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On the left bottom is a sacrifice table, on the right is a wizard who sprinkles wine on the table for the sacrifice ceremony. People did the Sacrifice table + wine = Fortune, the wizard disappeared, or unnecessary to show. scripts. The right part is similar to that in small seal script. I have to point out that 福 is the most popular character in China, even used more than 龍 (Dragon). Most if not all Chinese families have had at least once to stick 福 on the door or window or both in Spring festival, or wedding, more times upside down, because 福 upside down pronounces same as Fortune is coming in Chinese. Chinese like to say I am a 华人（Magnificent People). Right now 华人 means Chinese people. The Pinyin for 华 is Hua2. In comparison, Pinyin for 花（Flower) is Hua1, very close. The top is left hand, the bottom is character Say (see post 158), which means that raise left hand to the chest and pray. Probably the bottom is character Tool, I don't know the reason for this change. The Pictography Dictionary explains: Invocation. Which doesn't explain the top changed a lot, we could imagine that the half curve in small or big seal scripts becomes to be a straight light, the long bent to Right now the top of Left is same as the top of Right in clerical script. The difference is that the hand in character Right is a moving hand, but the hand in character Hand is a static hand, no moving. Character with the former hand means catching, hitting, moving, holding, etc. Character with the latter means something related to hand. There is a Mouth under the hand.  Ancient Chinese put the right hand in front of mouth to pray. But it evolved to pure Right later on. The top changed a lot. The half circle in old scripts become less curved, and the middle horizontal turning to downward line becomes pure horizontal line, which is easy to write, but less pictography. The top three dots is character Small. The bottom is a bird. The top is character Small, and the bottom one is bird. We can see its similarity to shell bone script.