Because the word "chicken" and "auspicious" are 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 prosperity.
Drinking chicken soup at the first meal of the Spring Festival symbolizes "peace in Thailand". The main labor force also eats chicken feet, which means that "grasping wealth in the new year" and "promising young people" should eat chicken wings, which means that they can fly very high and eat the whole chicken on New Year's Eve, which means that they can fly very high and prosper, and at the same time they take the homonym of "home", which means that the whole family will get together 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 will eat chicken feet in the New Year, which means robbing money. Eating chicken feet in the new year represents people's good wishes for rich income in the coming year. Moreover, in many places, chicken is also an indispensable ingredient for ancestor worship in the New Year, and chicken is an indispensable food during the New Year. 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 in different places have different tastes. 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 in the coming year, and every family will be safe and sound.