The main characteristics of Wenchang chicken can be described by the words "three small, three short, three yellow, one round". Three small is that the head is small, body is small, feet is small; three short is that the body is short, feet is short, neck is short; three yellow is that the yellow hair, yellow feet, yellow peck; a round is that the ass is round. Wenchang hen feathers to brown, yellow-brown and jute color, its body sturdy and proportional, golden feet and jade beak, the neck has a ring of mixed-color feathers embellished, small round body, feet and shins thin and short, the appearance of the meek and lovely, the individual is not large, weighing about 1.5 kilograms or so.

Hainan Wenchang chicken, a specialty of Wenchang City, Hainan Province, is a National Geographical Indication product of China. Wenchang City in the Western Han Dynasty built Zibei County, the first year of the Tang Zhenguan (627) changed Wenchang County, after more than 2,000 years, the county was abolished in 1995 to establish the city. It is famous as the hometown of culture, hometown of overseas Chinese and generals in Hainan Province and even in the whole country, and is the hometown of Song's Three Sisters, which is known as the Miracle of the East by the world. Wenchang chicken is the local chicken species in Hainan Province, has more than 400 years of breeding history, with thin skin, tender and smooth, meat flavor fragrance characteristics.