The golden rooster refers to a rooster. The original meaning of the golden rooster is that the rooster crows to tell people that the sky is about to dawn. It is a symbol of good fortune, and the darkness will soon end and the dawn will come soon.

The chicken is a kind of poultry, the domestic chicken from the wild original chicken, its domestication history of at least about 4,000 years, but until around 1800 chicken meat and eggs to become a mass-produced commodities. Types of chickens include turkeys, crows, pheasants and so on. And the chicken is also a genus in the 12 zodiac signs.

China is the first country in the world to domesticate chickens, with a history of at least 4,000 years. Chicken bones or ceramic chickens from more than 4,000 years ago have been found in Hubei, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan and Gansu provinces. Chinese domestic chickens were domesticated from pheasants, and there are many fine varieties, among which the Jiujin Huang and Wolf Mountain chickens are very famous. The Jiujinhuang, also known as the Pudong chicken, is produced in the area of Nanhui, Fengxian and Chuansha in Shanghai, and is a large broiler chicken with yellow feathers, beak and feet, hence the name Sanhuang chicken.

The ancient Han Chinese had the custom of "killing chickens" at the end of the year, popular in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, Wuyi and other places. Every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, the local folk must be male chicken, because the night of the Cowherd, the Weaving Maiden magpie bridge meeting, if there is no rooster dawn, will be able to 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. Later, "kicking chicken" became the medium of love.