Draw a chicken
Author Tang Yin? the Ming Dynasty
The red crown on the head doesn't need to be specially cut, and the cock is white and feathered.
It didn't dare to cry all its life. When it was called, the door of every family was opened.
Translation:
Its head is bright red as safflower, and its hat in full bloom is naturally uncut. This is a white chicken, so it is covered with snow. He never dared to talk casually in his life, but when he shouted, thousands of families opened their doors and windows.
The background of painting chicken:
Painting a Chicken is a seven-character quatrain written by Tang Yin, a poet in Ming Dynasty. This poem depicts the strength of the rooster and writes its nobility. From this poem, we can also see that the poet's writing characteristics of "not avoiding oral English" are very rich in children's songs.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the poet wrote a poem for a cock he drew. After painting this tall rooster, the poet wrote this poem. At that time, when the internal struggle of the ruling class was rampant, he expressed his will and described the cock with white hair and red crown in the painting with popular and fluent words.