Cockfighting is an ancient way of folk entertainment in China, in the early years, almost all over the world there is a tradition of cockfighting, in our country, cockfighting entertainment flourished in the Tang, the Northern Song Dynasty prevailed in Kaifeng, from the princes and nobles down to the common people, are to fight for fun, the sun sinks on the moon and fight cocks, drunk to ask the sky high or low and other ancient poems depicted the lively scene of cockfighting at that time. In recent years, when I was traveling in the ancient village of Dayuwan in Wuhan, I accidentally saw 2 old people from Henan setting up a stage to fight cocks here.
Dayu Bay is located in Shuangquan Village, Mulan Township, Huangpi District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, 68 kilometers away from Wuhan City. Dayuwan Village was founded in the second year of Ming Hongwu (1369), among the existing hundreds of households, there are more than 40 ancient houses left over from the Ming and Qing dynasties, which have been developed as a national 4A-level tourist attraction, and tourists can enter the village for 60 yuan tickets.
Don't look at the small village of Dayu Bay is not large, but walking into the village, in addition to looking at its old Huipai architectural houses, you can also see acrobatics, puppets and other performances, the most attractive, is cockfighting. In a small area in the village, a rectangular table is a ring, surrounded by stools for tourists, all paved with red carpets. Three chickens in cages, when a guest comes, come out regularly to participate in the fight. The tamers of the 3 chickens are 2 sixty-year-old people from Henan.
In winter, there are not many tourists in Dayu Bay, so it is more convenient to shoot the scene of 2 chickens fighting at close range. Only to see 2 old men each take out the chicken from the cage, stand on the opposite position of the table, gently placed on the ring, a simple action, the 2 chickens will stand tall and chest up together and look at each other coldly.
According to the old man in Henan, these 3 chickens belong to the Vietnamese chicken breed, which he bought for more than 1,000 yuan each. The old man said that it is a cockfighting breed, but in the later stage, it must be trained to have combat effectiveness, he said that taming them, but it is much more difficult than training dogs, chickens are not as high as dogs, do not like to communicate with people, I have a strong personality.
Vietnamese cockfighting features, high thighs slender, few feathers, fierce looks, eyes are small, red crown is particularly red dazzling. As soon as these two black spotted chickens met, they rushed forward and rushed to the crown, neither of them wanted to look at anyone more, and they quickly became entangled.
One mighty, one jumping in the air, both chickens have the potential to overwhelm each other, making tourists look frightened. It is said that the reason why people see fighting cocks is mostly short hairs and rare, which is to reduce the chance of chicken feathers being bitten by the other side in the fight between the two sides.
The two sides fight to win or lose, losing by who beats who to the stage, and then the third chicken king comes on the field. Soon, one of them was beaten to the stage, and the third one came on. This third chicken, looking more fat than the first two, has better black and white feathers, and seems to have less fighting power from the eyes.
Don't underestimate the "black and white flower" posture, the comer is not on the face, it is on the field, found that the size of the last winner is not dominant, the eyes and eyes are opposite, the two quickly fight together.
Soon, black and white flowers took the advantage, and after a few rounds of fighting, they knocked black flowers off the stage, and black and white flowers won. Unfortunately, the second round was too short, and the tourists had not yet seen the addictive black flower and lost.
In order to let the visitors see it again, the old man put them both back in the ring and continued their performance.
This time, the 2 are more and more courageous, fighting inextricably, suddenly reminding people of the boxing champion tournament in the boxing ring, but the referee is 2 people old, when fierce, the second elder can not hold them. Looking at this posture, I actually photographed the scissor leg shape of a chicken leg in a triumphant posture. Refusing to say that a ferocious chicken can directly fight the other party to death on the battlefield shows the strength of this chicken.
China is an ancient country in the world that domesticates cockfighting, and the Central Plains Cockfighting is known as one of the "Four Great Fighting Cocks in China", and most of the Central Plains Cockfighting people are from Kaifeng. In the past, there were many jugglers in Henan, a province with a large population, relying on a stunt to break through the rivers and lakes, and Henan people also brought cockfighting to the whole country, but in recent years, it has been rare. How many years have you not seen cockfighting? Do you think this cruel game between chickens can be carried forward?