"No feast without chicken" is their mantra at the dinner table. Whether it is a family banquet, ancestor worship or a banquet, chicken is the main dish. In "Historical Records: The Benji of Xiaowu", there is a record about "chicken divination", one of the ancient divination methods: ancient people worshiped gods and used the shape of chicken eye bones to divine good and bad luck. In the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan also wrote a poem about worshiping the water god using corn bones to predict the year. For thousands of years, chicken has represented blessings of good fortune, joy, beauty and rich nutritional value. Therefore, there must be chicken on their dinner table.
To eat Wenchang chicken, you must go to its birthplace. Wenchang chicken is the most famous traditional dish in Wenchang area and the first of the four famous dishes in Hainan. There is a saying in Hainan that there is no feast without chicken. , is a must-try delicacy for everyone traveling to Hainan. At present, Hainan has formed many tourism industries including marine tourism, health and wellness tourism, cultural and sports tourism, exhibition tourism, rural tourism, forest ecological tourism, characteristic town tourism, shopping tourism, industrial tourism, special tourism and other all-region tourism.
There is no banquet without chicken, and there is no feast without fish." The common saying means that without chicken and fish, there can be no banquet. Source: Nie Jidong's "Folk Customs About Carp and Its Causes": "Fish, Yu, homophonic, Chinese folk At grand festive banquets such as festivals and weddings, in order to express auspiciousness and wealth, chicken and fish are absolutely indispensable. Therefore, for a long time, there has been a saying that "no feast is complete without chicken, and no banquet is complete without fish". ”
Eating chicken is also a feeling and culture in Hainan. “Wenchang Chicken” is the most representative among the many varieties of chicken in Hainan. It is known for its smooth and tender meat, strong fragrance, fat but not greasy. The first of Hainan's "Four Famous Dishes" is a must-try delicacy for every tourist to Hainan. "Hainan Chicken Rice" made with chicken oil and chicken soup is famous at home and abroad, and has become a hometown taste that Hainanese tourists can't give up. . Many outsiders who settled and worked in Hainan were affected by it and also had the habit of eating "chicken".