When Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty was the king of Ying, the lovely people of the birds and beasts of the Diyuan Domain, in order to prepare for ten plays, so draw ten play pictures, spread in the present, in the picture of Jiugao priest for the crane, Mr. Xuansu for the white pheasant, Changming Duwei for the chicken, and then the folk then took "Changming Duwei" as another name for the chicken.

Most people believe that the rooster is a mascot that can ward off evil spirits, so there are many other names, but my favorite is Changming Duwei, because this name can fully reflect the characteristics and status of the rooster.

In some places, every household will keep a red rooster to protect the house from disasters, and in some places, when the coffin is placed, a white rooster will be placed under it as a guardian spirit. It is rumored that the rooster was transformed by the scattering of Yuheng Xing, so its eyes can ward off evil and drive away evil.

My friend Xiao Tao's family is in the countryside, and when he was twelve or thirteen years old, he was almost hooked by a ghost, but fortunately, the big rooster that has been raised at home for many years saved his life.

Xiaotao's hometown is not too far from my hometown, they are all rural areas that belong to the border between the two provinces, how to say, compared to other places, it will be a little chaotic, and the economy and other aspects are also much behind. His home was on the edge of the village, and there were large areas of farmland near the house, and Xiao Tao lived with his grandparents at that time, which was also the standard configuration for left-behind children in the countryside at that time. Older people in the countryside believe in more things, which are superstitions in today's parlance, but in the countryside they are unspeakable rules.

It just so happens that there are many legends and taboos in Xiao Tao's hometown, but Xiao Tao, a twelve or thirteen-year-old child, will care about these, and only know where to play where it is fun. I usually like to go to these places in the fields and rivers, and I am not less scolded by my grandparents, but the old man just loves the child, and the scolding is endless, but he is reluctant to fight.

These taboos that are almost rumored include the reservoir haunted ghost to catch the stand-in, the Wong Tai Sin to catch the child to eat, the lonely ghost and the charming ghost, etc., it is hard to say whether it is true or not, but every year there will always be a few people drowned, people hit the wall and other strange things. As a left-behind child, Xiao Tao, even if he is scared when he listens, once he plays, he has no scruples.

In the late summer and early autumn of this year, Xiao Tao took advantage of the fact that his grandparents were not paying attention and asked a few friends to go swimming in the village's reservoir. Not long after, the children returned to the shore tired of swimming, exerting too much energy and feeling hungry. At this moment, a friend suddenly proposed to go to a nearby fruit field to see if he could find some fruit to eat.

This fruit field is not far from their village, and it is full of seasonal fruits planted by the villagers, among which the peach trees are the most numerous, and the large, sweet peaches hang all over the branches, which is especially gratifying.

In the countryside, the burial is generally buried in their own fields, so most of the fields will have burial graves, and this fruit field has the most graves, plus the peach tree attracts ghosts, so the people in the village will not come here to wander around if they have nothing to do. Coincidentally, a woman from a neighboring village hanged herself from the peach grove here a few years ago, which made the already bad reputation of the peach grove even more daunting.

There is a lot of strength in people, and Xiao Tao has a total of five people who looked at the daylight, and they didn't think much about it, and they all agreed to go around and find fruits to eat. In this way, a group of twelve or thirteen-year-old children walked to the fruit field with laughter and laughter, and after a while, they came to the fruit forest. Looking at the big peach on the peach tree in front of him, he was afraid that something was thrown away, and he rushed in to eat it.

The peach trees are generally not tall, and the peaches on the trees are very large, so the children pick one from the east and one from the west to walk inside. Just like Sun Monkey entered the Pan Tao Garden, which one to take a bite of, the sweet one was thrown away, and there were many more anyway. As they went deeper and deeper, they forgot the time while being happy, and slowly the sun set in the west, making the dense peach groves darker and darker.

Xiao Tao was the first to react, and was about to find a way to go back, saying that it was a road, but in fact, there was no road here, it was just a passage between trees. At this time, some friends had lost the courage when they came, and remembered what the village adults had said about this fruit forest, and fear rushed to their brains for a while.

"Tao'er, it's getting dark, let's go quickly!"

Someone proposed, everyone immediately agreed, and a few children hurriedly walked back, but the strange thing is that they walked for a long time, but they couldn't get out of this peach forest. It wasn't until later that the five people were tired, so they leaned on a peach tree to rest for a while, and I don't know how long they sat down, Xiao Tao heard someone calling his name in a daze, and in a trance, he felt that this voice was very familiar, and suddenly, there was a "pop" sound in his ears.

The hot pain on his face made Xiao Tao clear in an instant, and then he found that there were several uncles and uncles from the same village around, Xiao Tao covered his face and looked at the adults in front of him suspiciously.

"This kid is still fascinated, if we come a little later, I'm afraid my life will be lost! Look back, you guys have already tied the slings! ”

An uncle in front of him said as he pulled Xiao Tao's ear with his hand and turned it back, Xiao Tao turned his head so hard that he couldn't even feel the pain in his ear. I saw two ropes hanging on the two trunks of the peach tree, one east and one west, tied quite strongly, looking at this strange scene, cold sweat instantly flowed down Xiao Tao's neck to the back.

It turned out that when it was almost dark, Xiaotao's grandmother saw that the child did not come back, so she went to the house of the child who Xiaotao usually played well and asked, and just asked about the child's home who also did not go home, and everyone found that several children did not go home. After some searching, several uncles and uncles found them in the fruit grove, and only then did they discover this strange scene just now.

Fortunately, it came in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable, and the next person was also found, and the adults turned on their flashlights and went home with these naughty children. After returning home, everyone was a little scared because of the evil nature of this matter, and several uncles and uncles said that they would go out to find Mr. tomorrow morning to take a look, so that nothing would happen to them at that time.

After saying that, the big guys dispersed, and Xiao Tao also followed his grandfather home, Xiao Tao's grandparents raised a few chickens and usually moved around the house. Strange to say, at this time, the only big red rooster in the flock of chickens for some reason followed Xiao Tao and kept "cluck~cluck~". The other chickens had already returned to the nest, but this rooster appeared behind Xiao Tao as if it had suddenly appeared, and Grandpa did not notice this strange phenomenon.

Listening to the "clucking" sound of the big rooster behind him, Xiao Tao began to panic in his heart, the kind of uncontrollable panic, like a mouse seeing a cat. Xiao Tao couldn't help but turn around and follow the sound to look over, at this moment, he suddenly saw the rooster fluttering towards him with his teeth and claws, and instantly Xiao Tao felt a pain in his fingers. The pain of these ten fingers connected to the heart made the whole person tremble, and the hand subconsciously fell out, and the big that pounced on him was also thrown out, and when he looked at his finger again, he found that the middle finger was already bleeding.

This rooster has been raised by grandparents for many years, and it should have been killed a long time ago, but Xiao Tao has always disagreed, because this rooster was specially bought by Xiao Tao's parents from the market to raise for themselves. I didn't expect this to be raised for many years, and because Xiao Tao likes it, grandparents also take special care of this big rooster, and other chickens may die at any time, so it has been living freely.

This big rooster is very spiritual, and he seems to know that he can live so freely because of Xiao Tao himself, and he is usually very close to Xiao Tao, and he is basically on call. I don't know what's going on today, I gave Xiao Tao this bite like crazy, and now the criticism that my grandparents had been brewing is gone. Grandpa blasted the big away, and then hurriedly took medicine to bandage Xiaotao, and grandma scolded angrily.

"This rooster is also weird today, is it crazy or whatever! No, I'll slaughter and eat meat in a while! ”

That being said, how can you catch a big with wings on this big night. There was nothing to say all night, but the next day there was an accident, someone knocked on the door early in the morning, and when I opened the door, I saw that it was a few partners who went to Taolin together yesterday, and they opened their mouths without waiting to enter the door.

"His aunt, your Xiaotao was okay last night, right?"

This sentence confused Grandma Xiaotao, and she was stunned for a few seconds before replying.

"No, I went home last night and ate and went to sleep."

"That's weird, our babies have been talking nonsense since last night, until now!"

I was wondering here, Xiaotao's grandfather also came out of the house, and when I heard that several children came back from the fruit forest, they all had a high fever and did not go away, and they were also puzzled by nonsense. After a while, Grandma Xiaotao slapped her thigh and said loudly.

"It's broken, maybe there's something dirty in the orchard and the children are coming home, hurry up and find Mr. to take a look, don't be hooked after a long time!"

After listening to it, everyone felt the seriousness of the matter, and the adults who found a few children yesterday came back to describe the situation, so they hurried to find Mr. to take a look. Soon, a grandfather in the same village who knew a little about this went to the homes of several children, saying that he was indeed fascinated by the hanging ghost in the peach forest, but the problem was not too big, and it should be okay to burn the paper money.

Under the auspices of Mr., several parents of the bewitched children went to the peach forest to burn paper and worship that night, and the matter was calmed down.

This matter quickly spread in the village, but why Xiao Tao was okay made everyone very puzzled, according to later Mr., it turned out that the big rooster saved Xiao Tao's life. Mr. also said that it is because of the big rooster's ability to see blood, this chicken, in ancient times, was called "yang essence", and it was pure yang all over the body, which was the best to ward off evil spirits.

It must have been seen by the big rooster when Xiao Tao went home, and the big rooster instinctively gave the evil one a bite and bit it away. Later, the big rooster of Xiaotao's family was regarded as a benefactor by the family, and he was raised until he died of old age and was buried in his own land.

There is also a saying that a long, long time ago, there were two gods at the feet of the pheasant, one was Yu and the other was a skull, and they both held reeds in their hands, and they took the ominous ghosts, and killed them when they caught them. Later, people made two peach figures to stand next to the door, and used the feathers of the rooster to put them at home to ward off evil spirits, and some people painted a rooster on the door, which can also play a role in warding off evil spirits.