{"id":1094,"date":"2023-07-31T22:36:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2023-07-31T22:36:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:36:49","slug":"i-will-make-a-fortune-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"I Will Make a Fortune Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today is May 18, 518,\u00a0W\u01d2 y\u00e0o f\u0101<\/strong>! Sounds like an auspicious day to you, doesn\u2019t it? In daily life, we are surrounded by numbers and\u00a0inevitably deal with them every day in digital world. Numbers are meant to be calculated.\u00a0They are neither good nor bad. Some numbers\u00a0can be determined according to personal preferences. With the development of language and culture, people are constantly enriching connotation of numbers to express more ideas, especially 8 in Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The magic\u00a018<\/strong>\u00a0Have you ever noticed some interesting facts about the number\u00a018\u00a0(\u5341\u516b sh\u00ed b\u0101<\/strong>)?<\/p>\n\n\n

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The average length of a person\u2019s palm is 18 centimeters (\u5398\u7c73 l\u00ed m\u01d0<\/strong>); Human brain normally works for 18 hours (\u5c0f\u65f6 xi\u01ceo sh\u00ed<\/strong>) a day; The length of volleyball court is 18 meters (\u7c73 m\u01d0<\/strong>); Chinese citizens\u2019ID number consists of 18 digits (\u4f4d w\u00e8i<\/strong>); In China, 18 year-old (\u5c81 su\u00ec<\/strong>) is the legal age of competent civil conduct; the greatest characters in Chinese Buddhism is the Eighteen Arhat (\u5341\u516b\u7f57\u6c49 sh\u00ed b\u0101 lu\u00f3 h\u00e0n<\/strong>); The legendary team in Shaolin Temple is Eighteen Bronze Men (\u5341\u516b\u94dc\u4eba sh\u00ed b\u0101 t\u00f3ng r\u00e9n<\/strong>);\u2026and it is the 18 dragon-strike palms (\u964d\u9f99\u5341\u516b\u638c xi\u00e1ng l\u00f3ng sh\u00ed b\u0101 zh\u01ceng<\/strong>) kungfu kicks ass! <\/p>\n\n\n

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In Chinese, number eight 8 pronounces as b\u0101<\/strong>, which sounds like f\u0101<\/strong>, means becoming rich (\u53d1\u8d22 f\u0101 c\u00e1i<\/strong>). 1 and 8 together pronounce as y\u0101o b\u0101<\/strong>, which sounds like y\u00e0o f\u0101<\/strong>, means I will become rich. If the number could bring you money, who would not use it to turn the wonderful wish down? <\/p>\n\n\n

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Cultural Connotation<\/strong>B\u0101<\/strong> is probably the most favored number in China as it is associates with money and luck that can be observed everywhere. It is believed to be originated from Cantonese dialect and soon become popular in other parts of China for we are pursuing economic development and material achievements. But besides f\u0101<\/strong>, the homonymic to \u201cmaking a fortune\u201d, any other reasons behind?<\/p>\n\n\n

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In Taoism, eight represents entirety. We may find clues in\u00a0Book of Changes\u00a0(\u300a\u6613\u7ecf\u300by\u00ec j\u012bng<\/strong>) that\u00a0Eight Trigrams\u00a0(\u516b\u5366 b\u0101 gu\u00e0<\/strong>) is the foundation generating everything. The\u00a0eight directions\u00a0(\u516b\u65b9 b\u0101 f\u0101ng<\/strong>) indicates the whole universe in Taoist spatial conception. These eight directions are used to explain individual destiny by\u00a0Eight Characters\u00a0(\u516b\u5b57 b\u0101 z\u00ec<\/strong>), a Chinese fortune telling method that can describe one\u2019s life course through the diagrams of birth date.
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Chinese\u00a0obsession to number 8<\/strong>
The best example that shows how Chinese love 8 is when Beijing held Olympic Games. The opening ceremony commenced accurately at\u00a08:08:08 pm on August 8 in 2008<\/strong>. Not only the whole country wants an auspicious number for this big event, individuals also would like to grasp the good luck for themselves: giving birth to a baby during the time. In the same year of Beijing Olympic Games, there were 170 million newborns, 5 million more than the year before and hit a record. You may guess right, most of the babies were born in the eighth month.<\/p>\n\n\n

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<\/strong>Such complex of using number 8 in Chinese for f\u0101<\/strong> can be found in house number, license plate, mobile numbers and almost everywhere. Chinese may behave superstitous in this regard. However, in the eye of a modern, a good number more serves as a positive psychological hint that offers you a better mood. Why not accept it and make your day happier? At least w\u01d2 y\u00e0o f\u0101 is a lucky day for everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Today is May 18, 518,\u00a0W\u01d2 y\u00e0o f\u0101! Sounds like an auspicious day to you, doesn\u2019t it? In daily life, we are surrounded by numbers and\u00a0inevitably deal with them every day in digital world. Numbers are meant to be calculated.\u00a0They are neither good nor bad. Some numbers\u00a0can be determined according to personal preferences. With the development of language and culture, people are constantly enriching connotation of numbers to express more ideas, especially 8 in Chinese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[5],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}