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ISOSU: China 2008: The year of the rat
ISOSU
Issue date: 2/12/08 Section: Forum
Chinese New Year is the most important festivity for the Chinese people. It is also called the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year.
Every year is assigned an animal's name: the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
A Chinese legend says that these 12 animals had a race. The first year was named after the rat, the winner.
The other 11 years were named after the order in which the animals finished in the race.
The clever rat jumped onto the ox's back and over the ox's head to arrive first.
The Chinese believe a person born in the year of the rat share some of the same characteristics. They are optimistic, cheerful, easy to get along with, do not fall into low spirits no matter how hard the circumstances, tend to love money and will fight for their lives.
At the same time, they are sensitive like a rat and have good intuition and imagination, but they are not good at logically drawing their own conclusions. Viewed from appearances, people born in the year of the rat are reticent persons, but actually they are not.
Sometimes you may find a person born in the year of the rat to be critical, complaining and fault finding. But generally speaking, people born in the year of the rat are easy to get along with. You can find them in circles of close friends and they are usually very friendly. These people treasure their relationships with friends and relatives.
They connect their lives closely to those of others. This is because once they like somebody, they can't bear to leave them.
A woman born in the year of the rat is usually surprisingly frugal. She buys second-hand goods, splits one meal into several and cuts down on expenses.
Of course, if there is a real need for money, she will not be stingy. Sometimes, people born in the year of the rat live in groups.
They don't care if there is another mouth to feed. They will let friends or relatives live in their homes, but they can always find something for them to do.
Every year is assigned an animal's name: the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
A Chinese legend says that these 12 animals had a race. The first year was named after the rat, the winner.
The other 11 years were named after the order in which the animals finished in the race.
The clever rat jumped onto the ox's back and over the ox's head to arrive first.
The Chinese believe a person born in the year of the rat share some of the same characteristics. They are optimistic, cheerful, easy to get along with, do not fall into low spirits no matter how hard the circumstances, tend to love money and will fight for their lives.
At the same time, they are sensitive like a rat and have good intuition and imagination, but they are not good at logically drawing their own conclusions. Viewed from appearances, people born in the year of the rat are reticent persons, but actually they are not.
Sometimes you may find a person born in the year of the rat to be critical, complaining and fault finding. But generally speaking, people born in the year of the rat are easy to get along with. You can find them in circles of close friends and they are usually very friendly. These people treasure their relationships with friends and relatives.
They connect their lives closely to those of others. This is because once they like somebody, they can't bear to leave them.
A woman born in the year of the rat is usually surprisingly frugal. She buys second-hand goods, splits one meal into several and cuts down on expenses.
Of course, if there is a real need for money, she will not be stingy. Sometimes, people born in the year of the rat live in groups.
They don't care if there is another mouth to feed. They will let friends or relatives live in their homes, but they can always find something for them to do.
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