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 those with knowledge, and such individuals as Yang Kui (楊夔), Kang Peng (康軿), Xiahou Shu (夏侯淑), Yin Wengui (殷文圭), and Wang Xiyu (王希羽) became his guests. Yin, in particular, had an excellent reputation, and had been invited by both Qian Liu and the major warlord Zhu Quanzhong the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit (宣武, headquartered in modern Kaifeng, Henan) to join them, but had refused them both. Tian took a different tack, by finding a country estate and welcoming Yin's mother to the estate to live, treating her as an aunt, so Yin thereafter served Tian faithfully. While by this