No feast without chicken, no god without chicken. In our land, if you have a wedding banquet, you can't have a boiled chicken. Without it, there can be no banquet and no tribute. Every banquet must have chicken, so there is a saying that "no chicken is a feast". Sacrifice to the gods and ancestors, you must use chickens, but also need male castrated chickens, and neither can mothers. In the past, people were generally not very rich. Chicken is considered to be more advanced meat than pork. Pork is often eaten, but chicken is rarely eaten every day. Unless there is a wedding reception, guests are invited, or there is a festival, if you want to kill chickens to worship your ancestors, you can take the opportunity to eat chickens. Not as rich as people nowadays, it is not surprising that eating chicken can be as common as eating Chinese cabbage. Food is the most important thing for the people, and people can also use chickens to worship their ancestors on festivals, which not only satisfies people's reverence for their ancestors, but also makes people full. This is a win-win situation.

People in China are particularly awed by the sky, the earth, the sun and the moon, especially the worship of the moon, which leads to the worship of the moon on the first and fifteenth day of each month, because the first day is a new moon and the fifteenth day is a full moon, which are two characteristics of the moon. This is enough to show people's attention and awe of the moon. China has a lunar calendar, that is, a monthly calendar, which shows people's reverence for the moon. In the past, people who believed in God would burn incense and light candles to kill chickens and worship God in Yue Bai on the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Speaking of the first day, the most important thing is the first day of the first month of the New Year, which is the beginning of a year, a month and a day. It is the beginning of Sanyang and Qitai. Fifteenth, especially on August 15th of Mid-Autumn Festival, the autumn is crisp and the moon is the brightest and roundest. Therefore, the first day of the first month is a big festival, and August 15th is also a big festival, which has become a traditional big festival. Killing chickens and offering sacrifices is inevitable. This is not only a custom, but also a concrete manifestation of reverence and respect for the ancestors of heaven, earth, sun and moon.

Do you mean August 15? Traditional festivals in China. This is a festival to celebrate the harvest, just like Thanksgiving in America. Americans have a bumper harvest. Everyone should thank God for giving them rich fruits. In China, the Mid-Autumn Festival in August is the harvest season. Agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry have both achieved bumper harvests. So every family kills chickens and buys meat to make moon cakes. When the moon comes out at night. Put the altar in the yard. There are grapes, roast chicken, grapes and various fruits on the moon cake. It's called the full moon. It also seems to be thanking heaven and earth for giving us a bumper harvest. Meanwhile, we hope to have a bumper harvest next year. Friend, a person can't live without gratitude. Always think of heaven and earth, parents, the country and the public. Don't think you earned it. There is no heaven and earth, no country, no public. We can't do it separately.

Festivals and solar terms in China are all related to eating.

Because food is the most important thing for people.

For example, we should eat jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, rice cakes, wonton, fish, chicken, sausages, bacon and so on. The Spring Festival is a time for family reunion. Families get together for a reunion dinner. These foods are very particular, which means that the next year will be smooth and healthy, more than one year.

Tomb-Sweeping Day eats traditional foods such as mugwort, prickly heat, steamed mushrooms, steamed buns, eggs and Qingming rice.

Eat zongzi, realgar wine, Monopterus albus, salted duck eggs, tea eggs, garlic eggs, oil cakes and other foods during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Eat cold noodles, porridge, duck eggs, dog meat, etc. on the solstice in summer. There is a saying in Lingnan: Eat dogs from summer to day, and the west wind goes around the field. Zhejiang people want to eat three yellows: yellow rice wine, yellow croaker and eel.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival, we eat moon cakes, Osmanthus Jelly, osmanthus wine and snails in Guangdong and other places.

Jiaozi, white radish, mutton, walnut, eight-treasure porridge, glutinous rice balls, angelica and ginger mutton soup, etc.

It is timely to eat different foods in different solar terms and festivals. The ancients in China paid great attention to the way of keeping in good health, so it has been passed down from generation to generation that what to eat during the festival is the most beneficial to the human body.

What festivals and solar terms eat also has certain implications.

For example, eating fish on New Year's Eve means more than one year. Eating glutinous rice balls in the morning of the first day of junior high school is robbing treasures, and eating rice cakes is getting taller every year. Zongzi is eaten in memory of Qu Yuan. The moral of eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival is family reunion.

This is a custom, a culture and a tradition handed down by our Chinese nation for 5,000 years. There are delicious foods during the Spring Festival and the holidays. Do you feel happy or not?

Look at the customs of various regions. Not every region kills chickens on 15 every month.

Killing chickens on holidays is a custom and culture, which means auspiciousness besides eating. "Chicken" means "good luck" and eating chicken means good luck. Many festivals have the custom of killing chickens, which is also a kind of sacrifice.