{"id":206591,"date":"2020-02-04T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visiontimes.com\/?post_type=cms-article&p=206591"},"modified":"2022-11-30T23:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T04:30:48","slug":"what-the-chinese-character-%e7%a6%8f-fu-can-teach-about-ones-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/2020\/02\/04\/what-the-chinese-character-%e7%a6%8f-fu-can-teach-about-ones-mindset.html","title":{"rendered":"What the Chinese Character \u798f F\u00fa Can Teach About One\u2019s Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Chinese character f\u00fa (\u00a0\u798f<\/a>)\u00a0is traditionally seen as a good omen in China, especially around the New Year. Sometimes, people will hang up signs, paper cuts, or embroideries carrying the character f\u00fa\u00a0on them in different places. You’ll find f\u00fa in stores, in windows, or dangling from the rearview mirrors of cars.<\/p>\n

F\u00fa translated into English means good luck or fortune. It can also mean wealth or luck, depending on the context. The following text will try to make a connection between the way it can be interpreted and how you can apply that to transforming your mindset to become happier and more successful. 2020 is the year of the rat. So you\u2019ll probably see many motives related to the rat. They will all have one thing in common, however \u2014 the Chinese symbol f\u00fa.<\/p>\n

But also, you may find f\u00fa in between different motifs like two fish, or a dragon and a phoenix. Depending on which context you find f\u00fa in, the meaning or its symbolic interpretation may differ slightly. All in all, there is only one way to write f\u00fa (\u798f<\/a>). As a matter of fact, there are many different ways people get creative and illustrate the Chinese character, as the following papercut illustrates.<\/p>\n

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A Chinese papercut showing the character f\u00fa 100 times. (Image: Patricia BjaalandWelch via Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Understanding f\u00fa and its variations in meaning depending on the context resembles how we see ourselves and the need for luck in our daily lives. For someone battling with illness, f\u00fa or luck can mean health. For someone in dire need of income, f\u00fa or fortune may mean a job. For someone in need of revenue in their business, \u798f<\/a>\u00a0or luck may mean customers.<\/p>\n

How can you change your mindset by understanding f\u00fa? Understanding the different relations it has to life can be of great help when you are adjusting your mindset, which is like a type of inner compass. If you know your goal-set in your mind, then a compass can give you direction, and your actions will take you there. Your mindset can play the role of creating obstacles and adversities on the way to your goal \u2014 or the opposite. For someone battling with being overweight and the health issues related to it, using the deeper meaning of f\u00fa to change your mindset may mean replacing the fear of failure with the empowering meaning of f\u00fa (good luck and fortune).<\/p>\n

This means that instead of thinking: \u201cWhy even bother trying, I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll fail anyway,\u201d you could also think: \u201cIn the New Year, I want to lose weight. I wish for f\u00fa. I will take action and do everything I can to accomplish my goal.\u201d\u00a0F\u00fa\u00a0does not mean that luck will suddenly fall from heaven. It means that whatever you do will bring about luck in the context you need it.\u00a0So we still need to take action to get lucky and break a sweat here and there, or in other words \u2014 believing in a lucky outcome of your actions is different from challenging life to give you a lucky outcome, even though you don\u2019t believe in what you are doing.<\/p>\n

For the traditional Chinese minded, fish is always part of the New Year celebration meals because it symbolizes luck, wealth, and abundance in everything you do during the New Year. In the same way, wishing for luck and abundance may mean that the student will have to do what a student does to get good marks, and what a salesman will have to do to be a good salesman.<\/p>\n

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The f\u00fa sign in between a dragon and a phoenix has a special meaning. (Image: via mmbiz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is mindset?<\/h2>\n

Mindset refers to the way a person thinks \u2014 his notions and beliefs that control his emotions and actions when trying to bring about the desired outcome. If, for example, you believe that money is bad and the root of all evil, but at the same time you are trying to start your own business with something you believe helps other people, you may be limited in your ability to close a sale and land a customer, just because of your mindset in regards to money.<\/p>\n

But if, for example, you don\u2019t care whether you have the money or not, but you price your service or product in a fair and truthful way, then you will have a different confidence when you are in a negotiation and asking someone to pay that price \u2014 which you know is honest and fair. This shows that the outcome may be entirely different because one\u2019s mindset is also different. That\u2019s just to illustrate the effect of a certain type of mindset a person has on their actions directed at a certain desired outcome \u2014 how the deeper meaning of f\u00fa relates to the context.<\/p>\n

F\u00fa\u00a0with two fish<\/h2>\n

In the context of two fish, f\u00fa means luck in terms of abundance. This is just like in the past when people\u2019s survival was based on having enough to eat. The abundance of fish in the fisherman\u2019s net would be a sign of luck. But nevertheless, the fisherman has to do what a fisherman does to catch luck and abundance.<\/p>\n

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F\u00fa with a little traditional-looking Chinese boy. (Image: via mmbiz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

F\u00fa\u00a0with a dragon and a phoenix<\/h2>\n

The f\u00fa sign in between a dragon and a phoenix has a special meaning, in regard to male and female aspects. But to really understand the meaning of f\u00fa in this context, you have to understand the traditional meaning of the phoenix and the dragon. Traditionally, the dragon symbolizes the divine male aspect in regard to a ruler like a king or an emperor. Whereas the phoenix represents the divine female aspect in terms of a ruler like a queen or an empress. The meaning of f\u00fa in this context means a divine form of bestowing luck on humans. The higher divine beings are the symbolic holder of this good luck and by venerating higher beings up there with respect, they will share that good luck with us down here.<\/p>\n

The child symbolizes the passing down of good luck and fortune, the passing down to their descendants and many generations to come. For society today, this could even be interpreted as all good things that bring luck and fortune being passed down from one generation to another. This could be traditional culture, family values, and universal morals and values. Essentially what we pass down within a family from parents to children, for example, is more than just material wealth. It is also a way of thinking, a way of dealing with life\u2019s adversities, and a strategy of consistently doing whatever it is you need to do to reach the desired outcome.<\/p>\n

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The Chinese character f\u00fa (\u00a0\u798f)\u00a0is traditionally seen as a good omen in China, especially around the New Year. Sometimes, people will hang up signs, paper cuts, or embroideries carrying the character f\u00fa\u00a0on them in different places. You’ll find f\u00fa in stores, in windows, or dangling from the rearview mirrors of cars. F\u00fa translated into English … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":207011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,19],"tags":[1212,1496,3348,22955,11909,11128],"ppma_author":[27959],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","authors":[{"term_id":27959,"user_id":394,"is_guest":0,"slug":"hermann-r","display_name":"Hermann Rohr","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/vtwp-media.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2021\/04\/Hermann-Rohr-scaled.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/vtwp-media.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2021\/04\/Hermann-Rohr-scaled.jpg"},"last_name":"Rohr","user_url":"https:\/\/hermannrohr.com","first_name":"Hermann","description":"Hermann Rohr is a Travel, Lifestyle, and Culture, journalist based in Leverkusen, Germany. He has always been interested in the \"human state\", what keeps the world together and moves it from within. These days, Hermann spends most of his creative time, editing, writing and filming outstanding content for Nspirement."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513299,"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206591\/revisions\/513299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206591"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nspirement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=206591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}