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The Chinese Year of the Rat starts on February 7, 2008 and this was the year of the Earth Rat.

  HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 

Happy Chinese New Year or Kung Hei Fatt Choy to everyone.

The Chinese Year of the Rat starts on February 7, 2008 and this is the year of the Earth Rat.

Rat people are described as charming and attractive and always surrounded by friends and admirers.

Known as perfectionists, they never want to lose face.

Rat people have vivid imaginations and are known for creating extraordinarily magic moments in time.

Some say the sensitive Rats have the gift of insight and clairvoyance.

Rats love being leaders and pacesetters and usually enjoy extraordinary success in life.

They have a strong work ethic and discipline and think nothing of putting in long hours to achieve their goals.

But they also enjoy the fruits of their labour and life is filled with weekend escapades and membership to the Unofficial Adventurers’ Club, which requires its members to live life to the fullest.

Famous Rats include scientist Galileo, US presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, composers Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Johann Strauss, painters Monet and Toulouse Lautrec, sculptor Rodin, writers Emile Zola, Charlotte Bronte, Shakespeare, Shelley and Leo Tolstoy and adventurer Lawrence of Arabia.

Show biz Rats are Marlon Brando, Burt Reynolds, Ursula Andress, Louis Armstrong, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Kathleen Battle and Engelbert Humperdinck.

Prince Charles is an Earth Rat, born in 1948.

You are a Rat if you were born in 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996 and 2008.

Celebrate the Year of the Rat with these scrumptious recipes.

Chinese New Year is all about enjoying good food and good company, so click on these recipes and cook up a storm!