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hey guys welcome to off the great while I'm here with me what am I holding up behind my back wrong is numbers that have some sort of meaning to us like frame of mind is always dance stir 817 can you guess what 817 is what was play a huge role in lots of Chinese people from which is like the best to get married sometime simple as a phone number or like the street name or the house number whatever so we always try to treat the luckiest number and stay away from The Unlucky ones current so 0 or length is considered lucky because it is an even number and I'll associated with does a puppy say in Chinese saying how good things come in pairs if you ever into a Chinese wedding you'll see the symbol a lot this word sheet dance for happiness and I'm waiting it's written like this which is actually still pronounced the same but written as a pad to symbolize the happiness of marriage 3 has the Chinese believe that human life has three stages child adult and elderly or birth and death the number 3 when said in Chinese also sounds like birth or six on its own is homeless enough that when he put three of them together in the west horrifying vages will come to mind what in China six is actually extremely lucky number and more of them the better because sticks or do in Chinese has the same sound as where that means flow or smooth Chinese think that the number six is great for business representing that fortune will flow in and the business will operate smoothly is probably granddaddy of all lucky numbers for Chinese people the number eight is so private phone number 888-8888 showed in China for some of $70,000 the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics was held on August 8th 2008 at precisely eight minutes and eight seconds past 8 p.m. now that's crazy that's obsessive when you turn the number eight on its side it's also the symbol for infinity so infinite well hahaha who was the Chinese emperor as a number nine or Joe has the same sound as longevity they're always Nine Dragons on the classic dragon wall paintings and supposedly there are 9000 199 rooms in the Forbidden City let's take a look at which numbers are considered unlucky to Chinese people start with the worst of them more oh my God this one is pretty self-explanatory what one is pretty straight for you want to get married in the month of death would you or have a phone number that is a bunch of dead like oatmeal is also cancelled on Lockwood is the same thing as meaning nothing and could be understood as not having anything when is the luckiest number to most westerners but the Chinese it is complicated 7 or chi in Chinese could mean anger or also mean next July or the 7th month is that ghost month believed to be the month with spirits and demons are removed from Health visit the living the number 13 is unlucky everywhere I guess but to Chinese people only because when you add the wine and three get the number pain is considered by some to be the worst number ever one can be pronounced make a bust I have to die or you want to die and that's all for today so actually I knew some of these things about these numbers but what I didn't realize was that in China like business play is like your address all were predicated on these numbers video share with your friends

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