Chapter 1 of 6 · The Gateway
RAT
鼠
·
子
The Rat belongs to Zi 子, the first of the Twelve Earthly Branches. In Wang Chong's Lun Heng, Zi is explicitly associated with Water and with the Rat. This gives the Rat a genuine place inside an old Chinese calendrical and cosmological framework rather than merely a modern personality horoscope.
Branch:
Zi
子
Element:
Water
水
Polarity:
Yang
Position:
1 of 12
Traditional record, cultural interpretation and modern reflection
are intentionally separated.