{"id":6832,"date":"2020-01-24T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T22:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=6832"},"modified":"2023-08-08T11:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T01:02:33","slug":"year-of-the-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/year-of-the-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"2020: Year of the Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/colin-mackerras\/\">COLIN MACKERRAS<\/a>  |  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year the Chinese New Year falls on 25 January, somewhat earlier than usual. This time it\u2019s the year of the rat, which is the first of the twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legend has it that the Jade Emperor got the animals to\nrace to see in what order they would get to his party. The race included a\nriver. The rat asked the ox, who could swim, for permission to sit on his back.\nThe ox agreed. However, the rat did not repay this generosity with thanks. On\nreaching the dry, the rat leapt ahead and won the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe this shows that rats are a bit mean. Certainly, for the Chinese, people born in the year of the rat are careful with their money, and often successful in business. It is said that the rat likes to steal food, so the year of the rat is associated with superfluity and good harvests. Not such a bad thing and a nice interpretation of the results of stealing! Rats are also associated with fertility, because they breed very fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chinese word for rat is <em>laoshu<\/em>\u8001\u9f20 so the \u201cyear of the rat\u201d is <em>shunian <\/em>\u9f20\u5e74.&nbsp;What about translating it \u201cyear of the mouse\u201d, which would be just as accurate? In Anglophone countries, mice are generally less unpopular than rats. But from what I\u2019ve seen, most of the time \u201cyear of the rat\u201d it is, <em>not<\/em> \u201cyear of the mouse\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the West, we often associate the rat with the Black\nDeath of the mid-14<sup>th<\/sup> century, the plague epidemic that killed a\nsizable proportion of Europe\u2019s population, some estimates going as high as half.\nRats have generally copped the blame for the epidemic, among the worst,\npossibly <em>the<\/em> worst in history. Didn\u2019t\nthey transmit the disease to humans? But perhaps rats were not to blame.\nPerhaps they were among the victims of a dreadful flea or louse, not the\nculprit. And latest research suggests that another rodent, not the rat, was the\nmain transmitter. Still, the image of the omnivorous dirty rat swimming in the\nsewers and spreading filth and disease is hard to erase. Call somebody a \u201crat\u201d\nand I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll like it too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actually, China has had its share of epidemics,\nincluding of the plague, and rats aren\u2019t greatly admired. But they don\u2019t seem\nto be plagued with the disgust there that the Western image inflicts on them\n(pun intentional). In China they are given credit for wit, flexibility, and\nvitality. They think quickly, are clever and hard-working. They are alert and\nspirited. In other words, they are not without some important strengths. Areas\nwhere they often excel include art, writing, business, teaching and leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s apply that to\nhistory. Here are five famous people born in a year of the rat, listed in\nchronological order: the Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu (712-770), William Shakespeare\n(1564-1616), George Washington (1732-1799), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)\nand Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (b. 1984). The fit isn\u2019t bad. Along with his\ncontemporary Li Bai, Du Fu is the greatest, certainly most famous, poet in\nChinese history, and I don\u2019t need to say more about William Shakespeare. He and\nDu Fu certainly excelled in writing. And Washington still has a very good\nreputation as a leader, while Mozart is sometimes considered the greatest\nmusical genius of all time. Not sure about Prince Harry yet, but perhaps he\u2019ll\nshow some of the necessary rat features by the time we can judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So let\u2019s combine with the five elements, as they are\nin traditional Chinese culture, metal, water, wood, fire and earth. 2020 is the\nyear of the metal-rat. People from that kind of year are said to be sensitive,\nself-assertive and persuasive. Maybe that makes them good leaders!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the year of the rat marks a new beginning, because the rat won the race to the Jade Emperor\u2019s party. I hope 2020 also marks a new and better beginning compared with 2019. I also hope all readers can take advantage of the new beginning in contribution, thrift, wealth, brilliance and persuasiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author label wp-block-paragraph\"> AUTHOR <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Colin Mackerras&nbsp;AO FAHA<\/strong>&nbsp;is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Business Strategy and Innovation and the Griffith Asia Institute. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLIN MACKERRAS | This year the Chinese New Year falls on 25 January, somewhat earlier than usual. 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