A Clever Rat

Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people, and it is also called the Spring Festival and Lunar New Year. The exact date of the Spring Festival changes from year to year on the Western calendar. Chinese New Year takes place between January 1st and February 19th.

Evey Each year has an animal name, and the names are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram,monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. A Chinese legend says that those twelve animals had a race. In fact, the cat the is the most diligent animal in out of all of the animals, and it is the rat's best friend. But, in during the eve of the race, the rat asked the cat to drink with it, and the cat was passed out. And The rat jumped on the ox's back, and then at the end jumped over the ox's head to arrive first. The Chinese believe that the a person born in a particular year has some of the characteristics of that animal, so if you are born in the year of the rat, year, you may be clever.