Killing chickens in the twelfth lunar month

This is because "chicken" and "auspicious" mean good luck. Chickens eat less than pigs to avoid not having enough meat at home during the Spring Festival. Therefore, killing a rooster on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month means that everything is auspicious, and this chicken will be eaten on New Year's Eve, which also means that our year is auspicious and festive.

1, "chicken" and "Ji" are homophones.

Because "chicken" and "auspicious" are homophones, the Spring Festival is coming soon, and we all hope to do things with good expectations, so killing chickens at the end of the year means good luck. Maybe you have to ask, why do you want to kill the rooster instead of the hen? Because the hen can lay eggs, the role of the rooster is relatively small, and the rooster is more beautiful, so you choose to kill the rooster after weighing the pros and cons.

Chickens eat less than pigs, which avoids having no meat at home during the Chinese New Year.

Another reason is that chickens eat less than pigs, so it is of great significance to save chickens until the end of the year, and it also avoids not eating enough meat at home during the Chinese New Year, because our tradition is not to kill animals in the first month. The purpose of catching a big episode is to find out what is missing and make up some missing new year's goods, and also to reflect the prosperity of a year, which is what we call a "busy year."

Why can't the chickens killed this day be eaten?

For ordinary people, it is very important to kill chickens on the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month. Chicken is homophonic with auspiciousness, and it also represents a beautiful meaning. Therefore, eating chicken in the New Year is a tradition since ancient times. Although the chicken was killed on the 27th, people will not eat it on this day, but keep it for the New Year's Eve.

Of course, people don't just kill a chicken now, and they don't have to wait until New Year's Eve when they want to eat, but the rooster must remain intact. It should be used as a tribute to ancestors on New Year's Eve, and can only be eaten after ancestor worship. You can't eat all the chickens killed on this day, because you must eat them on New Year's Eve and the first month.