant inadvertently placed the characters upside-down. The prince was said to have been furious upon seeing the characters, but a quick-thinking servant humbly calmed the prince by saying that the occurrence must have been a sign of prosperity 'arriving' upon his household by using the above wordplay.
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Bats (蝠) are the most ubiquitous of all Chinese symbols with the same symbolic meaning as the ideograph 'fortune' (福).[2] A less common representation is bran (麸子), not only because 'depictions of grain have been used throughout Chinese history to represent fecundity'[3] but also in combination with other grains with related homophonous word-plays (for example, lì which can mean either 'grain' 粒 or 'profit' 利).[4]
Usage of the character Fú (福) in various forms of calligraphy and seal characters as papercuts or posters represents the desire that one's good luck will be expansive and come in many forms. Chinese textiles and ceramics often found transcribe this felicitous message by portraying random numbers of bats in flight, sometimes can be more than a hundred.
Since 2017, the version 10 of the Unicode Standard features a rounded version of the character in the 'Enclosed Ideographic Supplement' block, at code point U+1F260 (ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR FU).[5]
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Pair of 'Famille Verte' wine pots in the form of Fu (福) on the left and Shou (寿) on the right
Chinese New Year decorations in Hong Kong, with Fu on the Chinese knotting on the right
A pebble mosaic in a small inner courtyard of the Mu Mansion, Old Town of Lijiang, Yunnan, with Fu character in the center
Chinese New Year celebration in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 2009, with Fu in the front of the float
Fu lantern at the Singapore River Hongbao Carnival during the Chinese New Year in 2006
Chinese New Year decorations at Western Union's headquarters in Englewood, Colorado, with the center character Fu displayed upside down
See also[edit]
- Foo, originally derived from this
- The shou character (寿), a Chinese character symbolizing longevity
- Double Happiness (calligraphy) (囍), another common calligraphic design symbolizing good-luck and happiness
- Homophonic puns in Mandarin Chinese, of which 'Fú' upside down is one
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References[edit]
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- ^Welch, Chinese Art, p. 4, by permission of the author
- ^Welch, Patricia Bjaaland, Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery, Tuttle Publishing, 2008, pp. 112–3.
- ^Welch, Chinese Art, p. 52
- ^Welch, Chinese Art, p. 52.
- ^'The Unicode Standard, Version 10.0, Enclosed Ideographic Supplement'(PDF). unicode.org. The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
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Pair of 'Famille Verte' wine pots in the form of Fu (福) on the left and Shou (寿) on the right
Chinese New Year decorations in Hong Kong, with Fu on the Chinese knotting on the right
A pebble mosaic in a small inner courtyard of the Mu Mansion, Old Town of Lijiang, Yunnan, with Fu character in the center
Chinese New Year celebration in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 2009, with Fu in the front of the float
Fu lantern at the Singapore River Hongbao Carnival during the Chinese New Year in 2006
Chinese New Year decorations at Western Union's headquarters in Englewood, Colorado, with the center character Fu displayed upside down
See also[edit]
- Foo, originally derived from this
- The shou character (寿), a Chinese character symbolizing longevity
- Double Happiness (calligraphy) (囍), another common calligraphic design symbolizing good-luck and happiness
- Homophonic puns in Mandarin Chinese, of which 'Fú' upside down is one
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References[edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to 福. |
- ^Welch, Chinese Art, p. 4, by permission of the author
- ^Welch, Patricia Bjaaland, Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery, Tuttle Publishing, 2008, pp. 112–3.
- ^Welch, Chinese Art, p. 52
- ^Welch, Chinese Art, p. 52.
- ^'The Unicode Standard, Version 10.0, Enclosed Ideographic Supplement'(PDF). unicode.org. The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
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Biographical Sketch
Liang Fu joined the MIT Physics Department as an Assistant Professor in January 2012. Slots free vegas casino slot machines. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 and PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. Before coming to MIT, he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University.
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- 2016// New Horizons in Physics Prize 'for outstanding contributions to condensed matter physics, especially involving the use of topology to understand new states of matter.'
- 2014// Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics 'for his contribution to generalization of the concept of topological insulators from two to three dimensions.'
Liang Fu and C. L. Kane, 'Topological Insulators with Inversion Symmetry', Phys. Rev. B 76, 045302 (2007).
Liang Fu and C. L. Kane, 'Superconducting Proximity Effect and Majorana Fermions at the Surface of a Topological Insulator', Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 096407 (2008).
Liang Fu, 'Electron Teleportation via Majorana Bound States in a Mesoscopic Superconductor', Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 056402 (2010).
