As homophones and near-homophones, Chinese numbers when strung together and read aloud can produce results both auspcious and not. Scroll down and you'll find a good set of examples on this Wiki page:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture
Thus be careful selecting any numbers you'll be saying out loud a lot in China, like a flat address or phone number. Same homophone problem arises in picking a child's name.
That last post turned my reported posts to 1,444, and that's a number too hard to look at, so let me boost it up one.
It's hard to be optimistic for the future of the human race when more than a billion people believe that powdered rhino horn gives you an erection, shark's fin soup makes you fierce like a shark, and the number four is bad because of its sound.
Somehow the world's survived over 2000 years with vast numbers of people believing wine can become blood.
