Chinese Zodiac: Chicken Rooster

The ancients often compared the jade rabbit with the moon and the golden crow with the sun. Ancient myths say that there are gods in the sun. It is the three-legged crow, also known as the Japanese crow, the golden crow, and the golden crow. In ancient legends, the connection between the golden rooster and the sun is to announce the dawn. Ancient timing devices were not yet developed. People worked at sunrise and rested at sunset. Early in the morning, Wan Jia’s dream broke with a rooster, oh oh screaming, before the sunrise, reporting the beginning of a new day. At sunset, the chicken returns to the nest, the night begins, and the day ends. Naturally, the cock crowing has become the clock of ordinary dealers, the timer of officials and officials, and the clock of social public life.

The "Book of Songs" writes about the cock crowing. One of the poems was taken from the Qi State. It is written that the monarch’s wife persuades the monarch to go to the early morning, and the coveted monarch loves bed. The poem begins with the words of the virtuous internal helper: "The chicken is humming, and the court is full." This is the virtuous wife urging: "The chicken has been called, and the people from the court are all here." The monarch pretended to be confused: "The rooster is Sing, the sound of flies" insists that the cock crowing is a buzzing flies. Asking about the cock crowing and loving the bed is a kind of mental state, and smelling the chicken dancing is another kind of spirit. We understand the story of Wenji dancing, which was later passed down as an idiom, which means working hard and inspiring people to make progress in time.

Let's take a look at anecdotes, stories, and customs about chickens.

No. 1:

Zuti in the Jin Dynasty was a man of magnanimous ambition. But when he was a kid, he was a naughty kid who didn't like to read. Entering his youth, he realized his lack of knowledge and felt that he could not serve the country without reading, so he began to read books energetically. He read books extensively, studied history earnestly, drew a wealth of knowledge from them, and made great progress in learning. He has been in and out of Luoyang, Kyoto several times. People who have contacted him say that Zu Ti is a talent who can assist the emperor to govern the country. When Zu Ti was 24 years old, someone recommended him to be an official, but he didn't agree, and he still worked tirelessly to study. Later, Zu Ti and his childhood friend Liu Kun Yizhi served as director of Sizhou. He and Liu Kun have deep feelings. Not only do they often lie in the same bed and sleep together, but they also have the same lofty ideals: to make contributions, to rejuvenate the Jin country, and to become the pillars of the country. Once, in the middle of the night, Zuti heard the rooster crowing in his sleep. He kicked Liu Kun to wake him up and said to him: "Others think it is unlucky to hear a rooster crowing in the middle of the night. I don’t think so, let’s hear it later. How about getting up and practicing swords when the cock cries?" Liu Kun readily agreed. So they get up every day after the cock cries to practice the sword, the sword light is flying, the sword sound is sonorous. Spring goes and winter comes, and there is no interruption between the cold and the summer. Kungfu pays off. After a long period of hard study and training, they have finally become all-rounders capable of literary and military skills, able to write good articles and lead soldiers to win battles. Zu Ti was named a general in Zhenxi, fulfilling his desire to serve the country; Liu Kun became a general in the north, and managed the military of the three states of the merger, Hebei, and You, and gave full play to his literary talents and martial arts.

No. 2:

There is a special marriage custom in Taiwan, called Yinlu Chicken. The female family bought a sturdy hen that is about to lay eggs and a rooster that just crowed. On the day of the girl’s marriage, the parents have to pull two nine-foot-long red ropes, one to tie the hen’s feet and the other to tie the cock’s feet, and then put them into a big new meal basket and be brought by the bridesmaid. The groom's house. After entering the door, it was renamed "Gong Po Chicken" or "Husband and Wife Chicken", with the intention of wishing the newlyweds to live in harmony and love to grow old. Another implication is that the chicken has five virtues (civil, martial, courage, benevolence, and faith), which symbolizes that a woman must imitate the virtues of the chicken in the future, and the nine-foot red rope is a metaphor for "longevity" when the bride enters the bridal chamber after matchmaker or aunts quickly approached deregulation, the "chicken-laws" put under the marriage bed, if the "Cock" first came out, people shouting: "first-born boy ." If the "chicken mother" comes out first, call out; "Mr. Sister, then recruit the younger brother."

No. 3:

In the old marriage customs in Hebei, Shandong and other places, the long-lived chicken was used as a symbol of good luck. When the new marriage is approaching, the man prepares a red rooster and the woman prepares a fat hen. The hen indicates that the bride is a "good luck man." When marrying, the woman’s chicken must be held by her underage brother or other boys, set off with the sedan chair, and rush to the man’s house before the cock crows. The common belief is that the cock is still asleep and the hen is not asleep. It means to overwhelm the rooster with aura and not to be bullied by men in the future. The man handed the rooster to the cock holder, tied the two chickens together on the legs of the table, and beat the rooster from time to time until the rooster became weak. The people think this is a symbol of the wife's subduing her husband in the future. These two chickens cannot be slaughtered, so they are called long-lived chickens.

No. 4:

The folk of the Han nationality has the custom of wearing the "Cock" on the first spring day, which is popular in the northwest of Shanxi and some areas of Shandong. The spring rooster, also known as the spring chicken, is an ornament made by young women using rags before the beginning of spring and hung on children. The spring chicken is wrapped in cotton with paper-bottomed floral cloth, shaped like a water chestnut, one corner is decorated with pepper kernels as corns, and the other corner is sewn with a few floral cloth strips as a cock tail. The spring chicken is nailed to the child's left sleeve, which means auspicious Chinese New Year. . The cloth chicken is usually thrown away at the temple fair on the 16th day of the first lunar month. The chickens worn by children who have not been bred with vaccinia have to hold a bunch of soybeans, and a few grains in a bunch of several years old, which is called "chicken eats pox".

No. 5:

The Tujia people call shuttlecock kicking "kicking chicken". During the Spring Festival , young men and women kick the "chicken" together. One person kicks the "chicken" and everyone fights for it. Those who receive the "chicken" can chase anyone with grass. Young men and women often use grass to chase and beat their lovers. In this way, "kick the chicken" has become a medium of love and love.

No. 6:

It is popular among the Han people to wear a chicken heart bag on the Dragon Boat Festival , also known as the "Dragon Boat Bag", which is popular in the Jinhua area of Zhejiang Province. On the fifth day of May, people use red cloth to make small bags, which are shaped like chicken hearts, filled with tea, rice and realgar powder, and hung them on the chest of children to drive away evil spirits and pray for blessings. "Chicken heart" and "memory" are homonyms. In the folks, children hang up a chicken heart bag on the Dragon Boat Festival . They have a good reading memory and will have future prospects.

No. 7:

The first day of the first lunar month of the Xia calendar was formerly known as Chicken Day, which was popular in Hubei, Hunan, Zhejiang and other places. On this day, people see whether the weather is cloudy and sunny, and whether the poultry industry is prosperous in the past. The weather is the main cause of breeding, and the overcast is the main disaster. Today, quit killing chickens, avoid beating and scolding chickens, and feed chickens more carefully than usual, in order to thrive.

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东南沿海一带流行“公鸡拜”的婚俗，这是用公鸡代替新郎与新娘拜堂的一种仪式。在海边或海岛上的渔民，男女两家择定婚期后，在成婚当天，如新郎出海捕鱼遇上风暴，不能如期赶上吉日良辰，男家便用公鸡行拜堂礼。由小姑或伴郎手提公鸡，按捺鸡头和新娘交拜。拜堂毕，在公鸡颈上悬一条红布，并将鸡关进洞房，以饭食喂养。待新郎出海归来后，才将公鸡放出，故当地民间有“阿姑代拜堂，公鸡陪洞房”之谚。

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