{"id":4178,"date":"2026-09-07T10:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/rat-dragon-compatibility\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:37:23","slug":"compatibilite-entre-le-rat-et-le-dragon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/rat-dragon-compatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatibilit\u00e9 entre le Rat et le Dragon : deux des trois harmonies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"tzl-page\">\n  <style>\n\/* The Zodiac Lore \u2014 Style B brand-unified *\/\n.tzl-page{\n  --bg:#fff;--ink:#0a0a0a;--soft:#3a3a3a;--grey:#5c5c5c;--muted:#9a9a9a;--line:#e6e6e6;\n  --accent:#e1391b;--accent-dark:#b02a12;\n  --sans:\"Archivo\",Arial,sans-serif;--mono:\"Spline Sans Mono\",ui-monospace,monospace;\n  --zh:\"Noto Sans SC\",\"PingFang SC\",\"Microsoft YaHei\",sans-serif;\n  max-width:1040px;margin:0 auto;color:var(--ink);background:var(--bg);\n  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its four trios, known by their branch names as \u7533\u5b50\u8fb0. <strong>Rat and Dragon are named together in that real classical rule.<\/strong> That much is a direct, sourced connection \u2014 not folk guesswork. The classical text that names the trio also states a condition worth knowing before treating this as a finished match: the full three-way link is described as needing all three animals present, and Monkey is missing from a Rat-Dragon pair alone. That does not make the two signs unrelated, though: in later and widely used BaZi terminology, this two-animal case (\u5b50\u8fb0) is commonly treated as a &#8220;half-combination&#8221; (\u534a\u5408) \u2014 a real but weaker version of the trio, specifically covering its &#8220;peak&#8221; and &#8220;storage&#8221; phases. It is weaker and structurally different from the full \u7533\u5b50\u8fb0 combination, but it is still a recognized relationship, not nothing.<\/p>\n      <p>What follows is what the classical source actually says about how and why this trio forms, what&#8217;s left of that connection between just Rat and Dragon, and how it compares with the six other branch-relationship schemes checked on this page.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"quick-answer\">\n      <h2>One real trio, six clean misses<\/h2>\n      <p>In traditional Chinese calendrical systems, each zodiac animal also corresponds to one of twelve Earthly Branches \u2014 a set of twelve symbolic signs used in the traditional calendar and in BaZi, a Chinese birth-chart system built from a person&#8217;s year, month, day, and hour of birth. Here, words such as &#8220;harmony,&#8221; &#8220;punishment,&#8221; and &#8220;break&#8221; are technical names for branch relationships, not literal predictions that a couple will be harmonious, punished, or destined to break up. Chinese zodiac tradition sorts the twelve animal signs into several overlapping systems of pairs and trios built on these branches \u2014 some marking signs traditionally seen as an easy match, others marking signs traditionally seen as clashing. This page checks Rat and Dragon against seven of these Earthly Branch relationship schemes: Three Harmonies, Three Meetings, Six Harmonies, Six Conflicts, Six Harms, Mutual Punishments, and Mutual Breaks.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n        <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n          <thead>\n            <tr>\n              <th>Branch relationship scheme<\/th>\n              <th>Names Rat + Dragon?<\/th>\n              <th>Where each sign actually sits<\/th>\n            <\/tr>\n          <\/thead>\n          <tbody>\n            <tr><td>Three Harmonies (\u4e09\u5408)<\/td><td><strong>Half-combination; full trio incomplete<\/strong><\/td><td>Rat and Dragon form \u5b50\u8fb0, commonly treated as a \u5893\u65fa\u534a\u5408\u6c34\u5c40 (peak-and-storage half-combination). Monkey is still required for the full \u7533\u5b50\u8fb0 Three Harmonies Water configuration<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Three Meetings (\u4e09\u4f1a)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Rat&#8217;s seasonal trio is \u4ea5\u5b50\u4e11 (Pig-Rat-Ox, winter); Dragon&#8217;s is \u5bc5\u536f\u8fb0 (Tiger-Rabbit-Dragon, spring)<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Harmonies (\u516d\u5408)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Rat&#8217;s partner is Ox; Dragon&#8217;s is Rooster<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Conflicts (\u516d\u51b2)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Rat clashes with Horse; Dragon clashes with Dog<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Harms (\u516d\u5bb3)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Rat&#8217;s harm partner is Goat (\u5b50\u672a\u76f8\u5bb3); Dragon&#8217;s is Rabbit (\u536f\u8fb0\u76f8\u5bb3)<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Mutual Punishments (\u76f8\u5211)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Rat sits in the Rat\u2013Rabbit pair (\u5b50\u536f\u76f8\u5211); Dragon is one of four self-punishing branches, which triggers only against a second Dragon<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Mutual Breaks (\u76f8\u7834)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Rat&#8217;s break partner is Rooster (\u5b50\u9149\u76f8\u7834); Dragon&#8217;s is Ox (\u4e11\u8fb0\u76f8\u7834)<\/td><\/tr>\n          <\/tbody>\n        <\/table>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"tzl-note\">\n        <strong>These are the branch-relationship schemes checked on this page, not a claim that classical fate calculation has exactly seven categories and no more.<\/strong> Rat and Dragon share one real trio membership (Three Harmonies), recognized at the two-branch level as a \u5b50\u8fb0 half-combination, and miss every other named rule cleanly. The next sections cover what the full trio actually says, in the source&#8217;s own words, what the half-combination adds, and what carries over to a two-sign reading.\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"rat-in-this-pairing\">\n      <h2>Rat&#8217;s side: strategy that needs room to trust<\/h2>\n      <p>Rat opens the twelve-year cycle, and this site&#8217;s own Rat profile builds its reading around alertness, timing, and resourcefulness \u2014 a sign that reads the room before it relaxes. Dragon and Monkey are its Three Harmonies partners; Ox is its Six Harmonies match; Horse is the sign it clashes with in Six Conflicts. What the profile names as Rat&#8217;s real requirement is enough predictability to stop calculating and trust something steady, without a partner so vague that Rat starts overthinking every signal.<\/p>\n      <p>Dragon is one of Rat&#8217;s two named Three Harmonies partners \u2014 the next section covers Dragon&#8217;s own set before turning to what the trio between them actually claims.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"dragon-in-this-pairing\">\n      <h2>Dragon&#8217;s side: vision that needs room to land<\/h2>\n      <p>Four positions later sits Dragon, and its profile leans on a different cluster: presence, imagination, and momentum \u2014 a sign that needs a relationship with room for growth rather than one that keeps shrinking its scale down to something manageable. Rat and Monkey are its Three Harmonies partners; Rooster is its Six Harmonies match; Dog is the sign it clashes with in Six Conflicts. Rat is one of those two named partners, which is the direct, sourced link this pairing has \u2014 the next section covers exactly what that trio is and what it takes to complete it.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"three-harmonies-shen-zi-chen\">\n      <h2>The trio, in the source&#8217;s own logic: \u7533\u5b50\u8fb0\u6c34\u5c40<\/h2>\n      <p>Three Harmonies groups aren&#8217;t arbitrary trios. Chinese five-element theory pictures each element \u2014 Water, Wood, Fire, Metal, Earth \u2014 moving through its own repeating life cycle: born, growing toward a peak, declining, and finally going into storage before the cycle starts again. Each of the twelve animal signs is assigned to one stage of one element&#8217;s cycle, and signs sharing certain stages of the same cycle are treated as linked. The Ming-dynasty <em><a href=\"https:\/\/m.gushiwen.cn\/guwen\/bookv_e48ce85a5985.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sanming Tonghui<\/a><\/em> (\u4e09\u547d\u901a\u4f1a) explains \u7533\u5b50\u8fb0 through exactly this life cycle, for the element Water. The passage places \u7533 (Monkey) at Water&#8217;s birth stage, \u5b50 (Rat) at its flourishing stage, and \u8fb0 (Dragon) at its storage stage; it then summarizes the sequence as <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u751f\u5373\u4ea7\uff0c\u65fa\u5373\u6210\uff0c\u5e93\u5373\u6536<\/span> \u2014 birth, completion, and storage. The text reads it as a complete arc: &#8220;having birth, flourishing, and storage, the ten thousand things gain both a beginning and an end, which is the principle of nature.&#8221; On that logic, \u7533\u5b50\u8fb0 forms what the source calls a Water frame (\u6c34\u5c40) \u2014 a transformation that belongs to the trio as a unit, distinct from each branch&#8217;s own individual element (Rat&#8217;s own branch is Water, Dragon&#8217;s is Earth, Monkey&#8217;s is Metal; the combination-Water is a separate, collective effect).<\/p>\n      <p>The same passage then states the condition directly: <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u82e5\u4e09\u5b57\u7f3a\u4e00\u5219\u5316\u4e0d\u6210\u5c40\uff0c\u4e0d\u53ef\u4ee5\u4e09\u5408\u5316\u5c40\u8bba<\/span> \u2014 &#8220;if any one of the three characters is missing, the transformation does not form the combination, and it cannot be discussed as a Three Harmonies combination-transformation.&#8221; Applied here: Rat and Dragon are two of the three required branches. Monkey is the missing piece. By the source&#8217;s own wording, a Rat-Dragon pair alone is not what the text describes as a formed \u4e09\u5408 combination \u2014 it&#8217;s two-thirds of one.<\/p>\n      <p>That distinguishes the full \u4e09\u5408\u5316\u5c40 from a looser reading some modern compatibility guides give it, where any two signs from a trio are sometimes treated as an automatic &#8220;strong match&#8221; on the strength of trio membership alone. The Sanming Tonghui passage is more specific about what counts as a complete \u4e09\u5408\u5316\u5c40: the full transformation it names is a three-branch event, and it says so explicitly rather than leaving it implied.<\/p>\n      <p>That is not the end of the story for two branches alone, though. Later and widely used BaZi terminology separately classifies two-branch subsets of a Three Harmonies trio as \u534a\u5408 (half-combinations), graded by which two stages of the life cycle they connect. \u5b50\u8fb0 \u2014 Rat&#8217;s peak stage paired with Dragon&#8217;s storage stage \u2014 is classified as a \u5893\u65fa\u534a\u5408 (peak-and-storage half-combination), one of four such pairs alongside \u5348\u620c, \u9149\u4e11, and \u536f\u672a. A \u5893\u65fa\u534a\u5408 like this one is treated as weaker than the complete three-branch trio and also weaker than a \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408 (birth-and-peak half-combination, such as \u7533\u5b50 in the same Water group) \u2014 but it is still a recognized category in its own right, not an informal shortcut. So the accurate layering is: \u7533\u5b50\u8fb0 complete forms the full three-branch Water configuration; \u7533\u5b50 alone forms the stronger \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408\u6c34\u5c40; \u5b50\u8fb0 alone forms the weaker \u5893\u65fa\u534a\u5408\u6c34\u5c40 that applies to Rat and Dragon.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"what-this-means\">\n      <h2>What that leaves for the actual pairing<\/h2>\n      <p>Hold three facts apart rather than blending them. First: Rat and Dragon are named together in a real classical rule, and that rule explains its logic in detail \u2014 a birth-to-storage life cycle for Water, running through Monkey, Rat, and Dragon in that order. Second: the Sanming Tonghui passage that names the full trio also states, in its own words, that the complete transformation needs all three branches to form \u2014 a Rat-Dragon pair alone is not that. Third: that doesn&#8217;t leave Rat and Dragon with nothing between them \u2014 later BaZi terminology classifies \u5b50\u8fb0 on its own as a recognized \u5893\u65fa\u534a\u5408\u6c34\u5c40 (peak-and-storage half-combination), weaker than the full trio but a real, named category rather than an invented consolation prize.<\/p>\n      <p>What does carry over between the two signs on their own is each one&#8217;s individual profile. Rat&#8217;s page already describes the practical balance: Rat can help Dragon turn bold ideas into something workable, while Dragon can help Rat think past small calculations. The friction point is scale \u2014 Dragon may move too grandly for Rat&#8217;s comfort, Rat may question too carefully for Dragon&#8217;s momentum. Whether that lands as a genuine strong match or as two people talking past each other depends on whether both sides respect the other&#8217;s pace, not on the trio label by itself.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"common-mistakes\">\n      <h2>Common mistakes<\/h2>\n      <ul>\n        <li><strong>Treating any two signs from a Three Harmonies trio as an automatically strong match.<\/strong> Two members do not automatically equal the full \u4e09\u5408\u5c40 \u2014 the Sanming Tonghui names the complete combination as a three-branch event and explicitly states it does not form with one branch missing. Some two-branch subsets, including \u5b50\u8fb0, are separately classified as \u534a\u5408 (half-combinations); that is a real but distinct category, not the same thing as the complete three-branch transformation.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Assuming the Water frame (\u6c34\u5c40) means Rat and Dragon individually &#8220;are&#8221; Water.<\/strong> Rat&#8217;s own branch element is Water and Dragon&#8217;s is Earth; the Water frame is a separate, combination-level effect described for the trio as a unit, not a restatement of either sign&#8217;s own element.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Assuming the three main rules are the whole traditional system.<\/strong> They&#8217;re the three this site&#8217;s other compatibility pages use as the primary reference. Three Meetings, Six Harms, Mutual Punishments, and Mutual Breaks are additional branch-relationship schemes, and this pair was checked against those too.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Treating a percentage match score as calculated from any of this.<\/strong> None of the branch-relationship schemes above produce a number like &#8220;78% compatible&#8221; \u2014 that presentation format is a modern convention layered on top, not an output of the classical system.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Reading this page as a verdict on two specific people.<\/strong> It explains the general classical pattern for the sign pairing, not two actual birth charts.<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"go-deeper\">\n      <h2>Read it for two real charts<\/h2>\n      <p>Everything above is the general pattern for the sign pairing. If you want it for two specific people \u2014 not a generic reading \u2014 these go a step further:<\/p>\n      <div class=\"tzl-note\">\n        <p><strong>Couple Compatibility Report<\/strong> \u2014 both birth charts side by side: how the two signs and their elements read together, where they align and where they pull in different directions. <a href=\"\/product\/couple-chinese-zodiac-compatibility-report\/\">See the report &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n        <p><strong>Personalized Reading<\/strong> \u2014 one person&#8217;s full stem-branch write-up: element balance, the signs they traditionally match or clash with, and year-specific traditional symbolism. <a href=\"\/product\/personalized-reading\/\">See the reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card tzl-faq\" id=\"faq\">\n      <h2>Rat and Dragon compatibility: FAQ<\/h2>\n      <details><summary>Are Rat and Dragon compatible in the Chinese zodiac?<\/summary><p>They&#8217;re named together in one classical rule, Three Harmonies (\u7533\u5b50\u8fb0), alongside Monkey. The Ming-dynasty Sanming Tonghui, the classical source cited on this page, states the full transformation needs all three branches to form \u2014 with Monkey missing, a Rat-Dragon pair isn&#8217;t the complete trio. But it isn&#8217;t nothing either: later BaZi terminology classifies \u5b50\u8fb0 on its own as a recognized \u5893\u65fa\u534a\u5408\u6c34\u5c40 (half-combination), weaker than the full trio but real. None of the other six branch-relationship schemes checked on this page name Rat and Dragon as a pair or a clash.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>What is the \u7533\u5b50\u8fb0 Three Harmonies trio?<\/summary><p>It&#8217;s the Rat-Dragon-Monkey group in the Three Harmonies (\u4e09\u5408) system. The Sanming Tonghui explains it through a Water life cycle: Monkey is at Water&#8217;s birth stage, Rat is at its flourishing stage, and Dragon is at its storage stage \u2014 together forming what the text calls a Water frame (\u6c34\u5c40).<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Do Rat and Dragon still have a traditional relationship without Monkey?<\/summary><p>Yes, but not as a complete \u7533\u5b50\u8fb0 Three Harmonies Water configuration. The Sanming Tonghui says the full transformation does not form when one of the three branches is missing. In later and widely used BaZi terminology, \u5b50\u8fb0 is nevertheless treated as a half-combination (\u534a\u5408) \u2014 specifically a \u5893\u65fa\u534a\u5408 (peak-and-storage half-combination) \u2014 weaker than the complete three-branch configuration but a recognized category of its own.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Does the Water frame mean Rat and Dragon are both Water element signs?<\/summary><p>No. Rat&#8217;s own branch element is Water and Dragon&#8217;s is Earth. The Water frame described for \u7533\u5b50\u8fb0 is a separate, combination-level effect that belongs to the three-branch trio as a unit, not a restatement of what element each sign individually carries.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>What is Rat&#8217;s Six Harmonies partner?<\/summary><p>Ox. Rat and Ox are one of the six traditional &#8220;secret friend&#8221; (Six Harmonies) pairs. Dragon&#8217;s Six Harmonies partner is Rooster.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Is Rat-Dragon one of the Six Harms (\u516d\u5bb3) pairs?<\/summary><p>No. Rat&#8217;s Six Harms partner is Goat (\u5b50\u672a\u76f8\u5bb3); Dragon&#8217;s is Rabbit (\u536f\u8fb0\u76f8\u5bb3). Rat and Dragon are not named together in that scheme.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Is this page a substitute for a personalized reading?<\/summary><p>No. It explains the general cultural pattern for the Rat-Dragon pairing as a symbolic tradition \u2014 not a prediction, and not medical, financial, or relationship advice. For two specific birth charts, see the Couple Compatibility Report linked above.<\/p><\/details>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"next-steps\">\n      <h2>Where to go next<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"tzl-links\">\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-compatibility\/\"><strong>Compatibility Hub<\/strong>The full chart, calculator, and best\/worst matches for all 12 signs.<span>See the hub &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/compatibility-rat\/\"><strong>Rat Compatibility<\/strong>Rat&#8217;s full breakdown against all 12 signs.<span>Read Rat &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/compatibility-dragon\/\"><strong>Dragon Compatibility<\/strong>Dragon&#8217;s full breakdown against all 12 signs.<span>Read Dragon &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-three-harmonies\/\"><strong>Three Harmonies<\/strong>The four trine groups, explained in full.<span>Read Three Harmonies &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/compatibility-monkey\/\"><strong>Monkey Compatibility<\/strong>The trio&#8217;s third member, against all 12 signs.<span>Read Monkey &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/dragon-tiger-compatibility\/\"><strong>Dragon and Tiger<\/strong>A different trio system entirely \u2014 Three Meetings, not Three Harmonies.<span>Read Dragon-Tiger &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"editorial-note\">\n      <h2>Editorial note<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"tzl-source-note\">The Three Harmonies, Six Harmonies, and Six Conflicts groupings referenced here follow this site&#8217;s own <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-three-harmonies\/\">Three Harmonies<\/a>, <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-six-harmonies\/\">Six Harmonies<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-opposite-signs\/\">Six Conflicts<\/a> reference pages; this site does not yet publish dedicated reference pages for Three Meetings, Six Harms, Mutual Punishments, or Mutual Breaks, so those four are summarized here from general classical sources rather than linked to an in-depth page. The \u7533\u5b50\u8fb0 Three Harmonies passage, including the birth-flourish-storage life-cycle explanation and the &#8220;combination does not form with one branch missing&#8221; condition, is quoted from the Ming-dynasty <em><a href=\"https:\/\/m.gushiwen.cn\/guwen\/bookv_e48ce85a5985.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sanming Tonghui<\/a><\/em> (\u4e09\u547d\u901a\u4f1a), compiled by Wan Min-ying. The \u534a\u5408 (half-combination) classification of \u5b50\u8fb0 as a \u5893\u65fa\u534a\u5408\u6c34\u5c40, and its distinction from the stronger \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408 pairs like \u7533\u5b50, reflect later and widely used BaZi (\u5b50\u5e73) practitioner terminology rather than a direct quotation from that same Ming-dynasty passage; this page cites a representative modern practitioner reference for that specific grading (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrology.com.tw\/blog\/311\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">astrology.com.tw, \u547d\u904b\u7db2<\/a>, which lists all four \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408 pairs and all four \u5893\u65fa\u534a\u5408 pairs, including \u5b50\u8fb0, by name) rather than attributing it to the Sanming Tonghui text quoted above. The Six Harms pairings (\u5b50\u672a\u76f8\u5bb3, \u536f\u8fb0\u76f8\u5bb3) are drawn from the Sanming Tonghui&#8217;s chapter on Six Harms, and the Mutual Punishments detail (\u5b50\u536f\u76f8\u5211; Dragon&#8217;s self-punishment grouping) from its chapter on Mutual Punishments. This page explains a cultural and classical lens for the Rat-and-Dragon pairing for interest and education. It is not a prediction, and not medical, financial, or relationship advice.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n  {\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[\n    {\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Are Rat and Dragon compatible in the Chinese zodiac?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"They're named together in one classical rule, Three Harmonies (\u7533\u5b50\u8fb0), alongside Monkey. 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Dans la tradition du zodiaque chinois, certains signes animaux sont regroup\u00e9s en trios cens\u00e9s fonctionner ensemble avec une aisance hors du commun \u2014 ce syst\u00e8me s\u2019appelle les \u00ab Trois Harmonies \u00bb (\u4e09\u5408), et le Rat, le Dragon et le Singe forment l\u2019un de ses quatre trios, connu sous le nom de\u2026 <a title=\"Compatibilit\u00e9 entre le Rat et le Dragon : deux des trois harmonies\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/rat-dragon-compatibility\/\" aria-label=\"En savoir plus sur Rat and Dragon Compatibility: Two of Three Harmonies\">En savoir plus<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"rank_math_title":"Rat and Dragon Compatibility: Two of Three Harmonies","rank_math_description":"Rat and Dragon share a real Three Harmonies trio with Monkey, but the classical source says the combination needs all three branches to form.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"rat and dragon compatibility","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4178","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4533,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4178\/revisions\/4533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}