8.08.08
This is one of the most auspiscious days ever for the Chinese!
Eight is their luckiest number.
We were recently in Langkawi, a small island off the coast of Malaysia and we stayed at a very small resort whose owner happened to be Chinese -
Each room in the resort had an eight in it!
By the way the number four is quite unlucky and many hotels do not have a fourth floor.
Some facts from Wikipedia:
The word for "eight" (八，捌) in Mandarin (Pinyin: bā) sounds similar to the word which means "prosper" or "wealth" (发 - short for "发财", Pinyin: fā). In regional dialects the words for "eight" and "fortune" are also similar, eg Cantonese "baat" and "faat".
There is also a resemblance between two digits, "88", and the shuang xi ('double joy'), a popular decorative design composed of two stylized characters 喜 (xi, 'joy', 'happiness').
Telephone number 8888-8888 was sold for USD$270,723 in Chengdu, China.
The Summer Olympics in Beijing are scheduled to open on 8/8/08 at 8:08:08pm[2]
A man in Hangzhou offered to sell his license plate reading A88888 for RMB 1.12 million.[2]
Dragon Fish Industry in Singapore, a breeder of rare Asian Arowanas (which are "lucky fish" themselves, and, being a rare species, are required to be microchipped), makes sure to use numbers with plenty of eights in their microchip tag numbers, and appears to reserve particular numbers especially rich in eights and sixes (e.g. 702088880006688) for particularly valuable specimens.
Eight is their luckiest number.
We were recently in Langkawi, a small island off the coast of Malaysia and we stayed at a very small resort whose owner happened to be Chinese -
Each room in the resort had an eight in it!
By the way the number four is quite unlucky and many hotels do not have a fourth floor.
Some facts from Wikipedia:
The word for "eight" (八，捌) in Mandarin (Pinyin: bā) sounds similar to the word which means "prosper" or "wealth" (发 - short for "发财", Pinyin: fā). In regional dialects the words for "eight" and "fortune" are also similar, eg Cantonese "baat" and "faat".
There is also a resemblance between two digits, "88", and the shuang xi ('double joy'), a popular decorative design composed of two stylized characters 喜 (xi, 'joy', 'happiness').
Telephone number 8888-8888 was sold for USD$270,723 in Chengdu, China.
The Summer Olympics in Beijing are scheduled to open on 8/8/08 at 8:08:08pm[2]
A man in Hangzhou offered to sell his license plate reading A88888 for RMB 1.12 million.[2]
Dragon Fish Industry in Singapore, a breeder of rare Asian Arowanas (which are "lucky fish" themselves, and, being a rare species, are required to be microchipped), makes sure to use numbers with plenty of eights in their microchip tag numbers, and appears to reserve particular numbers especially rich in eights and sixes (e.g. 702088880006688) for particularly valuable specimens.
posted by Renata at
21:24
1 Comments:
Hello Renata,
My name is Deborah. Ihave recently returned to Newcastle and my plans have, to say the least, not worked out. I am confused and feeling a sthough I have made a bad decision by returnibg here. Do you see any positive changes in work, romance or stability.(Just the usual questions for you I guess).
Thankyou debneal72@hotmail.com
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