Chickens are virtuous chickens.
The chicken is still auspicious. The ancients emphasized "auspiciousness", and chicken is homophonic with "auspiciousness", so it is auspicious. New Year's Day must be "Chicken Day". Before the Spring Festival, people cut chickens with red paper to make window grilles, and painted chickens on doors to make door gods.
Chickens are not only auspicious, but also ward off evil spirits. The ancients believed that chickens ate all kinds of poisonous insects, and all kinds of poisonous insects did not invade. Chicken and Zhong Kui have their own evils. Chickens have the evil of mosquito disease, while Zhong Kui has the evil of ghosts.
Therefore, an ancient chicken is very noble.
Minnan is far from the political center of China. In ancient times, due to the inconvenient transportation in hilly areas, the Central Plains was in melee, and southern Fujian was still partial. The Central Plains has been reformed, and Minnan still retains the traditions of its ancestors. Chicken in Minnan has also well retained its role as an aristocratic chicken.
This article tells how a chicken traveled in southern Fujian with the glorious mission of de chicken and Xiang chicken.
Marriage is the starting point for a couple. How to guide them to be a virtuous couple in their later life is very important. Therefore, taking chickens as an example, morality first, chickens first, and Minnan people getting married means leading the way.
With the guidance of the rooster and hen, the future will be auspicious and tragic.
Chicken is the mascot of Minnan wedding.
Now most weddings are replaced by chicken dolls. I married a pair of lively chickens when I got married. It's interesting to say that both the rooster and the hen will sleep with us at night. We all sleep in the bed, and they all sleep under the bed. No one will be safe all night.
Minnan people say that the rooster ran out first, the first child was a boy, and the hen ran out first, and the first child must be a girl. I married a rooster and hen, whose mother is more lively and always wants to go out. As soon as my husband saw the hen's head sticking out, he pressed it in. Chickens fly and dogs jump all night, but it's really interesting for hens to make wedding night.
Chicken is a wedding mascot, so the wedding banquet must be inseparable from chicken, so the second mission of chicken in southern Fujian is to send good luck.
Minnan people are very kind. Not only do they want to be lucky at home, but they also want all the relatives and friends who come to the wedding banquet to be lucky. How can they send good luck? That's the groom's choice of chicken.
The wedding banquet in southern Fujian must serve a whole chicken (cutting into pieces is absolutely not acceptable), and it must be a good chicken, commonly known as black-bone chicken, but the name black-bone chicken is really indecent, and the meaning of good chicken is better. Are Minnan people very particular about it?
This is an auspicious wedding reception. Both the bride and groom have five virtues and are very lucky. At the wedding banquet, the groom's official should pick the chicken.
Good chickens appeared in the second half of the wedding banquet. The audience did not move chopsticks when they saw the chicken, and waited for the groom to pick the chicken and propose a toast. At this time, the bride should "see the chicken fly", which means that when she sees the chicken, she should get up and let her mother-in-law sit in a big position to show her respect. Then, under the guidance of the groom, she will go to various tables to pick chickens and propose a toast.
Picking a chicken is to open the chicken with chopsticks, which means giving everyone good luck. The groom didn't come to pick the chicken, and no one dared to touch the chicken at the banquet. After all, there are two great events in life, "the wedding night and the nomination for the Academy Awards". Who doesn't want to touch the groom's happiness?
It's a bit like throwing flowers at a western-style wedding, except that Minnan people are more affordable. After picking up chickens and sending them to Kyrgyzstan, they can still eat good chickens.
The wedding was busy for a while, and the chicken completed two major tasks. Newlyweds sprinkle dog food with all kinds of love. At this time, the third task of the chicken came. The married couple can't always be bored. The young couple should work together. It's time to get started.
So the chicken completes this mission through a "rooster bowl".
The rooster bowl is also called "lifting the bowl". Quanzhou Dehua magnetic kiln produced this kind of bowl, which was used by people in southern Fujian. It is a beautiful and mighty rooster with a red comb and a big black tail scattered around, next to banana leaves and small flowers.
"Chicken" and "home" are homophonic in many places in the Great Minnan Language Area. As the saying goes, "if you eat chicken, you will get married", so Minnan people use this "rooster bowl" to urge themselves to get married at all times.
"Getting married" means "getting rich", and the rooster is a symbol of wealth. "The cock wears a hat, and the official (crown) adds the official (crown)", haha.
Married life is on the right track, and "getting married" is developing.
Near the Spring Festival, southerners don't have the habit of cutting chicken window grilles and sticking chicken door gods, but chicken is still very important. Minnan people attach importance to the Lantern Festival. On the first Lantern Festival, parents will give lanterns. "Deng" and "Ding" are homophonic in Minnan dialect, which is the blessing of "Tian Ding". At this time, the chicken's fourth task came, and the young couple had to lay branches at home.
What lanterns did the bride's family send? Rooster lights and lotus lights, rooster stands for boys, lotus stands for girls. I'd like to introduce this kind of cock lamp to you. It has a red body, a golden neck and a long black tail. It's really magnificent.
Minnan people want girls to be like lotus flowers and boys to be like roosters. They are not only magnificent, but also have the five virtues of "literature, martial arts, courage, benevolence and faith"
Having children after marriage, life is smooth sailing. I really want to thank the chicken for not only bringing good luck, but also exorcising evil spirits, giving children an important life inspiration: to be a person with both five virtues.
Chickens seem to have nothing to perform, but life needs rituals. Marriage needs ceremony, Chinese New Year holidays need ceremony, and birthdays also need ceremony. Life with ceremonies will be interesting.
So the chicken invited the duck to add color to the birthday of Minnan people.
"If you eat chicken and duck, you will get something." Birthday parties in southern Fujian like to use whole chickens and ducks, which means you can live to 100 years old by eating chickens and ducks.
Chicken and duck are good friends. Chickens have a high status. They are not only named De Chicken and Xiang Chicken, but also occupy a place in the zodiac. Ducks have nothing. Thanks to the help of chickens, they finally showed up at the birthday party.
But the century-long mission of chicken can not be separated from duck, so the two complement each other, and no one owes anyone.
Nowadays, while the game of eating chicken is popular, chicken soup for the soul is also close behind, but both the game and the paragraph are so virtual that you have nowhere to catch.
The glorious mission of the chicken, which has been said for a long time, is also illusory in people's hearts.
These are not as good as a bowl of real chicken soup and a real chicken leg.
I think as a chicken, its ultimate mission in this life is to become delicious, fall into people's stomach, nourish people's body, nourish people's physique, and finally become indispensable food.
So, good luck and eat chicken tonight.
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