The implication of eating chicken on New Year's Eve.

Eating chicken in the New Year is for good luck, and chicken wings mean flying high and prosperity.

Eating chicken during the Spring Festival is for good luck. Chicken wings mean flying high and thriving. Drinking chicken soup at the first meal of the Spring Festival symbolizes peace and tranquility, and eating chicken bones means getting ahead.

When eating New Year's Eve, the first dish in many places is chicken, because it means good luck, and there must be a chicken on the table as New Year's food, because "eating chicken begins". Some people in Guangzhou worship God and regard chickens and geese as their "eldest sons", so they choose "local chickens" and are fierce for survival. Eating chicken in the New Year means good luck. Because the pronunciation of the word "chicken" is similar to that of "chicken", it has become a must for New Year's Eve.

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Chickens were called "birds of virtue" in ancient times, and people often called them "phoenix". Most of the core folk customs of Chinese zodiac chickens are related to the habits and appearance of chickens, that is, gorgeous feathers, cock crowing, hens brooding and eating poisonous insects. Among pheasants, chickens, pheasants and peacocks all have gorgeous and stretched feathers, so pheasants become the king of birds.

The word "chicken" is just homophonic with the word "auspicious", so chicken is also an auspicious bird in folk culture. The first day of the first month is rooster day. There is a folk custom of "painting chicken" indoors or on the door, which means auspicious entry, and the painting of chicken pattern means "auspiciousness" and "good luck". There are also local New Year pictures and paper-cuts with the model of "Chicken Wang Zhen House" posted in the New Year.