I am curious actually. The no 8 is considered a lucky number by the chinese. Thats why we have many going after the number 8, 88, 888 or 8888 for thier cars, houses, tel no, road street that they stay in etcetc..
NOW, I read in the newspaper on saturday that although many tied the knot on that day of 8/8/08 but that day itself is considered not a lucky date/day to get married. How is it that a triple luck is still not lucky enough?
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Uncle warrior, in mandarin, 8 is pronounce as 'Ba' which means 'luck/lucky'. So 8,8,8 carries the meaning of luck, luck, luck. Unfortunately, the triple 8 day is not really an auspicious day to get married. Auspicious day have nothing to do with the triple 8 pronunciation. So in other words, though people thought that 888 is a lucky day to get married, but in truth, according to the Chinese calendar, it's not really an auspicious date to get married.
Thus, a truly superstitious chinese would not really get married on that particular date, but they would look up in their calendar or ask the fortune teller when is the real auspicious day for certain couple to tie the knot.
Clef, thanks for the explaination . I was curious on this when I read about it not being a good day to marry because of the hungry ghost thing being on the same day. I thought a triple 8 would trounce the ghost. hehe
tburn here,
sorry for short intro.
i thought 8-8-8 very lucky for chinese thats why China chose that date to start olympics...
no meh?
anon, I guess it is not.
The olympics also started at 8:08pm.
Addition to the date, it is 8-8-8-8-8
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