Comments on: Fortune in the Rat Year

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:55:34 +0000

Thanks son.I am very happy that you could come here and read us!

I really enjoy here with these amart and far-sighted young people, who will be the big support of our country!

By: Meng

Meng — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:11:50 +0000

Hi, Mum. I am very proud of you that you are getting along with a group of talented genius young friends here! I do like the forum in terms of its content and atmosphere! I am looking forward to more interesting stories!! :)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:26:26 +0000

Elliott Ng,
thank you for your comments and your interests. I will write something later about how Chinese people had their Chinese New Year's day in the past disaster 10 years....

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:20:42 +0000

I know the difference between rat and mouse. However, I wanted to match the content of my post, and so I titled my post as "Mouse Year". Now, I changed it. hehe.

By: jichuan

jichuan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:27:17 +0000

ya, excellent.

In one word, rat is bigger and live in the field, while mouse is smaller and live in the house.

Actually, rat is much more clean than mouse. Maybe that's why people say "Year of Rat", not "Year of Mouse". Just kidding. :)

By: Gijo

Gijo — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:22:54 +0000

Rat--Any of various long-tailed rodents resembling mice but larger, especially one of the genusRattus.
Mouse--Any of numerous small rodents of the families Muridae and Cricetidae, such as the common house mouse(Mus musculus), characteristically having a pointed snout, small, rounded ears, and a long, naked or almost hairless tail.

I killed dozens of rats for our experiment in 2006. I feel awful. Rats are doctor's best friend...I don't want to kill any of them, if possible.

Anyway, the Rat Year has come and many friends of mine come across their second Benmingnian (or is there a proper word for this?).
Wish them good luck, especially aw here, hehe : )

By: jichuan

jichuan — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:19:12 +0000

Dose anybody know the difference between mouse and rat?
I will release the answer tomorrow.

By: Elliott Ng

Elliott Ng — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:54:45 +0000

Lisa, thanks for sharing this story. Maybe back then, mice were carriers of disease so it was important to get rid of them. But I admire your spirit of listening and respecting Nature!

I have heard that during the period of the Cultural Revolution and even before, many traditional Chinese ideas were considered reactionary and feudal. Is that true for the idea of the Chinese zodiac (the different animals for the different years)? Did people have firecrackers, give out hong bao, eat special food, go to their home town to see their family? Or did all of this stop for 10+ years?

If it is not considered "harmonious" to discuss such topics, then forgive me for asking the question! I would not want to trigger any kind of "harmonization" here. :)

By: Chrisding

Chrisding — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:16:37 +0000

Good luck to Ifgogo and Best wishes to you all. Happy Chinese new year!

By: lisa

lisa — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:13:58 +0000

I of course know your born year and so, this post is also my good wish to you:

Good luck and doing everthing smoothly in Rat Year 2008!

BTW, don't forget to wear a red belt, lol