I hope you are all having fun learning about Chinese numbers
Online Chinese teacher is very responsible. With interesting games and professional teachers, kids will have a wonderful time at Lingo Bus. On our last two articles we talked about auspicious and inauspicious numbers. But what about the rest of the numbers between 0 and 10, do they have a special meaning? Or are we neglecting these and turning them into ‘leftover’ numbers? Although we focused on the auspicious numbers last week, other numbers between 0 and 10 also have very positive meanings. Let’s look at 3 (sān). The cultrual source of "3" comes from “ Tao Te Ching ” . There is one sentence that is expressed as" 1 generates 2, 2 generates 3, and 3 generates the world"( 一生二，二生三，三生万物 ). Therefore, "3" generates the whole world. And also it’s associated meaning ‘ 生 ’ (shēng) the character for birth. It’s thought that there’s no moment as special as giving birth. These numbers can sometimes be overlooked as they have both negative a...