Tian Tian (female giant panda) 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 Zoo, Scotland. She arrived in Edinburgh in December 2011 together with a male panda named Yáng Guāng (, meaning "sunshine"). Currently they are the only two pandas in the United Kingdom. They are on a 10-year loan from the Bifengxia Breeding Centre in China at a cost of £640,000 per year. When in China Tian Tian, successfully gave birth to twins on 7 August
Tian Jun of Yue Prefecture (越州) — was summarily rejected by Qian, so he put Hang's inner city under siege. Meanwhile, Qian, at Gu's suggestion, sent Gu and his son Qian Chuanliao (錢傳璙) to Huainan to seek Yang's help in forcing Tian to withdraw, arguing to Yang that if Tian took over Zhenhai, his strength would be so much increased that he would become a threat to Yang. Yang, after retaining Qian Chuanliao as a hostage (and giving a daughter to Qian Chuanliao in marriage), agreed. He sent orders to Tian to withdraw, under the threat that if Tian did not, he