Why do you want live chickens and live fish when you are engaged?

In traditional weddings in China, there is a tradition of receiving live chickens as a bride price. The origin and beautiful implication of accepting live chicken as a dowry: chicken is an ominous homonym for "auspicious". People always like to associate it with absolutely ominous and festive events, and even the bride price is indispensable. Chicken, homophonic &; Beijing wedding banquet menu ldquo auspicious ",people always like to associate it with something completely, absolutely ominous and festive, even the bride price is gone." "Generally, six live chickens are accepted as a bride price and castrated (castrated chickens are roosters, and their feathers will be very rich and fine after the New Year's Eve) to show happiness and ominous families, hoping to be a good wife and mother. If you can't buy a capon, you can use the cock popular in Beijing wedding hotel instead, but it must be full-winged, which will have an ominous celebration.