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 or "shangdi" only 4 times. Second, Creel contrasts the disparity between 175 occurrences of "di" or "shangdi" on Shang era oracle inscriptions with "at least" 26 occurrences of "tian". Upon examining these 26 oracle scripts that scholars (like Guo Moruo) have identified as "tian" 天 "heaven; god" (1970:494–5), he rules out 8 cases in fragments where the contextual meaning is unclear. Of the remaining 18, Creel interprets 11 cases as graphic variants for "da" "great; large; big" (e.g., "tian i shang" 天邑商 for "da i shang" 大邑商 "great settlement Shang"), 3 as a place name, and 4 cases of oracles