Do you notice the whole chicken on the roast chicken?

In fact, in the eyes of Cantonese, chicken is auspicious, and the word "chicken" means "auspicious" and "sacrifice". Eating chicken in the New Year is good luck. At the same time, you can kill two birds with one stone by using chickens to worship your ancestors. In ancient times, people thought that the rooster had a towering red crown and a magnificent and beautiful appearance. The homonym of "crown" and "official" literally means ceremony. The ancients took high-pitched as a gift, which meant promoting to a higher position and making a fortune.

Therefore, Cantonese people must eat chicken during the Spring Festival. This is to pin their best wishes on the chicken, which means that high officials are generous and rich, and they are promoted and made rich. Since it represents a good wish, the chicken on the table must be complete and represent perfection, and the wish can be realized. There is a dietary custom in Guangdong that "no feast without chicken", which shows how important "chicken" is to Cantonese people.

In fact, in most parts of China, chicken has a beautiful symbolic meaning, and as one of the most common poultry, everyone can afford it, so almost all families will put at least one chicken in the new year to represent the beauty of the next year.