〈Name〉(1) 形声从隹、奚声. Original meaning:Poultry name. Rooster can dawn). Ornithology pheasant family poultry, many varieties. Chicken is the most common poultry raised by humans. Domestic chicken originated from the wild proto chicken, its domestication history of at least about 4,000 years, but until around 1800 chicken meat and eggs became mass-produced commodities. There are different kinds of chickens, such as turkey, crow chicken and pheasant. The chicken is also a member of the 12 Chinese zodiac. Character Meaning Chinese Character: 雞 jī chicken Character Bone Sculpture Evolution: Quoted from: Ding Zaixian and Ding Lei, "Dongyi Culture and Shandong - Bone Sculpture Interpretation and Reading", Chapter 19, Section 2, China Literature and History Publishing House, February 2012 edition. Simplified Chinese: 鸡 pinyin: jī traditional Chinese: 鶏说明：本字或體从奚从隹，"隹 "本指 "鸟儿"，特指 "鸟头"，引申为 "尖头"，"" Tip", "top". (The combination of "Xi" and "Troi" means "one of the earliest domesticated birds in the generations" and "at the top of the sequence of poultry varieties". Trojan" means "one of the earliest domesticated birds" and "at the top of the list of poultry species".) Ornithology pheasant family poultry, many varieties, short sharp beak, crown and meat beard, short wings, especially the common domestic chicken (Gallus gallus) [chicken] chicken, know the time beasts. From short-tailed, Xi sound. From bird. -- "Shuowen" chicken, a small beast, the main Division time to rise and fall. -- "Han Shu - five elements of the Zhi" food beans and chickens. -- "Rituals - moon order" chicken said han yin. -- "Rituals - Qu Li" Xun for the chicken. -- "Yi - said Gua Chuan" industrial and commercial chicken. --Zhou Li Da Zong Bo chicken and dogs. --Jin Tao Yuanming, "Records of the Peach Blossom Garden" (桃花源记) The old man has chicken and millet. --Tang Meng Haoran, "Passing the Old Man's Village", "Chickens Roosting in the Hall". --Ming Gui Youguang, Xiang Ji Xuan Zhi, and e.g.: Chicken Man (male chicken); Chicken Square (chicken farm). Chicken, one of the poultry. Head with red meat crown and meat beard. The male is good at crowing and fighting, and can report the dawn. There are many varieties. Meat and eggs are for consumption: raise ~ to get rich. 2. According to the famous lexicographer Wang Guanghan, "Dictionary Issues Research - this thing is not the other four rules of interpretation", pointed out that: "the Chinese dictionary" "chicken (chicken)" of the interpretation of the cloud: "with the 'chicken'. Shawen - Trojan Tail Department ":" chicken, know the time of the animal also. Chicken, pre-written chicken from the bird.'" Book example of the Song Dynasty Liu over the "wake up alone fugue": "such as acetic acid out of chicken, lotus was born in the mud." How could "acetic acid" produce "chickens" as "animals that know the time"? How could chickens, as poultry, and acetic acid have this relationship of "coming out"? Aoyl, that is, the vinegar mentioned by people today. The Analects of Confucius - Gongye Chang: "Who says that the microbes are high and straight? Or begging for acyl, or begging their neighbors for it." Xing Bing: "acyl, vinegar." In ancient times, vinegar and wine making were similar, so vinegar was also called vinegar wine. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica - Grain IV - Vinegar" explains the name, citing Tao Hongjing: "Vinegar wine ...... is also called acyl, with a bitter flavor, commonly known as bitter wine." Aoyl is also sometimes used to refer to wine. Yi Li - Hire Rites: "acyl minced meat 100 urns, clip the tablet ten thought columns, acyl in the east." Jia Gongyan: "Acyl is the brewing of grain, wine and so on." The term acyl refers either to vinegar or to wine with a sour flavor. Regardless of whether it refers to vinegar or wine, it is clear that it would not produce chickens, a fowl that "knows the time". Then "acetic acid out of chicken" of "chicken" what exactly is it? The Ming Dynasty Yuan Hongdao "drunken old man biography" cloud: "the small insects impregnated cup, such as chicken in the acyl, and wine are exhausted." The text is also to "chicken" and "acyl" and mentioned, but also specifically said "and wine are exhausted", indicating that the chicken is not poultry. Because as a poultry, the chicken was put in the vinegar and wine for a longer period of time, and it would not be "exhausted". Lie Zi - Tian Rui" said, "The acyl chicken is born with wine." This is the same meaning as "acetic acid produces chickens". Therefore, the "chicken" mentioned above refers to acyl chicken. Zhuangzi - Tian Zifang: "Qiu's knowledge of Tao is also like that of acyl chicken!" Guo Xiang's note: "The acyl chicken is the midge in the urn." The Classical Interpretations cited by Sima Yun: "If the midge is on the wine, it is also on the midge." Guo Qingfan Jizhi: "Taiping Yuban" 395, citing Sima Yun: "acyl chicken, wine on the flying gnats." It can be seen from the above notes that the so-called acyl chicken is actually a kind of small flying insect in the wine jar and vinegar altar. Therefore, "Holding Park Zi - Sai difficult" and "midge's education in acyl vinegar", "education", is "born", is "out of the The "midge", or "gnat", is the "acyl chicken", or the so-called "chicken", and the "midge", or "gnat", is the "chicken". The "chicken" is the so-called "chicken". Acyl chicken is not chicken, and it has nothing to do with poultry, so the dictionary should set up another "acyl chicken" for "chicken". The Chinese Dictionary also does not have the meaning of "acyl chicken" under the single character "鸡", which should be added according to the above. The glyph of "You" is the pictogram of a wine vessel. Hubei yumeng sleep tiger qin tomb unearthed bamboo slips, found "day book" two kinds. One of them contains the Chinese zodiac and states "You, water." Yu Haoliang explains, "You, water." Water is pronounced as "pheasant" and "pheasant is a wild chicken, and it is said that You belongs to the chicken, when it is developed from You belongs to the pheasant." Probably when the zodiac appeared, people used chicken and pheasant as the same genus of You. By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it became finalized that You was compatible with the chicken. Wang Chong said clearly in "On the Balance", "You, the chicken is also." English translation Chicken chicken, chick chick, hen hen, laying chicken fowl, egg egg, chicken crown (or chicken crown flower) cockscomb, male cock cock .