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 would send someone else to govern Ningguo. Tian, after extracting a cash payment from Qian and forcing Qian to surrender a son (Qian Chuanguan) as a hostage (with Tian giving a daughter to Qian Chuanguan in marriage), withdrew, taking Xu Wan and Xu Zaisi with him. It was said that after this incident, he further resented Yang for holding back on his expansion plans, which he had wanted to carry out because, at that time, he felt he had a strong army and plenty of monetary resources to finance the campaigns. Tian Jun thus considered rebelling against Yang Xingmi, and