Displaying butterflies

[moon88]

Dear cecil,
I read somewhere that chinese people consider it inauspicious to display the butterflies at home since they consider it to signify love which ends in tragedy. Is it true. Thanks.

[Cecil Lee]

Dear Anon,
1. The Chinese are very particular about phonetics or `sound like.. '.
2. For example, the Chinese dialect group: Cantonese, do not like number 4 because, to them it is `die'.
3. While number 8 to that is `Fatt' or prospher.
4. Unfortunately, the Chinese phonetic meaning for butterfly implies a person in his seventies. Which means `old age' or about to die.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 4/14/00 5:55:00 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Dear cecil,
I read somewhere that chinese
people consider it
inauspicious to display the
butterflies at home since they
consider it to signify love
which ends in tragedy. Is it
true. Thanks.