It's the animal of the Chinese year beginning in 2008
[DOC] [TLE] Chinese Zodiac Year of the Rat: Fortune 2016 & 2017, Personality [PAR] Rat year (1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020) is the 1st Chinese ... its 
way into derogatory languages, it ranks first on the Chinese zodiac signs.