What is the Chinese Zodiac sign of the rat?

Window Flower Cutting Auspicious Rat refers to the Chinese zodiac sign Zi Rat. Zi rat, one of the twelve zodiac signs, the first of the earth's branches. The rat is small and delicate, agile and flexible, and the rat is the most courageous and active at the time of the child. [1][2]

There are three main reasons why the rat is at the top of the Chinese Zodiac list: one is the arrangement of the zodiac signs in folklore stories. Second, ancient Chinese scholars from the ancient day and night twelve hours of the perspective of the interpretation of the earth's branches and Xiao beasts of the relationship between the pairing. Third, according to the Chinese people believe in the concept of yin and yang, the twelve animals are divided into yin and yang, the yin and yang of the animal is according to the animal's toes of the parity of the ranking. Animals before and after the left and right toe number is generally the same, and the rat alone is the front foot four, after the foot five, odd and even the same body, things are rare, of course, ranked first. [