📖 Meaning
Having both blessings and prosperity. It describes someone who enjoys good fortune as well as wealth and official status with its accompanying salary. The idiom conveys the traditional Chinese ideal of a life blessed with both happiness and material abundance.
📜 Origin Story
This idiom originates from the Yuan dynasty playwright Jia Zhongming's work "Dui Yu Shu" (The Jade Comb), Act Four, where a character declares that she now enjoys both fortune and prosperity, sitting peacefully by the green window doing needlework. The phrase reflects the traditional Chinese aspiration for a life blessed with both happiness and worldly success through official rank. It has since become a common expression of good wishes for a life of complete prosperity.
💡 Example Usage
祝老人家福禄双全，安享晚年。
We wish the elder a life of both fortune and prosperity, enjoying his later years in peace.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 福禄双全
- Pinyin: fú lù shuāng quán
- Literal Translation: fortune, salary, both, complete
- Category: Condition
- Characters: 4