Or simple soup, then chicken is more used to make broth. As you wrote, you can make broth from ribs and chicken, then clarify it and add small vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage, small rapeseed and various fungi. If you like meat, you can make small balls or fish balls and adjust them according to your personal taste.
In this way, the chicken ribs seem a little wasteful and can be fished out in time. In addition, when cooking, such as ribs, the simplest thing is to dip them in garlic juice after cooking. Chicken can be diced and fried with other dishes. However, if you really cook soup, you usually cook it with a chicken skeleton or a big bone stick.