Perturbed, she convinced her husband to delay their plans to conceive. They now hope to have a baby in 2016 – the Year of the Monkey, according to the Chinese lunar calendar.
“I’m just superstitious,” she told CNN.
One of 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac, the sheep gets a bad rap.
Many people believe that sheep babies end up with characteristics associated with their birth signs — docile and destined to be followers, not leaders.
According to one common folk saying, only one in 10 people born in the Year of the Sheep find happiness.
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It will be her benmingnian — her year in the twelve-year cycle that in Chinese tradition is often thought to bring challenges and change.
It’s when she will graduate from college and enter the real world, as she puts it.
She is both anxious and excited about how things will unfold but Zhang is confident that whatever happens, it will have little to do with her zodiac sign.
“I think my fate is under my control,” she says.
