It is said that chickens live only six or seven years, which is not true.
Because in my old house there is a black old hen, at least ten years old. Every time the son and daughter-in-law grandchildren back home, mom will point to a group of chickens raised at home and ask, "want to eat which, let your father killed stew on, especially that big old black, are several years do not lay eggs". I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it.
The only big old black, Xu is really old, walking a swing, no hurry, not slow, not afraid of life, the children put the bread and melon seeds and other snacks scattered on the ground, she will be clucking to eat, the children went over to touch a little bit, she did not hide, not like the rooster as blowing up the hairs, there is a big mountain collapsed in front of the face does not change the color of the model.
"Big old black" is the name given to her by her mom, and we have heard it more often than not. I'm not sure if you don't believe me, every chicken in the house has a name, there are small yellow, big yellow, bald hair, black flower, lame, bald tail, crooked neck and so on, it's really hard for her how to give dozens of chickens to come up with. My family's chickens never shut the cage, their nest is mom picked up the broken wood seven put together their own group of knocking up, early in the morning to open the nest, will be late in the evening when the chickens will enter the inside of their own, mom went over to point out a little number on the good. But occasionally there will always be some mischievous, chickens as well as people.
Mom rushed into the house with a stick in her hand, yelling, "Come out, come out, A-hwa is gone."
At this point, Dad is usually either sleeping or watching TV, and I'm probably reading or doing my homework, so I'm a bit confused, and we're like, "Who's gone? Who's missing?"
"Fa!"
"Who's Flora? Is she from our village?"
"It's the chickens, my chicks didn't come home."
Halo! Then our masters were called out on orders to search for chickens.
2. Mom's gentlemanly behavior
For as long as I can remember, Mom has never eaten a chicken in her 30 years of life.
Dad ate chickens and loved them. So dad often kill mom raised chicken, but also mom braised smothered stewed slippery fried a variety of styles made into wine dishes. I was quite like when I was a child, my hometown in the countryside circulated a saying that children have to eat the rooster's crown, grow up will be able to be an official, so I ate more than ten years of the crown, and full of China's wanderings for more than ten years, finally determined to be the old family members to fool.
It's no wonder that people have been so hard-pressed to find a way to make a living, and the crowns are the same as those of the officials, so it's a good thing that they've been sent to the countryside, and whether or not they can make it happen is a matter of personal endeavor. Similar cases are numerous, like in the past, the village stickers on the New Year's Eve, there will be many bats, there is a blessing of the metaphor; sometimes will draw an elephant and a chicken, even up is auspicious; the most famous when that the word of blessing upside down allusion, even now on New Year's Eve, families like to put the word of blessing upside down sticker.
Then I eat chicken crowns, dad with chicken head with wine, a chicken what is not wasted. Later, the book read a miscellaneous, know that the rooster head lived in the Qin Hui, once told Dad, Dad more enthusiastic about this matter, called "justice, for the people to get rid of the harm". I thought this is how many years ago, the dynasty has changed several, but also what justice ah?
Perhaps by the influence of mom, I twenty more when the years are not eat chicken, so three or five years of light, I can not say what is the reason. The first time I saw the movie was when I was a kid, and it was the first time I'd ever seen it.
Mom never killed the chicken. Although the family's meals are mom has been doing, but the chicken and fish and other living things mom never hands to kill, every time is dad waving a kitchen knife in front. I later quite like to cook, like a person to drum up a few small dishes, a cup of wine, but the same, I never move these live animals. Even the freshest live shrimp I am waiting for them to die as ingredients, some of the vitality of the pot can be put on a two or three days, fortunately, no one at home to eat eels and loaches and so on, or wait for them to hang up on their own do not know when to wait.
"Gentlemen far from the kitchen" I always thought it was the old hole said, passed down to the present seems to have become a big man to avoid cooking the best excuse, I have been wondering how the old hole this "food is not too fine, not too fine," how the Lord will be such a tune, and then read the "Mengzi", only to realize that the "Mengzi", and then the "Mengzi", and then the "Mengzi", and then the "Mengzi", and then the "Mengzi", and then the "Mengzi". Read "Mengzi", only to realize that they are shallow and sparse, the original text is "the gentleman of the animal also, see its life, can not bear to see its death; hear its voice, can not bear to eat its meat. This is why the gentleman is far away from the kitchen (Mengzi - King Hui Liang)."
Mom so many years do not eat chicken seems to have found the reason, elementary school are not finished she may not go to read the "Mengzi" for the rest of her life, but its behavior is real to tell the future generation, what is called a gentleman's style!
3. Chicken's Ass and Schooling
Because the chickens in the house are free-range, and Mom never withholds food from them, they live a good life, and the quality of their eggs is high.
Mom saved up the eggs in cartons, and she didn't have to go out, so people from the countryside would come and buy them, and sometimes when there weren't enough eggs in the house, she would tell them to come back in a few days. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do, but I think I'm going to be able to do it," she said, "and I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it. So how many eggs under how many days are counted, I do not believe in the beginning but also verified a few times, all to Mom's victory ended, and now I think of it still feel magical. Rural eggs are sold regardless of the pound, is calculated according to each, last year when I went home, eggs about 1.8 yuan each. This is a very important source of income for the family.
When I was in school, my mom used to say, "The chicken's ass is the only thing that kept your brother and sister from going to school". Most of the pocket money came from this, and even in order to save a few more eggs, mom herself rarely ate eggs, but the rest of the family ate whatever they wanted.
In the early years of the countryside like to raise dogs, the dog used to run around, and then there was a period of time mom's eggs are always lost, mom spent more than half a month of the time to extract cocoon, the culprit is the family's big flower dog, so the fate of the family dog has changed since then, can only be accompanied by a rope all day long.
The sad thing is that our brothers and sisters finally failed the chicken butt, are with the beautiful ivory tower rubbing shoulders.
4. Rarely a chicken
My daughter is growing up every day.
Every year in the spring, the square in this small city, there will be many vendors to the chickens painted in green colors for sale, every time my daughter saw it on the road.
I will tell her that it is not a toy, it is life, life is equal, we do not have the right to intervene in the life of another complete life, not to mention that I can conclude that it is almost impossible to feed it, and this is the disregard for life, is a crime! Maybe my daughter's little mind can't figure out why people who sell whole boxes of baby chicks are so comfortable with their lives, but buying one is a crime? In her world, the pig should be Piggy, the dog should be the Want Want team, the chicken, well, it is still chicken.
My explanations are getting more and more pale and weak, and finally I can only say that if you can never eat chicken legs again, then buy it.
This time I think her little head is again between the chicken legs and chickens fighting, and finally the fire of food was successfully ignited by me, I can pull her away.
The most recent time I came home, my mom would still point to the big old black and ask me to eat it, I still shook my head, "If you don't lay eggs, then don't lay eggs, just keep it, how much can a chicken eat, you can see that it can't walk fast enough, and that year, it also made a contribution to our family, we can't break down the bridge and chill the hearts of the other chickens aca." I clearly saw mom gently sigh of relief, and then mom also did not forget to fierce dad a glance, it seems that dad hit the big old black idea is not a day or two things.
5. Chicken's past and present life
Modern people more give the chicken some other meaning, but in the past, the status of the chicken is quite high, it is said that the dragon's head of the pair of children's majestic horns or from the rooster that borrowed, as for the smell of the chicken dance, the rooster sings the world white and other allusions is more numerous.
The Han Dynasty Han Ying made "Han Shi Wai Zhuan" text said: "Chicken has five virtues: the first wearing a crown, the text is also; foot wrestling distance, martial arts, the enemy dares to fight, courage, see food call, benevolence, also; the vigil is not lost, the letter is also."
Can get a virtue has been famous in history, such as Fan of the Covenant, Tailgate, set of five virtues in a person is a phoenix, visible people are often worse than chickens.
Listen to the old Guo (Degang) of the comedy, once he said, "life is hard to get a chicken", the listener did not laugh, laugh after the rest I suddenly remembered the old home, there are still some carefree chickens, one of which is called the big old black ...... turn of the eye and almost a year has not been Home, the time is in a hurry sigh, can only quietly whisper to myself, "big old black, home can be well?"
June 10, 2018