Posting the "福" is a tradition for Chinese people during Spring Festival each year. "福" is difficult to translate into English; it means something like "幸福" and "福气" . Posting the "福" character represents people's wish for a good life and happy future.
The "福" character is often posted upside-down. It is said that this is because the character for "upside-down", "倒" , is a homonym of the character for "to arrive", "到" . So this means that "福" is "arriving".
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