Date of birth of chicken

The year of chicken is 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 198 1, 1993, 2005,20.

The exact year of the Chinese zodiac is not based on the Lunar New Year, let alone the New Year's Day in the solar calendar, but on the beginning of spring in 24 solar terms, because according to the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, beginning of spring is the beginning of a year.

For example, 1993 is a chicken, but it was a monkey before 1993 and a chicken before 1994.

Related folk customs of Chinese zodiac chickens;

The rooster fought bravely, and the ancients imagined that it had the power to ward off evil spirits. Chen Haozi's "Flower Mirror" in the early Qing Dynasty: "The rooster can win the horn, and his eyes can ward off evil spirits". Zong Shen in the Southern Dynasties wrote a story about the age of Jingchu: "On the first day of the first month ... put a picture on the henhouse, with a reed rope hanging on it and a peach symbol beside it, so that all ghosts are afraid of it." On the first day of the first month, chickens don't kill, which is their birthday. During the Spring Festival in Chengdu, there are still pictures of chickens on the lintel. ?

When getting married in Shandong area, the woman chooses a boy to hold the hen and send it off with the sedan chair, which is homophonic with "Ji". In the old days, there were "long-lived chickens". Men and women prepared cocks and hens respectively. On the wedding day, two chickens were tied to the legs of the table and perched from time to time, symbolizing that the wife surrendered to her husband, and the two chickens were not allowed to be slaughtered.

Tujia people call kicking shuttlecock "kicking chicken". Men and women get together to kick chickens. When they receive chickens, they can chase anyone with grass, so young people can chase the right person. Dali Bai people are popular with "chicken rice ceremony", and the single ceremony is a rooster and an altar of rice wine; Double gifts are two big cocks, an altar of rice wine and an altar of rice seeds, which are sent to each other at the first-degree relatives or in-laws' homes.

In ancient times, you had to kill the rooster, drop chicken blood in the wine, swear to God, and drink all the blood and wine. Hong Kong also has a ceremony to cut off the head of a chicken and swear.