“The solution to counter these problems is to wear red things,” Wechsler said. People who were born under the sign of the rat should brace for a year of hardship. In fact, your birth year is considered ominous. I had hoped that my backyard visit by the neighborhood rat at the beginning of the year would be a portentous sign, an astrological gesture for a lucky year ahead. Obviously something you would never see on the street.” “You’re going to see a lot of red decorations in a form of a cute rat,” Wechsler said. Actual rats are as reviled in China as they are everywhere else. The astrological qualities of rats are only associated with the symbol and the people born under it. The combination of animals and elements repeats every 60 years. 2020 is the metal rat 2008 was the earth rat 1996 was the fire rat etc. The rat comes around every 12 years in the Chinese calendar, each time associated with a cycle of five elements. “A lot of famous writers are rats,” said Haibin Wechsler, a Chinese cultural educator at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Rats are now symbols of intelligence and they’re cunning, clever tricksters. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor
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