Is it okay to kill a chicken on the 27th day of the lunar month?

No chickens can be killed. You can kill chickens only on the 27th day of the Lunar New Year.

Killing seven not kill eight Han taboo customs, popular in Hunan Yongzhou area.

So why kill chickens on the twenty-seventh which? This is in fact still get harmonized, "chicken" with "auspicious", there is auspicious, auspicious meaning.

The annual ballad says: "Lunar New Year's Eve, slaughter chicken, catch the big market", that is to say that this day in addition to the slaughter of their own poultry, but also on the store to catch the market, centralized purchasing.

Traditional folklore in the Lunar New Year on the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth of these two days to focus on bathing, laundry, legend has it that on this day bathing can be removed from the year's bad luck, wash away a year's worth of disease, therefore, rich or poor, everyone in order to prepare for the coming year's new year and bathing and dressing, which also has a "twenty-seventh wash of the guilt of the disease, twenty-eighth wash of the scruffy! This is why there is a proverb that says, "Wash away the guilt and illness on the 27th, and wash away the dirt on the 28th.