Why do children wear chickens in early spring?

Putting spring chicken on your baby not only means praying for good luck, but also means "exorcising evil spirits", avoiding "spring fever" and making your baby safe and healthy.

Dai Chun Chicken is an ancient traditional folk culture that spreads in rural areas of China. Every spring, people sew colored cotton cloth and cotton into rooster ornaments for good luck and pin them on children's sleeves or hats. They are called "spring chickens", commonly known as "spring chickens". When wearing it, men are required to be left and women are right, which means ample food and clothing, strong growth and good luck, and expresses the good wishes of working people in China to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome good luck.

Dai Chun chicken usually lasts for many days from the day of beginning of spring. In some areas of Shandong, spring chickens are thrown away on the Lantern Festival or the 16th day of the first month to catch the temple fair. Because expelling five poisons such as centipede, scorpion, toad, snake, wasp or dragonfly is a very important theme in folk art, and chicken can subdue these five poisons, so spring chicken has become a talisman for children, pinning their good wishes that children will not be harmed by any poisonous insects. This is also closely related to climate, soil and ecological environment. Because after beginning of spring, the climate became warmer, and all kinds of poisonous insects appeared, so let the children pray to avoid poisonous insects. As for throwing spring chickens, it symbolizes throwing away diseases, just like the custom of flying kites and cutting lines to let go of bad luck in some areas; People believe that a broken kite can take away diseases, and so does its moral.