{"id":6279,"date":"2019-11-10T21:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T21:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/lucky-number-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-10T21:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T21:42:20","slug":"lucky-number-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/lucky-number-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Number(2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Five<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">The number<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">5<\/strong><span>&nbsp;<\/span>(\u4e94w\u016d) is associated with the five elements (Water, Fire, Earth, Wood, and me<em><\/em>tal) in Chinese philosophy, and in turn was historically associated with the Emperor of China. For example, the Tiananmen gate, being the main thoroughfare to the Forbidden City, has five arches. It is also referred to as the pro<em><\/em>noun &quot;I&quot;, as the pro<em><\/em>nunciations of<strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&quot;I&quot;<\/strong><span>&nbsp;<\/span>(\u6211w\u014f or \u543ew&uacute;) and 5 are similar in Mandarin. In Cantonese, this word has the same pro<em><\/em>nunciation as the character \u5514and means &quot;not&quot;, pro<em><\/em>nounces (m\u0300h). This word has the same meaning and use as the word \u4e0dan therefore is usually negative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Six<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">The number 6 also represents wealth in Cantonese, this number is a homophone for<strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">money<\/strong>(\u797fl&ugrave;).<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">6<\/strong><span>&nbsp;<\/span>(\u516dli&ugrave;) in Mandarin is pro<em><\/em>nounced the same as<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&quot;liu&quot;<\/strong><span>&nbsp;<\/span>(\u6e9cli&ugrave;) and similar to<strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&quot;flow&quot;<\/strong><span>&nbsp;<\/span>(\u6d41li&uacute;) and is therefore co<em><\/em>nsidered good for business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2324278211\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FiveThe number&nbsp; 5&nbsp; (\u4e94w\u016d) is associated with the five elements (Water, Fire, Earth, Wood, and metal) in Chinese philosophy, and in turn was historically associated with the Emperor of China. For example, the Tiananmen gate, being the main thoroughfare to the Forbidden City, has five arches. It is also referred to as the pronoun &quot;I&quot;, as the pronunciations of&quot;I&quot;&nbsp; (\u6211w\u014f or \u543ew&uacute;) and 5 are similar in Mandarin. In Cantonese, this word has the same pronunciation as the character \u5514and means &quot;not&quot;, pronounces (m\u0300h). This word has the same meaning and use as the word \u4e0dan therefore is usually negative.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[302,151,114],"class_list":["post-6279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-traditional-chinese-festivals","tag-in-mandarin","tag-mandarin","tag-pronunciation"],"views":175,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}