Today marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Pig, and children born under this sign are thought to be especially lucky, not to mention polite,
honest, hardworking and loyal. And this Pig year is thought to be
especially extra-specially lucky, being not just a Pig Year but a "Golden Pig Year",
which comes around only about every 60 years and apparently has much of
China in an uproar, with maternity rooms in hospitals being booked
solid for months and pre-planning already begun years hence for
preschools.
Yes, there's still time to conceive a baby for this
super-duper Pig Year, but you should also know the flip side of all
this luck says that the rest of us are going to be suffering through
fires, epidemics, and all manner of disasters and epidemics. Yay. And pass the pork chops.
