The golden rooster is used to announce the dawn.
Further extension symbolizes the liberation from darkness to light, such as "cock crows, dawn breaks, liberation", which is the symbolic meaning of such progress.
Example: The Year of the Monkey is about to pass, and the bell is about to ring. At this moment when the golden rooster announces the dawn, let's look forward to a new year and a new glory.
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The origin of the golden rooster announcing the dawn
For the ancients, it was very important for chickens to watch the night to announce the dawn. The ancient timing tools were very simple, such as a leaky kettle. Although it could time, it was impossible to wake people up on time, and there was no later alarm clock. Sleepers don't know what time it is. At this time, the golden rooster announced the dawn and told people that it was almost dawn and they had to get up and get ready for work.
People often say that "work at sunrise and rest at sunset" (meaning that the sun comes out to farm and go home to rest after sunset), but you can't wait until sunrise to get up, not to mention that the sun doesn't come out every day, and rainy weather loses the basis for observing the sun at a fixed time.
And chickens, whether it is hot or cold, whether it is sunny or snowy, keep their promises and never slack off. It can be said that it is precisely because of the difficulty of dawn crowing that a new day of fireworks and vitality began to appear on the earth.
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