Jose told us, tour guide, and Johnny, the local guide in Shanghai. It turns out that the Chinese are superstitious as you can imagine. So, in Spain some are reluctant to black cats or Tuesday 13, but in China these issues reach economic significance.
For starters there is the issue of numbers. The 4 is bad luck (I think it is phonetically similar to the word for "death") and 8 is the luckiest number. Conclusion: to buildios integer which eliminates the fourth floor, with many four phones are practically reserved for foreigners (and then are surprised that no one calls them, lol), a plate with four reduces the value the car and it increases if you have eight ... etc. We go slowly with the issue of tuition, which brings them. Given the huge escalation in the demand for cars in China, the government has limited the number of registrations, which gives rise to a competition first to register the car and second, get a license plate "desirable." In Hong Kong can directly bid on certain fees. In other places, are given in strictorder, but then those with greater economic capacity to buy their place in the other expected to have before your car or to grab a lucky number, ie with eight. And if not, there is another easy solution that allow some millionaires buy their own cars to eight, then "pull" the car and stay with registration with eight for supercochazo. It's the sweet deal he made a friend of our guide that he bought a new car with the money from selling his battered pileup that looked, however, a full enrollment of eight. (Incidentally, note that there is little utility in China, almost all cars arehigh range. I guess because only the new rich class and urban areas can access this right. People in rural or urban underemployment continues to go on foot or by bike. "Girls with mask, sleeves or umbrella, to keep them out of the sun, and brown is considered to be typical of rural and white skin is only permissible talking about feminine beauty. Another peculiarity of the Chinese fleet is that as recently as its economic takeoff, filling the roads of novice drivers. An additional factor to enhance its traffic chaos. In large cities like Beijing to reduce pollution, circular prohibiting certain daysXC
I said that the four da bad luck because it suggests death, but in Dazu, a village stuck in the past, we saw miniature coffins are sold as amulets because the name that designates it seems phonetic cally to the word fortune. Something similar occurs with the word "bat" and as a result of this animal figures appear in many old buildings whose tiles have inevitably this "brand."
Then there is the Feng Shui, we in the West may seem an exotic decorative, but in China is taken very, very seriously. Up
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