Three - Health

The number 3 sounds similar to the character for "birth", and is considered a lucky number.

The number 3 is significant since there are three important stages in a man’s life (birth, marriage and death). In Chinese culture, “three” is also an identification of “many”, which is also a very typical and archetypal number. There are also a lots of idioms and phrase about “three”

繞梁三日

reverberates around the rafters for three days

三，天地人之道也。 Three is the “Dao” of heaven, earth and human.

一生二，二生三，三生萬物。

Everything comes from three: The Way bears sensation, Sensation bears memory, Sensation and memory bear abstraction, And abstraction bears all the world.