Why is Hainan "no chicken, no feast"?

"No chicken, no banquet" is their mantra at the dinner table. Whether it's a family dinner, ancestor worship or a banquet, chicken is the main course. There is a record of "chicken divination", one of the ancient divination methods, in the Historical Records of Xiaowu: the ancients sacrificed to the gods and divined good and bad luck with the shape of corn whiskers. Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty also wrote a poem to worship the water god with corns. For thousands of years, chicken has represented auspiciousness, joy and beauty, and has rich nutritional value. Therefore, they must have chickens on the banquet table.

If you want to eat Wenchang chicken, you must go to its birthplace. Wenchang chicken is the most famous traditional dish in Wenchang area and the first of the four famous dishes in Hainan. Everyone who travels to Hainan must taste delicious food. At present, Hainan has formed many tourism industries, including marine tourism, leisure tourism, cultural and sports tourism, exhibition tourism, rural tourism, forest eco-tourism, characteristic town tourism, shopping tourism, industrial tourism, special tourism and other global tourism.

There is no feast without chicken, and there is no feast without fish. "Vulgar means that there can be no banquet without chicken and fish. Origin: Nie Jidong's folklore about carp and its causes: "Fish is homophonic. Chicken and fish are absolutely indispensable at festivals and weddings in China, to show that they are not only auspicious celebrations and wealth. Therefore, for a long time, there has been a saying that' no chicken, no feast, no fish, no meal'. "

Eating chicken is also a feeling and a culture in Hainan. Wenchang Chicken is the most representative of many kinds of chickens in Hainan. Because of its tender meat, rich flavor, fat but not greasy, it is known as the first of Hainan's "four famous dishes" and is a must-eat food for every visitor to Hainan. "Hainan Chicken Rice" made of chicken oil and chicken soup is well-known at home and abroad and has become a hometown flavor that Hainan wanderers can't give up. Many foreigners living and working in Hainan are influenced by it and have the habit of eating "chicken".