The Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou is a comprehensive cultural venue built to commemorate Tang Xianzu, one of the world’s hundred great cultural figures and a master of Ming‑dynasty drama in China. It is also one of Jiangxi Province’s ten major memorial halls dedicated to historical luminaries.

Event News | Highlights from the “Welcoming Fortune and Prosperity” New Year Community Education Event

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2023-01-05

Joy
Welcome
Fortune
Come

The custom of pasting the character “fu” (blessing) during the New Year is a time-honored tradition in Chinese folk culture. As early as three thousand years ago, inscriptions on Shang and Zhou bronze vessels already featured the “fu” character in various forms. Over time, with the emergence of scripts such as ancient seal script, small seal script, clerical script, cursive script, regular script, and running script, the calligraphic styles of the “fu” character have grown ever more diverse and increasingly artistic. Whether today or in the past, the “fu” character has always embodied people’s yearning for a happy life and their hopes for a bright future.

A Moment of Brilliance

To create a festive and harmonious holiday atmosphere, on the morning of January 1, 2023, the Tang Xianzu Museum in Fuzhou City hosted a “Welcoming Blessings” New Year celebration on the first floor of Yuming Hall, drawing numerous visitors.

Write each stroke carefully and conscientiously.

Guided by museum staff, visitors personally picked up brushes and dipped them in ink, writing their own unique “Fu” characters on red paper, savoring the festive joy of the New Year and expressing their hopes for a bright new year. Despite the biting cold wind, this did not dampen anyone’s enthusiasm for joining the event; the atmosphere was exceptionally lively, and the warmth of the festivities banished the chill outside.