Today is a lucky day! And the summer Olympics begin. I loved watching the Opening Ceremony! My favorite outfit was Sweden I loved how they took chinese clothes and put there flag on them. Support our fellow Americans! Anyway, I looked up why the number 8 is lucky for the Chinese on Wikipedia. Hope you all have the best of luck today!
EightThe word for "eight" (八，捌) in Mandarin (Pinyin: bā) sounds similar to the word which means "prosper" or "wealth" (发 - short for "发财", Pinyin: fā). In regional dialects the words for "eight" and "fortune" are also similar, eg Cantonese "baat" and "faat".There is also a resemblance between two digits, "88", and the shuang xi ('double joy'), a popular decorative design composed of two stylized characters 喜 (xi, 'joy', 'happiness').Telephone number 8888-8888 was sold for USD$270,723 in Chengdu, China.The Summer Olympics in Beijing are scheduled to open on 8/8/08 at 8:08:08pm[2]A man in Hangzhou offered to sell his license plate reading A88888 for RMB 1.12 million.[2]Dragon Fish Industry in Singapore, a breeder of rare Asian Arowanas (which are "lucky fish" themselves, and, being a rare species, are required to be microchipped), makes sure to use numbers with plenty of eights in their microchip tag numbers, and appears to reserve particular numbers especially rich in eights and sixes (e.g. 702088880006688) for particularly valuable specimens.[3][4]
