First of all: chicken is a kind of poultry, domestic chicken originated from the wild proto-chicken, its domestication history of at least about 4000 years, but it was not until around 1800 that chicken meat and eggs became mass-produced commodities. There are different kinds of chickens, such as turkey, crow chicken and pheasant. And the chicken is also a genus in the 12 zodiac signs.
Chinese Name
Chicken
Latin Scientific Name
Gallus gallus domesticus
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Animal kingdom
Portal
Chiroptera
Subphylum
Subphylum Vertebrata
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China was the first country in the world to domesticate chickens, with a history of at least four thousand years. Chicken bones or ceramic chickens from more than 4,000 years ago have been found in Hubei, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan and Gansu provinces. The Chinese domestic chicken was domesticated from pheasants, which were first introduced to Britain in 1843 and imported to the United States in 1847. The American Rock Chicken was created in 1865 by crossing the Chinese nine-jin yellow with the black and white spotted American chicken. In Japan, Chinese chicken breeds were introduced during the Sui Dynasty, and at the end of the Shogunate period, Jiu Jin Huang chickens from Shanghai were introduced and bred into the famous Nagoya egg-meat-combined chicken. Wolf Mountain Chicken is mainly produced in the Jiangsu area, this kind of chicken is resistant to disease, breast chicken meat developed. 1872 imported to the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom's famous variety of Opuntia chicken from the Wolf Mountain Chicken and the local chickens cross-bred from. Later, the Wolf Mountain chicken was imported to the United States and Germany. It can be seen that the ancient Chinese domestic chicken varieties have a great influence on the world. [1]
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Customs
The ancient Han Chinese had a yearly custom of "killing chickens", which was popular in Jinhua, Wuyi and other places in Zhejiang Province. Every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, the local people must kill the rooster, because that night the cowherd
, the weaving girl magpie bridge meeting, if not the rooster dawn, will be able to never be separated.
The Tujia people call playing shuttlecock "kicking chicken". During the Spring Festival, young men and women kicked the shuttlecock together, and one person kicked the shuttlecock up, and all the people went to catch it, and the one who received the shuttlecock could use the grass to chase and beat anyone. And young men and women often use grass to chase their sweethearts. Afterwards, "kicking the chicken" became the medium of love.
On the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, some places in Henan Province to kill chickens to scare ghosts. Legend has it that the King of Hell released the ghosts to the next year's Qingming Festival to collect ghosts. Folk thought that ghosts are afraid of chicken blood, chicken blood to avoid evil, so on October 1 to kill chickens to scare ghosts, in order to make the little ghosts do not dare to come out. The proverb says: "October 1, kill the chickens."
Some areas in Shandong have a "chicken" wedding custom. Marriage, the female family to choose a boy to hold a hen, with the sedan chair departed, to send the bride. Because the chicken and the "Ji" harmonized, holding the chicken is lucky. In addition, in ancient times there is a stay "long life chicken" custom. Near the time of the new marriage, the male party to prepare a large red male
chicken, the female party to prepare a fat chicken, hen that the bride for the "lucky". Marriage, the woman prepared by the rooster must be held by their underage brother or other boys, with the sedan chair to go, and in the rooster before the male home. It is believed that the rooster does not sleep while the hen does not sleep, in order to overwhelm the rooster.
The Bai people in the Dali region of Yunnan Province popular "chicken rice ceremony" custom. Chicken and rice ceremony is divided into chicken and rice single gift and about rice double gift two kinds. Single gift for a rooster and a altar of rice wine; double gift for two roosters, a altar of rice wine, a altar of grain seeds. This is a gift given to each other between first cousins or in-laws at birth, marriage and house building.
The socializing custom of drinking cock's blood wine was popular among the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in the old days. When making brotherhood, in order to show that they are as close as brothers and share the same blessings and difficulties, people slaughtered a rooster, put a few drops of chicken blood in each bowl of wine, swore an oath to the sky, and then drank the blood wine in one go.
Finally, the chicken and rabbit meat together in a stew, so that the rice made, the flavor is very delicious, I hope to help you, hope to adopt.