Numbers

The Chinese people are VERY superstitious about numbers. They do NOT like the number 4, because when it is said in Chinese it sounds like the Chinese word for die. On the flip side, 8 is a very lucky number. If you look in the US, a lot of the Chinese places incorporate the number 8 into their restaurant name because they believe it brings good luck.
They are so superstitious about the number 4 that when you go into a hotel or apartment building they won't have a 4th, 14th, 24th... floor. Instead the floors will go 1, 2, 3, 3F, 5... and 11, 12, 13, 13F, 15... We were also told in a cultural class we took before we came to NEVER give anything to the Chinese people in groups of 4. Like if we were to give our neighbors cupcakes, you wouldn't want to give them 4....they probably wouldn't accept them!!
I find this very interesting, and I like to look for ways in which they have avoided the number 4. I suppose their is a certain superstition in the US for the number 13, but I really don't think we go to such great lengths to avoid it!