No one can use colored chicken to worship the gods, to take the meaning of clean and white, at most use white cut chicken, if you use soy sauce chicken, the appearance of black, then the meaning is not good.
Secondly, to worship the gods of the chicken if the white cut chicken, but never cut pieces.
No chicken can be cut into pieces, it must be a whole chicken, worship God to use the whole thing, not with broken things, people believe that this is the fear of God.
Thirdly, the chicken breed also has to pay attention to, hen geldings are not, must be born chicken.
Worship of the gods generally use raw chicken, and do not use geldings, because the raw chicken is intact, has not been castrated, the raw chicken raw fierce, can be reproduced. Therefore, to worship the gods, they usually use raw chickens, and their crowns should be good-looking and spiritual, so they do not use hens.
Fourth, the chicken claws must be collected in the chicken belly, never show.
Chicken claws toward the gods some disrespect, claws out, a see feel uncomfortable, so people bend the chicken claws into the chicken belly.
Fifth, the worship of the gods to use chicken, but eggs should be used with caution.
To honor the gods to complete the offerings, the use of eggs feel disrespectful to the gods, so the general worship of the gods do not use eggs. However, to honor the ancestors with eggs, the child's full moon to honor the ancestors must have eggs, to tell the ancestors that the family has a new life.
One, two, three, four, five said so much, in fact, these are the old customs of the past, in fact, worship of the gods and ancestors are the Chinese people to the ancestors of the memorial and the expression of respect for the elderly.