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The Rat or Mouse ( 鼠) is the first of the repeating 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac, constituting part of the Chinese calendar system (with similar systems in use elsewhere). The Year of the Rat in standard Chinese is Chinese: 鼠年; pinyin: shǔnián. The rat is associated with the first branch of the Earthly ...
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The Rat or Mouse is the first of the repeating 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac, constituting part of the Chinese calendar system. The Year of the Rat in standard Chinese is Chinese: 鼠年; pinyin: shǔnián. The rat is associated with the first branch of the Earthly Branch symbol 子 (zǐ), which starts a repeating cycle of twelve years. The Chinese word shǔ ...
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Due to his extreme unpredictability, slyness, shadiness, and tendency to test anyone's patience and temper, he is disliked by all of the Zodiacs and many Hunters in the Association, even more than Ging. Even Morel states that he would rather die than vote for a slew rat-like
Wood Rat 23 January 1816: 16 January 1817: Fire Rat 14 February 1828: 3 January 1829: Earth Rat 2 February 1840: 22 January 1841: Metal Rat 20 February 1852: 3 February 1853: Water Rat 8 February 1864: 26 January 1865: Wood Rat 26 January 1876: 12 February 1877: Fire Rat 12 February 1888: 30 January 1889: Earth Rat 31 January 1900: 18 February ...
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These associations do not draw, per se, from any biological or behavioral trait of the rat, but possibly from the association of rats (and fleas) with the 14th-century medieval plague called the Black Death. Rats are seen as vicious, unclean, parasitic animals that steal food and spread disease.
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Elements of the myth changed as it spread throughout Asia. For example, the sheep is occasionally replaced by a goat. Unlike the Western zodiac’s 12-month cycle, the basic Chinese zodiac goes through a 12-year cycle of animals—the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig—with the animal changing ...
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