It’s almost exactly nine months to the beginning of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, so guess what’s on the mind of young couples?
You guessed it! Let's get pregnant and have a baby timed to the opening ceremony.
After all, Aug. 8, 2008 at 8 p.m. is a resonant moment, given that Chinese believe that the number eight is lucky.
So listen to what some internet posters say about the subject on the Happy Marriage Community bulletin board.
Sugar: I wish I could have an Olympic baby next year. I think it would be very meaningful. But I’m worried that many other people have the same idea. If that happens, the number of pregnant women at the hospital will be so high. (Once an Olympic baby boom takes place) there will be more competition when the kids go to school and take exams.
Lisa-mouse: I read yesterday’s newspaper, which said there are many people who want to give birth to babies next year. It will be another baby boom.
Louise: I don’t know why so many people follow others. Don’t do things so intentionally.
Gigi5299: I will give birth to an Olympic baby
Dancing Red Demon: I really want to give birth but I really don’t know whether I can catch it on the right day.
illy80: I also want to give birth to an Olympic baby. But the next two years of astrological signs are ox and tiger. They are not good…
Sohu.com, one of China’s most popular portals, has a special webpage called Baby Bulletin. It explains a little about Olympic babies and also has some online postings.
MiaoMiao: May I ask, if I want to give birth on Aug. 8, when is the best time for me to get pregnant? My period is on the first day of each month.
Netizen: My old man and I also plan to have a baby – a healthy, lively, smart Olympic baby.
What if the baby arrives a tad early on the 4th, or late on the 14th?
4:14am/pm?
4:24?
14:14?
Posted by: A B | November 01, 2007 at 06:41 PM
the chinese... o my god help them.
maybe they should evolve and leave the superstitions behind already, for all of our sakes.
Posted by: micD | November 01, 2007 at 09:50 PM
micD, please find me a place where nobody is superstitious. Utopia?
Posted by: Pffefer | November 01, 2007 at 09:54 PM
Lets ask all the readers of this blog to burn lots of joss sticks, make lots of offerings to our ancestors, worship buddah, pray to allah, pray to god, pray to all the gods, and other assorted deities to end these superstitions and feudal practices and utter in the era of scientific socialism for the Chinese.
Oh don't forget.... include that one referred as 'my god' above to help them too.... can't leave anyone out of this equal opportunity anti feudal movement to rectify these barbarians.
Posted by: A B | November 01, 2007 at 10:34 PM
A belief in an all-powerful God is more based in realism than a belief in a number.
I suppose alot of women are going to have their deliveries induced to coordinate their little emporer's arrival with the auspicious date of the genocide olympics.
Posted by: nanheyangrouchuan | November 02, 2007 at 02:33 AM
To all my believers:
I need your contact details, passwords, answer to secret questions, name, address, phone numbers, bank account numbers, your ID cards, birth certificate, and all the other stuff needed for your earthly existence.
Please post your name and number on here now and my representatives will call from Nigeria for the rest.
God
Posted by: God | November 02, 2007 at 07:58 AM
God already knows those things.
Bad, lying, false god China.
Posted by: nanheyangrouchuan | November 02, 2007 at 02:39 PM
nanhe, go look at a rerun of Oman before critisizing other cultures on their belief of numbers...
Besides, your criticism of Chinese superstition buts you deep in bed with the CCP, especially the old school Chairman Mao CCP in the 1970s. The cultural revolution they started was specifically targeted against the supersticious and 'primative' ways of the old Chinese society, responsible for China's plight in the early 1900s.
Posted by: rio | November 05, 2007 at 04:16 AM