Chinese Zodiac

The Monkey   猴

The monkey is ninth on the Chinese Zodiac. Some of the monkey's characteristics are inventor, motivator, improviser, quick-witted, inquistive, flexible, innovative, problem solver, self-assured, sociable, artistic, polite, dignified, competitive, objective, factual, intellectual. The monkey can also be egotistic, vain, arrogant, selfish, reckless, snobbish, deceptive, manipulative, cunning, jealous, and suspicious.

Even though you may be born in the year of the monkey, you may not have these characteristics. These characteristics are based on the monkey. In the story of the great race, the monkey was a problem solver when there was long grass in front of the finish line, so the goat and the monkey helped pull the grass out, so that it would be an easy path to the finish line.

Here are some of the years of the monkey:  If you are born in any of these years, you are a monkey.

1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016, 2028, 2040
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