Spring Is Here

Some day in February, and later on, I started seeing this symbol, black over a red background, in many places: on offices' doors, on corridor walls, on some doors on the street, even in taxis.

What is so special about it?. Not much until you realize that it is the same character that means Spring in Chinese (chūn) turned upside-down. I got an explanation the other day —and I really hope I remember it. The inverted character is similar to, or means, dao, which has the same sound as to arrive and, thus, these symbols hanging on the walls mean that Spring is already here. Simple and nice, isn't it?