The Year of the Metal Rat is a “double spring” year. How does “double spring” occur in the Year of the Metal Rat? The Chinese lunisolar calendar is based on the cycles of the sun and moon.

2020: A year of the Rat will start on January 25th. Year of the Pig. ... Pig is the twelfth in the 12-year cycle of Chinese zodiac sign. The Years of the Pig include 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959 ...

This is because the Rat year signifies the Fire in the embryo stage, after the Pig year which represented the termination of Fire, he said. His forecast also took into consideration that 2019 ...