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.

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.