Not black, no blowing, no basic reversal article for traffic, the purpose of the chicken barking in the middle of the night is to extend the working time, which is very credible.
If you don't think it's credible, let's look at a few similar examples, both in literature and in real life:
Lao She's "Camel Xiangzi" wrote: "Mr. and mrs. (Yang family) always think that the servants are domestic slaves, and they have not taken the lives of the poor, which is not enough to be worthy of the wages";
Zhang Ailing wrote in "Half Life": "I always like to wait until five minutes before work, and suddenly call you away, there is something important to explain to you." I'm afraid that the boss is all this temper";
Some enterprises openly regard "996" as a corporate culture;
An inland province once asked all civil servants to "take the initiative" to work overtime on Saturdays;
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These examples are all hoping to extend working hours to satisfy the psychology of superiors (leaders, masters) - in fact, when working hours, the work efficiency is not necessarily high. But people with small patterns don't see this.
Of course, Zhou Peeling is a small pattern, and it can be imagined: he needs to personally supervise the labor of the peasants, and he will not be a big landlord like Nan Batian. Small landlords, on the other hand, find it difficult to get rid of the ideological limitations of small peasant consciousness.
Clocks and watches in that era were luxury mouths, and small landlords were of course reluctant to spend money to buy watches, and grasping the time was to watch the sky and listen to the chickens. Zhou's learning to bark chickens caused the chickens in the whole village to cry, so that the peasants mistakenly thought that the time to get up and work was up and work, and they would be put into work earlier than normal time. And the time of finishing work after dark will not change. So their working days were longer.
When employees work long hours, the boss feels that they have taken advantage.
In modern enterprises, there is no actual need for overtime, perhaps it is not a work force, can not improve efficiency. But when doing farm work, especially when the landlord himself goes to the field, it is not easy for the peasants to be lazy. As time goes on, more work increases, and harvest achievements increase. The income of weekly peeling has increased.
If you want to say that when the writer Zhou Yubao created "Chicken Crying in the Middle of the Night", there was no literary processing, exaggeration, and fiction, I don't know.
But if you want to "chicken in the middle of the night" there is no logical reason, whether there is a realistic truth, I think there is a complete one - not Zhou Peel, or Zhang Peel, Wang Peel. And not only before liberation, but also not extinct to this day.