Chinese New Year and the Year of The Rat

Flag of Singapore

You might have noticed Google's sign depicting the rat. This is the Chinese/Asian year of the rat. 

The rat has good and bad qualities. The good quality is that the rat is ambitious. 

Sign in Gardens By The Bay, Singapore. 2016

Photo: Marcin Konsek / Wikimedia Commons

Rat - Chinese zodiac sign. Inside Flower Dome

Rat Attribute wisdom. Characteristic:
Intelligent, adaptable, quick-witted, charming, artistic, sociable.
Year of birth: 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1964, 1996, 2008, 2020.

In the west we tend to think of real rats as bearers of disease such as the plague and Weil's disease. But a symbolic rat, is a much friendlier creature, like a soft toy depicting a teddy bear, a symbolic pig, or a symbolic dinosaur.

Stone monument with a carving of a mouse, at Mount Hôrai-ji Buddhist Temple, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Yanajin33 - Own work

Useful Websites
singaporeair.com
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Singapore

About The Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

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