Oh, oh, oh...
The crisp cries of the big roosters in the chicken coop in the courtyard every morning will break through the silent night sky of the mountain village, and a rooster who starts to call the whole village will bark for a while.
In the 1970s, many places in the mountains were not yet electrified, there was no electric light, television, at night adults on the street chatting, children were tired of playing, eight or nine o'clock would lie down early into sleep.
When the rooster crows for the third time, the father will say, "The chicken has gotten up three times to work!" ”
Then you can hear footsteps and coughs on the street, and the day begins again.
In the era when clocks were not popular, the rooster chirping was the biological clock.
At least 50 years ago, in the countryside, farmers mastered the nightly sleep time by watching the "Big Dipper" and "Three Stars" in the sky, and relied on the rooster chirping to grasp the time when the daily labor began.
As the saying goes, "the chicken calls the world white three times" and "the rooster sings the world white".
The rooster barks three times a day in the early hours of the morning, three times from three to five.
Three is around 12:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m., fourth is 1:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m., and fifth is 3:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m.
When I was in elementary school, there was a text and a little book called "Chickens In the Middle of the Night."
It is said that in the old society, there was a landlord named Zhou Peel, in order to let the long-term workers get up early every day to work, every morning without waiting for the rooster to crow, he ran to the chicken coop to learn chicken barking, and later was found by the long-term workers, and beat him as a chicken thief and dragged him out of the chicken coop.
The chicken is a social animal, polygamous parent, and the rooster is responsible for command and decision-making tasks.
The chicken language expert explained that the rooster's chirping is also a declaration of sovereignty, reminding family members of its supremacy on the one hand, and warning neighboring roosters not to hit their families on the other hand. The rooster's call is closely related to the level of male hormones in their bodies, and the higher the male hormone level, the louder and deeper the call.
"Oh, oh, oh."
Listen carefully to the sound of each rooster chirping differently, just like a person talking and singing.
Roosters chirp not only in the early hours of the morning, but also during the day they will stand on high places or on the wall, stretching their necks and shouting with all their strength...
There are many poems about rooster chirping in history.
Bai Juyi's "Morning Rooster": "Buy the morning rooster to speak with the chicken, and often don't have to wait for idle chirping." Deep in the mountains and moons, the black wind and cold night, want to cry out in the near morning. ”
Xu Yin's "Chicken": "Twelve genera of ginseng, flowers into the feathers deep." Trustworthiness urges the sun, and can send Xiaoming. The crown is equipped with ruibi, and the claws cut gold. In vain, there is a sense of rice sorghum, how to repay the German tone.".
Wang Zun's "Chicken Song Song": "The golden distance flower crown is perched on the house, and the early morning screams in unison." The switch has its own livelihood, and there is no need to be enlightened to ru cry."
I have lived in the downtown area for decades and have not heard the sound of roosters chirping in the early morning.
Nowadays, the countryside rarely hears the rooster crowing, because the life span of the rooster is generally twenty years, many roosters are slaughtered that year, and few years and ten years of the old rooster is also a very important reason.
In the past, every household in the countryside raised chickens, and raising chickens was an important source of income, and almost every family had a few or a dozen chickens, which were free-range in the yard and orchard.
In spring, old hens are always seen leading a flock of milky yellow chicks and foraging around.
Grandma raised an old hen, and gave it a fashionable name "Royalist", the Royalist is a yellow feather, very large than the average old hen, and very obedient, when sleeping also jumped on the kang to sleep next to us children.
The countryside lacks courtyard walls and gates, and chickens often sneak through the fences to the streets in the spring, sneak into the vegetable fields in the summer to steal vegetable leaves, in the autumn into the crops to steal corn and sorghum, and in the winter run to the yard (threshing ground) to look for rice in the wheat straw and straw.
Chickens can fly, can go up to the wall and roof, but do not fly high and not far.
Watching the rooster fight is also a great joy of childhood.
Humans dress up beautifully and are generally women, while birds are just the opposite, and those with beautiful feathers are males.
Legend has it that long ago the rooster and the dog were relatives, the dog was the uncle of the chicken, and the dog used to wear a beautiful crown on its head. The king of the mountains worships Shou, and the deer wears very beautiful clothes, but there is no good hat on the head. The deer remembered that the dog had a beautiful top hat, but did not know the dog, he thought of his good friend rooster, let the rooster borrow it from the uncle of the dog, the rooster proudly put on the colorful red robe, but did not use the comb, it put the comb back on its head, the comb teeth facing the sky, and over the years, the comb grew in the meat. Since then, the rooster has a chicken crown on the head, the upper crown is a mahogany comb, and the lower crown is two red silk ribbons on the mahogany comb.
Yellow-red-black feathers, crown-like fiery crowns on the top of the head, like a red scarf or armor, small, round eyes, a pointed mouth, a long neck, two golden claws very sharp, and a tail high and upward.
Walking with his head held high, he swayed very majestically, like a cadre wearing four pockets walking leisurely.
The two roosters met by chance, for some reason, always staring at each other with round eyes and a sword-rattling posture.
After looking at each other for a while, they will shake their wings, and the hairs on their necks will explode and fly up in the air, pounce on each other, peck with their mouths, scratch with their feet, and bite each other's red crowns with their mouths during the stalemate stage.
After a few rounds, it is usually full of chicken feathers and blood.
At its most embarrassing, the losing side is almost naked and bald.
Looking at the hilarity, we little children always stand by and cheer for the two red-eyed roosters.
The rooster fights for a few minutes, and can last for several hours, basically losing both, scarred, covered in blood, and disheveled. I really admire the bravery, tenacity and combat effectiveness of the rooster.
Rooster fighting is also called cockfighting, in ancient times cockfighting is a kind of entertainment and competition, China's tang dynasty began to prevail in the folk.
Li Bai's "Ancient Wind" poem Yun: "The road meets the cockfighter, and the crown covers He Huihe." Sniffing in the rainbow, pedestrians are worried. ”
Ancient poems such as "The sun sinks and the moon rises and fights cocks, drunk does not ask the sky high or low", "Jindai Hugh frightens geese, Luo Yishang fights cocks" and other ancient poems vividly depict the lively scene of cockfighting.
Survival of the fittest is the most basic law of nature.
This is true of humans, it is true of animals, and it is even more true of livestock and poultry.
Fans who love football games know that the Nickname of the French team is the "Gaul Rooster".
Historically, the Roman Empire called this place in present-day France Gallia, gallus, a branch of the Gauls, the Celts, and in Latin, Gaul and rooster are the same word.
At first the French thought it was a humiliation. Later, this nickname was laughed at by the king of Gaul.
The rooster is a brave bird, who also announces, and is a friend of dawn. We're just roosters, aren't we? As a result, the rooster pattern appeared in the uniforms of the French army and other occasions, and the figure prints and coins were often accompanied by a rooster believed to represent France.
Gradually become part of the culture. It wasn't until the Renaissance rooster officially became a symbol of France.