Blessing - 福, one of the most popular characters in Chinese daily life

 Character Blessing - 福 is one of the most popular characters in Chinese daily life, even people who didn't have any education know the character.

You can find the character on red paper on doors, windows, inside of the room, and more. It is people's wish, hope, and prespective.

The following are character 福 in different script.

1, shell bone script 

The left is a table, the right is a liquor jar, spray the wine on the table for sacrifice ceremony for peace and blessing life. 

2, bronze script

The left is a table, the right is liquor jar.

3, Small seal script

The left is a table, the right is the jar.

4, Clerical script

The left is a table, the right is a liquor jar, not like the real objects any more because the lines changed from curve to straight.

5, Standard script

Lines even more straight, easier to write but the pictography is lost.

6, Running script

The lines are more flexible to allow the writer could write quicker, and smoother. People like the style. Running script is not unified, different people may write a little bit differently.

7, Cursive script

Even more flexible, the character changed a lot to let writer could write it with more continuously, all lines are connected visually or really. Cursive script has law to define how to write each character, even though people may write a little bit differently.