What year is this year?

This year is the Year of the Rat, which is the first year of the China Zodiac. This is also a cultural custom. Zodiac years are: 2044, 2032, 2020, 2008, 1996, 1984, 1972, 1960, 1948, 65438. Among China's numerous two-part allegorical sayings, some are related to mice, such as:

The mouse chews the ball-the guest (chews) is angry. The mouse can't keep the food overnight-delicious (metaphor for greed and laziness)

The mouse climbed up the horizontal bar-the extreme mouse climbed up the incense burner-and was flatly rejected.

A mouse meets a cat-dare not think (loudly) that a mouse rides on a cat-how dare you.

The mouse married his wife-the mouse slept in the cat's nest-and took a bite of meat.

The mouse sleeps in the cat's nest-giving the mouse a bite of meat to shave the cat-trying to please.