Chickens do not snore, roosters gurgle in their mouths because of inflammation in their bodies and mucus in their throats, similar to the case of people with phlegm.

Ancient Han Chinese have "kill the chicken" year custom, popular in Zhejiang Jinhua, Wuyi and other places. Every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, the local folk must rooster, because the night of the Cowherd, the Weaving Maiden magpie bridge meeting, if no rooster dawn, will never be separated.

The Tujia people call playing shuttlecock "kicking chicken". During the Spring Festival, young men and women kicked the shuttlecock together, one person kicked the chicken up, and all the people went to catch it, and the one who received the chicken could use the grass to chase and hit 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. As the saying goes, "October 1, kill the chickens."

Expanded Information

China's chicken culture has a long history and colorful connotations. In Gansu Tianshui Xishanping Dadiwan culture, has been found about 8000 years ago, the domestic chicken our oracle bones in the word "chicken", that our country as far as more than 3000 years ago to recognize the chicken, chicken in our country has a history of 8000 years, there are words can be traced at least 3,000 years of history.

It was one of the first countries in the world to raise chickens, and it was also the first country to discover that chickens have a variety of medicinal values. In traditional Chinese culture, the dragon and the phoenix are deified animals, but the chicken is a spirit bird with an extraordinary life, for example, the image of the phoenix comes from the chicken.