The tiger embodies courage and bravery, so the new year could symbolize resilience and strength — even in times of struggle, scholar Jonathan H.X. Lee says.
For those who celebrate Lunar New Year, which officially begins on the first day of February, the occasion could mark a pivot toward refreshingly good change.
“Collectively we have been living in the shadows of a great evil, the pandemic,” Lee said. “And I think 2022, the Year of the Tiger, will be a year when there will be movement towards driving out that evil.” Lee explained that the tiger — which is tied to the years 2010, 1998 and 1986, among others — has long held powerful significance in Chinese culture, where the zodiac tradition originated. In Chinese mythology, Lee said, the tiger is called upon by the Jade Emperor, the ruler of heaven, to exorcise demons. The purging of evil can be applied societally, for example, symbolizing the relatively positive shift from pandemic to endemic, Lee said.
“For this year, what better mascot can we have than a tiger in terms of showing courage and ferocity and fierceness in combating anti-Asian hate?” Lee said. “The tiger in and of itself can be a great mascot for fighting back or for stopping the violence, because that’s what the tiger did. There were demons on Earth that were violent and causing destruction, causing a lot of harm, and the Jade Emperor called on the tiger to go down and defeat them. And he did.
“There’s a whole history of the term, ‘superstitious,’ and how, really, that is responsible for the Cultural Revolution in China and the destruction of Chinese cultural heritage,” Lee said. “That’s why during the Cultural Revolution you had the destruction of all the Chinese temples, to try to make Chinese people less ‘superstitious’ or, by extension, less religious. But that idea is really a Western kind of application into China that has a really horrible impact.
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