Meaning: Auspicious term describing flourishing like a blossom, rich and prosperous. It represents people's desire for a happy life, richness and nobility. Bats are sometimes seen in the picture of blossom and wealth, because the word for bat is "bat" and "wealth".

Pronunciation: huā kāi fù guì

Origin: Zhao Shixue, in the Qing Dynasty, wrote in "Peony Fortune and Nobility": Peony has the name of king, the first of ten thousand flowers, and the name of the four seas, and it is finally called by the name of wealth and nobility. The peony has been called rich and noble, and it is not suitable to be called the lotus of cleanliness, and it is not suitable to be called the chrysanthemum of seclusion. The reason for this is that the peony is the only one that is rich and noble.

Translation: The peony has the title of king, and is the leader of all flowers, and is famous in the four corners of the world, so it is called by the name of Fugui. Since it is called rich and noble, the purity of the lotus flower is not suitable, nor is the seclusion of the chrysanthemum, so it can only be the peony that takes the name of richness and nobility alone.

Citation: Li Bihua, "Farewell My Concubine": He opened the fan with scarlet peony blossoms on a gold background, trembling and covering his face, warbling and swallowing lazily. Guifei. Only in the opera, he said the high and mighty.

Example sentence: we this three colors, can not paint the blossoms of wealth and prosperity, but also the whole can not be a splash of ink landscape bamboo peace.

Kindred Words: Bamboo Reporting Peace

Pronunciation: zhú bào píng ān

Meaning: a metaphor for peace and family letters.

Derivation: Tang Duan Chengshi (唐-段成式《酉阳雜俎续集-支植下》)："Beidu but the Tongzi Temple has a bamboo arena; it is only a few feet in length; it is rumored that its temple Zangwei reports the bamboo's peace every day."

Translation: In the northern capital, Taiyuan Prefecture, Jinyang City, there is a temple of the Child Temple, in which there is a nest of bamboo, which is only a few feet long; it is rumored that the monk of the temple's Szangwei uses the bamboo to report peace every day.

Grammar: subject-predicate tense; as a clause; with positive connotation

Example sentence: The autumn wind plucks at the heartstrings of the wanderers, urging them to quickly send a letter of peace by bamboo.

Allusion:

Folklore has it that there is a mountain kui with a length of more than ten feet living in the Zhongxiyun Mountain, which is infected with all kinds of diseases. A man named Li Tian, in order to avoid encountering the mountain ghosts, morning and evening put the bamboo into the fire to make it explode, the sound of which made the mountain ghosts flee in fear, so that everyone avoided disaster.

Later from New Year's Eve to New Year's Day, the invention of paper rolls of firecrackers, households burning, intended to drive away evil spirits, welcome peace. Therefore, there are "firecrackers in the sound of a year in addition to" or "firecrackers in addition to the old, the peach symbols of ten thousand elephants renewed" and other poems. Folk auspicious designs have painted bamboo or children put firecrackers, meaning peace.