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The number “9” has always had special meaning for the Chinese. It’s the biggest single-digit number, and the Chinese have always believed that when something reaches the extreme, it will go in the opposite direction.
A student displays a banner with one of the slogans chanted by the crowd of some 200,000 pouring into Tiananmen Square in Beijing on April 22, 1989. CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP/Getty Images
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Jennifer Zeng is a former freelance contributor to The Epoch Times.
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