Monday, July 5, 2010

4th of July and Chinese tradition

  If you know a little of Chinese tradition trust, you will see that in Chinese trust, the number of four ( 4 ) mean : Dead sign, Chinese people always ( if they can ) not take that 4 number, they believe this number 4 is a Bad luck for they life.
In Jakarta you will see some building ( a lot ) do not have 
number 4 in their passenger lift, they only have number 1, 2, 3, 5 and so on,  or the number 4 change by other sign like : 3 A and 3 B; Also on the name card, some people write their office level without number 4, they afraid of that dead sign.
                                          4th of July Celebrates
BUT .......... this day is the Fourth of July, this day is the Independence day of America, the number 4 in here is very important for American people, they all celebrates this number 4 of day with happiness, there is no bad sign in here, the number 4 of July is a lucky number, who wants to change this number 4 with number 3 or 5 ?.
AND the amount of years of American Independence is : 234 years for this year, and again the number of 4 appear for this day double four for this year and still ........ luck sign.
Can you count something without number 4 ?, Four square for instance, do you have your house with ellipse model or pentagon shape than 4 square ?, ...... strange ...... do you have four children ?, who is the number 4 then ? ........ Can we live without number 4 ?, Of course not !, do you want bankrupt ?, and what about Four Seasons, must we change it with 5 seasons or 3 A seasons ? what kind of season is that ?, where on Earth of that season ?, ..... so the dead sign of number 4 is a false alarm.

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