Chinese Zodiac

The Rat   

The rat is on the top of the Chinese Zodiac. Some of the rat's characteristics are forthright, tenacious, intense, meticulous, charismatic, sensitive, intellectual, industrious, charming, eloquent, sociable, artistic, and shrewd. Also the rat can also be manipulative, vindictive, self-destructive, envious, mendacious (which also means deceptive, which means that they can deceive you), venal (which means that they do stuff for their own advantage), obstinate, critical, over-ambitious, ruthless, intolerant, and scheming.

Even though you may have been born on the year of the rat, that doesn't mean that you have these characteristics. These characteristics are based on the actual characteristics of a rat. It also goes along with the story of the great race because the rat betrayed it's friendship with the cat to win the race, it also deceived the cat and the ox letting them think that they were both in the plan, but the rat is also smart to come up with that plan.

Here are some of the years of the rat:  If you are born in these years, you are considered a rat.
1900, 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020, 2032 
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