Rooster symbols in China

Study a map of China and you’ll notice that the country resembles a rooster, with the head lying in the northeast crowing towards the northern Pacific, its belly lying in the sutheast facing the island of Taiwan, and its tail towards Xinjiang and Tibet. Most importantly, the rooster’s wings are in the resource rich basins of the Yangtze and Yellow River.

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Fowl feasts

A reason why the birds are so popular, though rarely anyone’s absolute favorite food, is their relatively leanwhite meat has mild flavor, lending it to any kind of cooking method.

Shopping in the Year of the Chicken

Spring Festival is a time for arts and crafts and at markets, street merchants and department stores, you can find some specially made to welcome the Year of the Chicken.

Name that chicken

Though we have many species of chickens today, mostly produced by the means of crossbreeding and even gene-modification, only 11 species are native to China. This means they are unique in gene structure to China, according to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science.

龙凤呈祥 long feng cheng xiang – an auspicious match of dancing dragon and phoenix

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the King Mu of the State of Qin had a little daughter, called Nong Yu.

凤凰涅磐 feng huang nie pan – Phoenix Nirvana

According to the legends of ancient China, there lived a magical bird, called a phoenix. When it reached the age of 500, it made a pyre of fragrant wood and burnt itself for the sufferings and hatred of reality. Then from the dead ashes, it returned to life, immortal and with a fresh and extraordinary beauty.

Characteristics of people born in the Year of Rooster

Overview: conservative, warm-hearted, beautiful, honest, and humorous, but sometimes arrogant and idolatrous.

Fortune in the Year of Rooster

Overview: this year, great conflict and contradictions will emerge in the lives of people born in the year of the rooster.

Rooster rituals

The rooster is the only domesticated fowl used to symbolize a lunar year. According to ancient legend, that is because when the mythical Jade Emperor of Heaven was creating the zodiac, he only took into consideration animals that made contributions to human society and not domesticated creatures like roosters.