Tujia people call kicking shuttlecock "kicking chicken". During the Spring Festival, young men and women kick chickens together. One person kicks the "chicken" and everyone fights. Whoever receives the "chicken" can chase anyone with grass. Young men and women often chase their lovers with grass. In the future, "kicking the chicken" will become the medium of love.
On October 1st of the lunar calendar, some places in Henan will kill chickens to scare ghosts. Legend has it that Tomb-Sweeping Day will collect the terrible release ghosts in the coming year. People think that ghosts are afraid of chicken blood, which can ward off evil spirits, so they kill chickens on October 1 to scare ghosts and make little devils afraid to come out. As the saying goes, "October 1st, kill the goose that lays the golden egg."
In some areas of Shandong, there is a wedding custom of "holding a chicken". When getting married, the woman chooses a boy to hold a hen and leaves with the sedan chair to bid farewell. Because chicken is homophonic with "auspiciousness", it is auspicious to hold a picture of chicken. In addition, there was a custom of raising "long-lived chickens" in ancient times. When approaching the wedding, the man should prepare a red rooster, and the woman should prepare a fat chicken. The hen says that the bride is a "lucky person". When getting married, the rooster prepared by the woman must be led by her underage brother or other boys, set out with the sedan chair and arrive at the man's house before the rooster crows. People think that if the rooster doesn't sleep and the hen doesn't sleep, it is to overwhelm the rooster with momentum. Then, the man gives the rooster to the person holding the rooster, ties the rooster and the hen together on the leg of the table, and beats the rooster from time to time until the rooster faints, which is a symbol of the wife's surrender to her husband. After that, the two chickens are not allowed to be killed, so they are called long-lived chickens. In Zhejiang, the marriage custom of "killing chickens" is popular. The groom goes to the bride's house to get married, and the woman's house spreads a piece of white cloth on the ground, so that the groom can kill chickens on it. Chicken blood can't drip on white cloth, or a few drops will be fined several glasses of wine. When killing the chicken, the woman's family deliberately collided with the groom, but the experienced groom handled it well and wouldn't let the woman succeed.