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The Chinese character fu (福; fú ⓘ), 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 , and Shòu .
One of them has become well known in the history of Chinese cuisine: his "Fu on Pasta" (Chinese: 餅賦; pinyin: Bǐng fù) is an encyclopedic description of a wide variety of dough-based foods, including noodles, steamed buns, and dumplings, [26] which had not yet become the traditional Chinese foods they are now.
Classical fu composers tended to use as wide a vocabulary as possible in their compositions, and therefore fu often contain rare and archaic Chinese words and characters. [5] The fu genre came into being around the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC and continued to be regularly used into the Song dynasty (960–1279).
Painting of the Duke of Zhou by Kanō Sansetsu. Japan, Edo period, 1632. His personal name was Dan (旦).He was the fourth son of King Wen of Zhou and Queen Tai Si.His eldest brother Bo Yikao predeceased their father (supposedly a victim of cannibalism); the second-eldest defeated the Shang dynasty at the Battle of Muye around 1046 BC, ascending the throne as King Wu.
Fu (府) means an office or a command institution. The character appears in the Chinese words for "government" (政府, zhėngfǔ) or "official's residence" (府邸, fǔdǐ), and names of official institutions such as the "Imperial Household Department" (內務府, Nèiwùfǔ) in China or "Office of the President" (總統府, Zǒngtǒngfǔ) in Taiwan.
During the Cao Wei period, Cao Zhi wrote a poem called "Fu on the Luo River Goddess". The poem contains references to the spirit of the Luo River, named Consort Fu (Chinese: 宓妃; pinyin: Fúfēi), interpreted as a proxy for Empress Zhen by those who believed in Cao Zhi's infatuation with her. Because of this prose poem, his sister-in-law ...
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The late imperial Chinese held patriarchalism high as an organizing principle of society, as laws and punishments gradually became more strict and severe. [108] During the same time, in Japan, a classic work about filial practices was compiled, called Biographies of Japanese Filial Children (Japanese pronunciation: Fu San Ko Shi Dan). [37]