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 the eight directions. The Tian are the heaven worlds and pure lands in Buddhist cosmology. Some devas are also called Tian. The number of vertical heaven layers in Taoism is different, the most common saying is the 36 Tian developed from Durenjing (度人經). In I-Kuan Tao, Tian are divided into 3 vertical worlds. "Li Tian" (理天) "heaven of truth", "Qi Tian" (氣天) "heaven of spirit" and "Xiang Tian" (象天) "heaven of matter". The semantics of "tian" developed diachronically. The "Hanyu dazidian", an historical dictionary of Chinese characters, lists 17 meanings of "tian" 天, translated below. The Chinese philosopher Feng Youlan