Is it modern real estate Feng Shui to avoid numbers such as "4" and "13"?
Mr. Wang, who has been working in Jilin for a short time, recently told reporters that he found that many office buildings did not have 4, 13 or 14 floors. Because I didn't know before, I got confused several times when delivering mineral water to customers. The reporter visited and found that most of the newly built communities do not have Building 4, Building 13 and Building 14. According to relevant sources, the real estate industry has begun to avoid numbers such as "4" and "13" in recent years.
The reporter saw in a new office building on Jingyi Road that the buttons on the 4th, 13th, 14th, and 18th floors in the elevator were marked with "3A", "12A", "15B", and "17A" respectively. When replaced, the room number on the floor will also change accordingly. For example, room 1 on the 13th floor is marked "12A01", which is very similar to the "1201" sign on room 1 on the 12th floor. It is understood that many people who do not understand the difference between "3A" and "3" mistakenly walk past the room when they arrive at the office building. The reporter visited many newly built communities and found that there were other building numbers, but Building 4, Building 13, Building 14 and other buildings were missing. Different from the habit of using "3A" instead of "4" on office building floors, these communities generally do not look for alternative symbols, but directly skip "4".
Senior construction engineer Zhao Fanglian said that the city's real estate industry has started to avoid numbers such as "13" in recent years. This phenomenon generally did not occur in early residential areas and high-rise buildings. Regarding the reasons for avoiding these numbers, a real estate developer said that among the buildings they have developed in recent years, buildings and floors with numbers such as "4" and "13" are generally difficult to sell and rent. Because "4" is a homophonic sound for "death", "14" is a homophonic sound for "dying", and "13" is an unlucky number in Western tradition.
The reporter’s interview found that different people often have different opinions on the real estate industry’s practice of avoiding numbers such as “13”. Ms. Wei, who works in a consulting company, believes that this belongs to modern real estate Feng Shui and is a practice in line with international standards. Mr. Su, who works in a public institution, believes that relying on avoiding numbers to seek good fortune is not worthy of recognition, especially public buildings cannot cater to this approach. Others believe that this approach has not had much impact on the work and life of residents, nor has it caused any inconvenience to government departments in terms of management, so it can develop naturally.
Zhao Fanglian said that there are no regulations in the national building standards that force or prohibit the change of numbers such as "4". Avoiding these numbers is just a measure taken by developers or property managers. It is understood that Guangzhou, Dongguan and other places have begun to implement new regulations that do not avoid numbers such as "4". It is required that the floors of houses must be numbered in the order of natural numbers, and no skipped numbers, missing numbers, or other markings are allowed. The reporter consulted the relevant city departments and learned that our city has not yet banned the real estate industry from avoiding numbers such as "4", but relevant people believe that not all home buyers are allergic to the so-called "unlucky numbers", and developers must truly cooperate with international In line with the standards, the focus should be on housing quality, timely fulfillment of service commitments and price transparency.