know any chinese superstitions?
okay, so i'm just wondering about the superstitutions that native chinese people believe in.
Like, i thought that this was interesting. A lot of chinese people believe that the numbers 4 and 14 are unlucky. So, sometimes, people would skip that number in buildings. I stayed at this place in China where they replaced 4 with 5a and 14 with 15a! heh, yeah, i thought that was soo weird so i took a picture. lol, but that's just me.
So now, i'm totally curious about chinese superstitutions. so tell me more..?
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13 is deemed an unlucky number as it is the number of people present at the last supper of the Christ. Same reason for Friday of the 13th.
2, 250, 25 was new to me. :D
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a lot..
13..it seems many countries don't like it, neither does China.
250..25..also kind of unwelcomed number, Chinese use them on people who did something silly(i don't know if i made it clear..).
and 2(二 er) sometimes can be used when describe one's silly, too..but we don't avoid it, sometimes we even use "二" to praise some cute little guy. just sometimes.
hope you can understand what i say too..
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and Chinese people like 8 and 6,maybe you know that
8 looked as "发", means get more money or be much better and so on..
and both 6 ,"66大顺" means do everything can be all right and do them good ...
maybe my english is not good.... = =+ hope you can understand what i say...
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not only does china but many asian countries also dislike 4, did you notice that Nokia never released any 4xxx series cell phone in asia.
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because number 4 in chinese said "死 si"
it means die. So chinese people don't like it.
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