On February 18 a new year began in China, lunar year 4705, which in addition to bringing fortune and happiness is expected to also bring many piglets.
The Chinese are already preparing to face the wave of births that will be this yearWell, according to Chinese beliefs, babies born during this year will have a happy and wealthy life.
Therefore, young couples who are not yet waiting for their offspring seek to get pregnant as soon as possible so that their baby is born under the good influences of the pig.
To this is added that it is the year of the fire pig, the most powerful of the elements, a combination that only occurs once every 60 years.
But only couples who still do not have offspring can bring a baby to the world due to the policy maintained in China of not allowing families to have more than one child.
Although, as is happening, some well-off families will prefer to pay the fine imposed on them by a second child in exchange for having a lucky baby born the year of the pig at home.
Condom manufacturers do not expect it to be a good year of sales in China, but baby goods stores and babysitting services as a well-known company in Shanghai that takes care of the baby during the first months, which already has reservations up to July.
With this it is more than clear that being a pig in Chinese culture is not an insult, but a blessing.
