Start Date	End Date	Associated Element	Heavenly Branch
02/05/1924	01/23/1925	Yang Wood	Jia Zi
01/24/1936	02/10/1937	Yang Fire	Bing Zi
02/10/1948	01/28/1949	Yang Earth	Wu Zi
01/28/1960	02/14/1961	Yang Metal	Geng Zi
02/15/1972	02/02/1973	Yang Water	Ren Zi
02/02/1984	02/19/1985	Yang Wood	Jia Zi
02/19/1996	02/06/1997	Yang Fire	Bing Zi
02/06/2008	01/25/2009	Yang Earth	Wu Zi
01/25/2020	02/11/2021	Yang Metal	Geng Zi

It’s a fate that rat and human beings are greatly related with each other. They often eat our food and have the ability to survive at anywhere without picky about food. Because of this, the people born in the year of the Rat are outgoing, optimistic and highly adaptable in any environment. They are not the people who haggle over every ounce but stay at ease under all circumstances. So, they are easy to be liked and helped by others.
 
The Rat people are endowed with the power of acute observation, anticipation, and visionary power. You can get a validation from an old saying among the boatmen – ‘Rats leave (or desert or forsake) a sinking ship’ which means the rat can aware that the ship will be wrecked and run away in advance. Also, for a factory, once there are rats run out one after another, it predicts the fire damage is coming soon. Because of the ability, the rat people are usually good at some creativity works. They can be artistic creators, inventors, innovators etc. However, they should not rely on this power to deal with things completely. Think hard and ask for the opinions from others are very important. Please click for more about Rat Personality Traits.

Rat People's Personality by Five Elements
Click the following links to get personalities and horoscope for the five types of Rat.  
→ Wood Rat: 1984 (Feb. 02, 1984 - Feb. 19, 1985)   
→ Water Rat: 1972 (Feb. 15, 1972 - Feb. 02, 1973)
→ Metal Rat: 1960 (Jan. 28, 1960 - Feb. 14, 1961)
→ Earth Rat: 1948 (Feb. 10, 1948 - Jan. 28, 1949) or 2008 (Feb. 06, 2008 - Jan. 25, 2009)
→ Fire Rat: 1936 (Jan. 24, 1936 - Feb. 10, 1937) or 1996 (Feb.19, 1996 - Feb. 06, 1997)

Rat People's Personality by Blood Types
→ Rat People with Blood Type O
→ Rat People with Blood Type A
→ Rat People with Blood Type B
→ Rat People with Blood Type AB

Each Chinese zodiac sign has compatible or incompatible signs according to their characteristics’ compatibility. If your find your signs are compatible, you could get along well in most cases. In opposite, you need to do more effort to be together harmoniously.

Following are the compatibility chart of the Rat with other signs. → more about Rat Compatibility.

Boy's Birthday

Girl's Birthday

 Zodiac Match

Rat's Fate by Birth Time
The birth time of people plays a very important role in terms of whether the destiny is auspicious or not. People under the Rat sign born in different time periods will have different characters and fate. Those who were born and will be born between 05:00AM - 07:00AM and 05:00PM - 07:00PM are the most auspicious.

Rat's Fate by Birth Date
Best Birth Dates: The Rats born in the 4th, 9th, 13th, 25th or the 30th day in Chinese lunar calendar are usually blessed with good luck and fortune during the whole life.

Rat's Fate by Birth Month
Best Birth Months: Birth months that could bring good luck to the Rat people are January, May, July, August and Septmber.
January: The Rat people born in January usually have a generous ancestral estate, so they would have no worry about food and clothes for the entire life. 
May: Grain in Ear which is one of the Chinese 24 Solar Terms usually falls on May of Chinese lunar calendar. It is the time that wheat grows ripe and a busy farming season begins. So, the Rat people born in May are usually work hard, perseveringly and can lead a glorious life.
July: The autumn season which is a harvest season usually begins in July. So, the Rat people born in July mostly could live comfortably without any worry about food and clothing.  
August: The Rat born in August could mostly get a high position and great wealth. They can live rich for the whole life. 
September: The Rat with the birth month of September could spend the whole life peacefully, happily and healthily.

Note: The dates and months here is based on the Chinese lunar calendar. Please use the Gregorian-Chinese Calendar Converter tool on Chinese calendar page to find your lunar birth date and month.

The people under the Rat sign are fit to those kinds of creative jobs such as artists, editors and writers. Also, the Rat people are best suited to technical jobs such as gardeners and craftsmen. Warmhearted and uninhibited, the Rats are fond of charitable causes. As long as there is any jobs related to charity, you can see the Rat people working there wholeheartedly. However, the Rats are not good at political works and actual participation in the work. To be exactly, they should avoid doing party affairs, to be a political official, police officer, military officer and other management class jobs.
→ Ideal Jobs and Work Partners for Rat

When selecting a Chinese name for the people born in the year of Rat, there are some dos and don’ts you need to know which are based on the characters of the Rat, zodiac compatibility and Chinese five element theories. Let's take a look at what are good and auspicious names for the male and female Rats.
 → Auspicious Chinese Names for the Rat People

Ben Affleck, Charlotte Bronte, Clark Gable, George Bush Sr., George Washington, John F. Kennedy Jr., John McCain, Marlon Brando, Prince Charles, Richard Nixon, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Penn, Shaquille O'Neal, William Shakespeare, Wayne Gretzky, Wilt Chamberlain, Yves St Laurent.

Chinese Celebrities: Du Fu (a famous Chinese poet in the Tang Dynasty), Zhuangzi (an influential Chinese Taoist philosopher in the Warring States Period)