Because the word "chicken", that is, "auspicious", is easy to understand and deeply rooted in people's hearts, eating chicken in the New Year is for good luck. Among them, chicken wings mean flying high and thriving.
Drinking chicken soup for the first meal during the Spring Festival symbolizes "peace in Thailand". The main labor force also eats chicken feet, which means "grasping wealth in the New Year", and "promising young people" want to eat chicken wings, which means that they can fly high and eat the whole chicken on New Year's Eve, which means that they can fly high and prosper. At the same time, they take the homonym of "home" to mean family reunion after eating chicken.
Social customs and habits
The moral of eating chicken feet in the New Year is that the homonym of "claw" and "scratch" is very similar. Many people eat chicken feet during the Spring Festival, which means robbing money. Eating chicken feet in the new year represents people's good wishes for rich financial resources in the coming year. Moreover, in many places, chicken is also an indispensable food for ancestor worship in the New Year, and eating chicken in the New Year is a must. In many places, the traditional custom of China has continued to this day, eating chicken in the New Year.
Sichuan and Chongqing like to make spicy chicken, while Guangdong likes to eat pork belly chicken and boiled chicken. Chickens taste different from place to place. The ancients believed that chicken and chicken blood had the function of exorcising ghosts and evil spirits, and eating Wenchang chicken on New Year's Eve was also for good luck. I look forward to good weather and peace in the coming year.