Many animals, plants, and even in the eyes of people, is not a simple animals or plants, and fu, the different of the rich and profound symbolism.As aChinese zodiacThe animals, even more so.Such as tiger, of power and grandeur of cattle hard-working, monkey smart and lively, the dog's brave, loyal, and so on.Also, in the Chinese zodiac chicken has its own unique profound symbolism.

Therefore, the most significant symbolic chicken is trustworthy, punctual.The cock crow, means that the day will be bright, stretch, a bit further as symbol of liberation from darkness to light, such as "the cock crow, the morning and liberated" is one such progressive symbolic significance.

Chicken wake this time, for the ancients, its significance is too big.Ancient timing tool is very simple, such as clepsydra, and it is timing, but impossible to wake people up on time, no alarm clock later.The people don't know when to sleep.Then cock crow, told people dawn, should get ready to work.People often say "sunrise and make, whether", but can't wait for the sunrise, got up and the sun doesn't come out every day, rainy weather will lose the basis of the observation of the sun to set time.The chicken no matter hot summer cold winter, snow and rain or shine, it is keep your words this time, never be lazy.Can say, it is because of the difficult of the crow at dawn this time, the world came into being in a new day of fireworks and vitality.

The second symbolic of a chicken is ordinary and vulnerability.

Chicken in daily life, almost everywhere.Its reproduction ability, high survival rate, no special requirements to the environment, no matter where can be raised.As the saying goes, scarcity value.Animals as well, such as panda, because too few, so very precious, because is only in China, so it is also regarded as national treasure.There are some other animals, not a national treasure, but because of too little endangered, so it is forbidden to kill as the protection of rare animals.Chicken is impossible to enjoy this treatment.It is too much, so be disdained.Moreover, chicken as birds, its ability to fly greatly degraded.Than other birds can freely fly the blue sky;Running on the ground action than horse dog's quick dexterity, so the chicken is very ordinary.It is also so with ordinary, popularization and vulnerability of symbolism.

Chicken is very ordinary, all day, looking for food, eat pecked the east side to the west, though very hard, and not comfortable life.The ordinary characteristics of chicken was also used to describe a similar fate, called "grilled chicken".Mean this person staying busy, like grilled jidong west peck, in the end can only talk to subsistence, cannot enjoy precious glory.One story says, there was a rich man, please his fortune, the results of the rich life is not good, only a "grilled chicken".Good fortune teller said, however, that the rich live, because live gokseong (hubei gucheng county), grilled chicken in gokseong steak, natural food and clothing and worry, so the rich can enjoy precious.Rich man said, so, if he doesn't live in gokseong not the poor?Tell fortune a Sir To say so.Don't want to the rich man didn't believe in fortune teller thought: don't move out gokseong is poor?So he don't his family moved to the county, the results in a few years, sure enough, hewing to finally live a very poor day.This is just a folk story, not real, but it combine with this symbol of the ordinary meaning of chicken.

Compared with the weak, ordinary, chicken also has a good brave fight symbolic significance.

This is a meaning from the chicken.Chicken like fightingA fight, especially the cock, this also is a common phenomenon in our daily life.Two rooster meet, there is often a struggle, the hen between occasionally have to fight.

In order to watch the wonderful fighting cocks fight, people raise special cockfight.Ordinary tender chicken at ordinary times, when they fight, is also a tense, intrepid tenacious, fight fierce.People learn also inspired and encouraged, cockfighting brave good fight.This is an example in ancient Greece.The ancient greeks have long chicken game.One years BC, the Greek soldiers had a general rate into the front line to fighting the Persian army.Marching on the way, he saw two rooster in phase, the in the mind is not move, he thought, if a soldier's morale as tenacious as the cock, can certainly win the upcoming battle.So he ordered his team to stop, let the soldiers watching these two brave fighting cock.Sure enough, the soldiers inspired, is bravery in the battle, defeat wave.In order to commemorate the glorious victory.The king of Greece decided to from now on every year in Athens a cockfight general assembly.Cockfighting event throughout Greece soon, soon spread to the Mediterranean, the ancient Rome and other countries.Greek army this victory, is in line with the "both sides meet yong sheng", but "yong" is inspired from the chicken, chicken is not always weak.

The fourth symbolism of a chicken is evil spirits, to disaster, gods.

Chicken divination sheds are found everywhere in the world, with the gods.The ancients also commonly used chicken exorcism and sacrifice.Kill a chicken exorcism witchcraft, also is a kind of superstition.As early as the pre-qin period, chicken and chicken blood exorcism of useful activities.The ancients thought, chicken and chicken blood has the spirits of evil to evil.

The ancients to sacrifice very seriously.In numerous sacrifice sacrifices, chicken is one of them.Chicken worship fathers, are still popular in some areas.

Chicken is also used in judgment.The jingpo is useful crow as the way to god.Dispute both sides with a live rooster to the prescribed destination, first by the wizard to chant buddhist scripture, never put off till tomorrow what you can read both longitudinal and chicken, about chirping to match, first name is lost, after the call or not call for the win.

With chicken divination, is symbol of chicken gods.In addition to the divination, across all ethnic groups and different egg bligh.If asked to egg bligh disease in southern yunnan.When people thought that the ghost appendage, useeggsA rolling brush in patients that can make the ghost form attached in the egg, the egg into the pot after cooked to wizards experience, for good or ill luck.

Yao nationality people do any thing all want to use the egg divination.Building, such as selective in first choose one egg, wear a small hole, the person to write on the eggshell four words, goods, livestock, ghost, point of fire, to its detonation, situation to decide XiongJi opsins outflow.If the protein touch on one word, the thought foundation, building before and after the family will be more pain;Touch on its word, is thought to make money, to make a living in the future will be difficult;With animal words, thought make cattle, cattle in the future will not be prosperous;Touch on the ghost word, argue that making the ghosts, will make the god of ancestors and all kinds of bliss displeasure caused by emergencies.Meet the above situation, as a bad omen, to immediately stop don't choose the foundation.

About the chicken can exorcism to disaster, a rooster crows can also drive a ghost.

In folk legend, the most afraid of ghost hear chicken, because they can only activities in the night, and crow, call, on behalf of the dawn, dawn, all the demons will comes to nothing.And this superstition origin early.Jiangnan people on New Year's day that day "stickers door on chicken" suspension cable on it, peach wood charms against evil in the next, a ghost of fear.Chicken picture posted on the door, a ghost is not the door, pure is afraid of ghost hear chicken calls, the moral of this superstition until the early liberation, the old people still have this idea;Adults often told the children in the evening if met a ghost, as long as learn called crow, you can put away.(/ shengxiao/Chinese zodiac)

In a word, the chicken has its unique symbolic significance, people deduce from animal characteristics of chicken, lenovo out its symbolic significance.With other animal symbolism, but also praise, depending on the different context and occasions.