Tian Tian (female giant panda) Zoo said was hard to predict and the panda breeding season can last until late September. On 11 September 2017, the Zoo said that Tian Tian was not pregnant and her hormone levels had returned to normal. The coverage of Tian Tian's pregnancies at Edinburgh Zoo became so widespread that BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme PM broadcast satirical daily "Possible Panda Pregnancy Update[s]". Tian Tian (female giant panda) Tian Tian (, meaning "Sweetie") is a female panda born on 24 August 2003 at the Beijing Zoo from mother Niu Niu and father Ying Ying, and currently resident at Edinburgh
Tian "shangdi" and rarely used "tian" to Zhou bronzes and texts that used "tian" more frequently than its synonym "shangdi". First, Creel analyzes all the "tian" and "di" occurrences meaning "god; gods" in Western Zhou era Chinese classic texts and bronze inscriptions. The "Yi Jing" "Classic of Changes" has 2 "tian" and 1 "di"; the "Shi Jing" "Classic of Poetry" has 140 "tian" and 43 "di" or "shangdi"; and the authentic portions of the "Shu Jing" "Classic of Documents" have 116 "tian" and 25 "di" or "shangdi". His corpus of authenticated Western Zhou bronzes (1970:464–75) mention "tian" 91 times and "di"