Why don't most hotels have room 420?

Why don't most hotels have room 420? You may not believe it.

Now we book hotels for travel or business trips, and the hotel industry has become one of the more promising industries, so there are still many people staying in hotels. However, if someone often stays in a hotel, they will find that if the hotel has a fourth floor, there is absolutely no room 420. Then why?

Generally speaking, people will say that the beginning of this four is unlucky. But, think about it, why are there rooms 40 1 and 4 19 in the hotel? As long as the room is on the fourth floor, don't they all start with four? So, in fact, the real reason for this problem is not this.

Moreover, there is a widespread saying that four is not pleasant to listen to in China, but in fact, you can't find forty or twenty rooms in foreign hotels. Although four is taboo in China, in the eyes of most people, there is not much difference between a room like four twenty and room four zero one. Because, after all, such a room is on the fourth floor, and it is normal for the door to have a house number with a beginning of four. Most people in China are still afraid of homophones, such as "Si Si Si".

Then the taboo about Room 420 abroad is actually related to smoking marijuana. Some people find it incredible. What does this have to do with marijuana?

This is about to talk about the incident of a group of high school students smoking marijuana in front of the school statue in the United States 197 1. At that time, when this group of high school students were smoking marijuana at school, it was exactly 4: 20 pm. This group of high school students who are not sensible meet here and do irregular things like smoking marijuana together.

If this were China, such a child would be expelled if he did such a thing. In the United States, although their country is relatively open, this kind of thing happens to high school students, and the situation is still quite serious. So this incident has also caused a certain degree of sensation in the United States. In this way, with the expansion of the incident, April 20 was designated as World Marijuana Day.

As we all know, foreigners like to take some special things as souvenirs. Therefore, Room 420 of the hotel has become a "holy land" for them to smoke marijuana. The way they commemorate it is to take off the number of Room 420 of the hotel. Therefore, in order to avoid the phenomenon that the house number was taken away, and to prevent marijuana lovers from gathering in Room 420 to smoke marijuana, the hotel gradually canceled Room 420.

With the constant evolution and transmission of habits, the style of foreign hotels has also spread to China, so as long as it is on the fourth floor, there is generally no room 420 in domestic and foreign hotels.