{"id":14498,"date":"2020-02-15T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/spoken-chinese\/when-have-you-eaten-means-hello\/"},"modified":"2020-02-15T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T15:16:40","slug":"when-have-you-eaten-means-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/when-have-you-eaten-means-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"When &#8216;Have you eaten?&#8217; means &#8216;Hello&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>             Results found with the tag  <span>&#8216;customs&#8217;<\/span> , <span>32<\/span> articles in total.         <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>                                              <span>[Customs]<\/span>                                                                   <span>When &#8216;Have you eaten?&#8217; means &#8216;Hello&#8217;<\/span>\n<p>&#8220;Have you eaten?&#8221; is a common greeting among older Chinese. It harks back to the days food scarcity in China. There are a lot of informal greetings to express the meaning of &#8220;hello&#8221;, such as &#8220;whe<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>                             <span>2014-01-01 10:00:00+0800<\/span>                         <\/div>\n<div>                                                          festivals                                                          customs                                                          traditions                                                      <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>                                              <span>[Customs]<\/span>                                                                   <span>Chinese Lucky Numbers and Unlucky Numbers<\/span>\n<p>Numerology has always been important to Chinese, and the role of numbers in determining luck has a long history. Chinese are generally favored even numbers. 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