Nowadays, chickens are misunderstood and reduced to dust, but chickens never make excuses because they have noble conduct.

chicken is a virtue chicken.

Chicken is still auspicious. The ancients valued "auspicious". Chicken is homophonic with "auspicious", so it is auspicious. The New Year's Eve must be "Chicken Day". Before the Chinese New Year, people cut chickens with red paper to make window grilles and painted chickens on the doors to make door gods.

chickens are not only auspicious, but also ward off evil spirits. The ancients thought that chickens ate all kinds of poisonous insects, and all kinds of poisonous insects would not invade them. Chickens and Zhong Kui have different evils. Chickens have the evil of mosquito diseases, while Zhong Kui has the evil of ghosts.

So, 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 Minnan was still partial. The Central Plains has been reformed, and Minnan still retains the tradition of its ancestors. Chicken, too, has well retained its role as a noble chicken in southern Fujian.

This article tells how a chicken travels in southern Fujian as 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 future life is very important. Therefore, taking chickens as an example, taking morality first, taking chickens first, and Minnan people getting married, it means to lead the way.

with the guidance of the rooster and hen, the future days will be auspicious.

Chicken is the mascot of Minnan wedding.

Nowadays, chicken dolls are often used instead of wedding dolls. When I got married, I married a pair of lively chickens. It's fun to say that this rooster and hen have to sleep with us at night. We both sleep in the bed, and they both sleep at the bottom of the bed. No one will be safe all night.

Minnan people say that if the rooster runs out first, the first child will be a boy, and if the hen runs out first, the first child will definitely be a girl. The rooster and hen I married, whose mother was more lively, always wanted to go out. As soon as my husband saw the hen's head sticking out, he pressed it in. The chicken flew and the dog jumped all night, but it was really interesting for the hen to make a wedding night.

The chicken is the mascot of the wedding, so the wedding banquet is definitely inseparable from the chicken, so the second mission of the chicken in southern Fujian is to send good luck.

Minnan people are very kind. They not only want their own luck, but also hope that all relatives and friends who come to the wedding reception will be lucky. How can they send luck? That's the groom's official picking chicken.

The wedding banquet in southern Fujian must serve a whole chicken (chopped pieces are absolutely not acceptable), and it must be a good chicken, commonly known as black chicken, but the name of black chicken is really indecent, and the meaning of good chicken is better. Are Minnan people very particular about it?

This is an auspicious wedding banquet. The bride and groom have all five virtues and are in good luck. The groom should pick the chicken at the wedding banquet.

Good chicken 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's official to pick the chicken and propose a toast. At this time, the bride should "see the chicken fly", which means that she should get up when she sees the chicken, let her mother-in-law sit in a big position, and show respect to her mother-in-law. Then, under the leadership of the groom, she will go to various tables to pick the chicken and propose a toast.

Picking the chicken is to peel the chicken open with chopsticks, which means to share the good fortune with everyone. No one dares to touch the chicken at the banquet when the groom didn't come to pick the chicken. After all, who doesn't want to be touched by the groom's wedding night and the nomination of the gold medal?

It's a bit like throwing a flower ball at a western-style wedding, except that Minnan people are more affordable. After picking the chicken and sending it to Kyrgyzstan, they can also eat a good chicken.

The wedding was busy for a while, and the chicken completed two major missions. The newlyweds sprinkled dog food with all kinds of love. At this time, the third mission of the chicken came, and the married couple should not always be bored. The young couple should work together and it is time to "get started".

So the chicken completes this mission through a "cock bowl".

Rooster Bowl is also called "Starter Bowl". Quanzhou Dehua Kiln mostly produces this kind of bowl, which used to be found in people's homes in southern Fujian. It is a beautiful and mighty rooster with a red comb and a big black tail, with banana leaves and small flowers beside it.

In many places in the Great Minnan dialect area, "chicken" and "home" are homonyms. As the saying goes, "eating chicken will start a family", so Minnan people use this "rooster bowl" to urge themselves to "start a family" at all times.

"Starting a family" means "making a fortune", and a mighty rooster means prosperity. "A rooster wears a hat and an official (crown) is added to it", haha.

Married life is on the right track, and "starting a family" is developing.

As the Spring Festival approaches, southerners don't have the habit of cutting chicken window grilles or sticking chicken door gods, but chicken is still the most important thing. Minnan people attach importance to Lantern Festival, and on the first Lantern Festival of their wedding, their parents will send lanterns. "Deng" and "Ding" are homonyms in Minnan dialect, which is the blessing of "Tian Ding". At this time, the fourth mission of the chicken came, and the young couple wanted to spread the branches for the family.

what lanterns did her parents 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 mighty and majestic, but also have five virtues of "literature, martial arts, courage, benevolence and faithfulness".

After marriage, I had children, and my life went smoothly. I really want to thank the chickens, which not only brought good luck, but also ward off evil spirits, and gave the children an important life lesson: to be a person with all five virtues.

There seems to be nothing for chickens to perform, but life needs ceremony. Wedding needs ceremony, Chinese New Year holidays need ceremony, and birthdays also need ceremony, so a life with ceremony can be full of flavor.

So the chicken invited the ducks to add color to Minnan people's birthdays.

"If you eat chicken and duck, you'll get the best of it." The birthday party in southern Fujian likes to use whole chicken and duck. The implication is clear, that is, if you eat chicken and duck, you can live to be a hundred years old.

Chickens and ducks are good friends. Chickens have a high status. They are not only named as De Chicken and Xiang Chicken, but also occupy a place in the Chinese Zodiac. Ducks have nothing. Thanks to the chicken's help, they finally show their faces at the birthday party.

But the chicken's centenary mission can't be accomplished without the duck, so the two complement each other and nobody owes anyone.

While the game of eating chicken is popular now, chicken soup for the soul is also closely followed, but whether it is a game or a paragraph, it is virtually impossible for you to catch it.

and the glorious mission of the chicken, which has been talked about for a long time, is also illusory in people's minds.

These are better than 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 stomachs, nourish people's bodies, nourish people's physique and eventually become indispensable food.

so, good luck, eat chicken at night.

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