Boars have an inherently bad reputation.
Popular culture such as the 1995 comedy "Babe," a film about a lovable farmyard pig that is raised as a sheepdog, may have helped to change this perception in recent times, but the negativity surrounding the animal is even embedded in our language. Most pig-related idioms reinforce an image of the animal being dirty, gluttonous or generally unpleasant.
According to astrologists, however, pigs have plenty of good traits that will serve us well in 2019 — the Year of the Boar according to the Chinese calendar.