Chicken King

Xishuangbanna is popular for cockfighting, which is held in villages and villages during the New Year holidays. The most lively one is the annual chicken king selection competition held in the township during the Water Festival. Each village and village gathered hundreds of majestic roosters, fighting on a high platform in the dark, the final selection of the bravest and fighting rooster by elimination, awarded the crown of the king of the chicken, the owner of the king of the chicken can get a very large amount of prize money.

Managing Lang Zhai Bonong Ding raised a big green plume rooster named Haer, who has been the king of the chicken six times. Ordinary roosters can sit on the throne of the chicken once, which is already a great honor, Haer when the six times the king of the chicken, fame, became a household name star. According to him, his family's tall, spacious bamboo building was built with the prize money from the chicken king.

Hair grew tall and athletic, ruby blue tail feathers bright as lard, shining brightly in the sun, amber beak like a parrot's beak curved like a fish hook, a pair of chicken claws strong, compared with the eagle's claws. I have observed its cockfighting game, once the opponent, its neck of colored feathers will be fluffy and unrestrained open, like a sun umbrella, run over, curved hook-like beak storm pecking, jumping to the air, iron claws a handful of opponents will be pulled off the chicken feathers, three times, the opponent was beaten to death.

Unfortunately, no flower is red for a hundred days, and professional cockfighters cannot always be the king of chickens. The years are not forgiving, and neither are the chickens. In his seventh competition, he fought a black rooster with a black crown. Although the black rooster does not look as robust as Haar, nor as experienced in fighting as Haar, but only one and a half years old, young, with good endurance, flexibility, and alertness. In a good fight, in the beginning, the black rooster lost one after another, the crown was pecked to pieces, chicken feathers like black snowflakes flying in the sky; but after a dozen rounds, Ha'er gradually stamina, no longer able to fly to mid-air high in the air with iron claws to tear, pecking frequency and strength is also significantly weakened, the black rooster is fighting more and more courageous, frequently counterattack. Soon, Haer was pecked out of the corner of the eye blood, a wing seems to be sprained off the joint, drooping on the ground. The king of chickens is in the end the king of chickens, not the least bit discouraged, but still a tenacious fight. Finally, both sides twisted and hugged together, as a colorful ball rolled fiercely for a while, and when separated, Haer was covered in blood, fell to the ground struggling for half a day but could not get up, while the black rooster could barely stand up, and let out a hoof call. Haar failed to defend his title, and the crown was given to the young and strong black rooster.

It is to be expected that a cockfight will invariably end in defeat.

Generally speaking, a chicken that loses a fight has lost its value and will be slaughtered and eaten by its owner as a vegetable chicken. But Bonontin, thinking that Ha'er had earned a lot of honor and wealth for his master, could not bear to treat Ha'er as a general fighting chicken, so he took it home, healed its wounds, and declared that he would give it a pension.

After recovering from the injury, Haer became very ugly, with broken tail feathers, sparse neck feathers, a split beak from the middle, several broken fingers and claws, a chicken eye was blinded, and the chicken neck seemed to be twisted, walking with a crooked head and stumbling. The appearance is both comical and pathetic.

As time goes by, it's time for the Water Festival again. The annual Chicken King selection competition was held as scheduled, with heads hastening under the high platform and chicken warriors making their debut one by one. After a fierce competition, last year's black rooster defeated many strong opponents, and once again won the chicken crown. It was held in the arms of its owner, and the mayor personally gave it a red ribbon around the chicken's neck. People looked at the black rooster and his master with envy, and the black rooster proudly stretched his neck and crowed proudly.

When the mayor was hanging the red ribbon on the black rooster's head, suddenly, a series of old and hoarse rooster cries came from a laurel tree beside the high platform, and then a big green-plumed rooster flew down from the branch and landed squarely on the black rooster's head, dragging the black rooster down from its master's arms. All the people can see clearly, is already removed from the crown of the chicken Haer! It seems that Haar is not satisfied with last year's defeat and wants to fight with the black rooster.

The black rooster gave Ha'er a long, "oooh-ooh" look, with an arrogant and frivolous tone, as if to say: "You are my defeated enemy, be smart and get lost before I peck your other eye blind, otherwise I will be ungracious! I'm not going to be polite!

He cocked his head and took one step toward the black rooster. The owner of the black rooster tried to drive Haar away but was opposed by the audience on the stage, according to the rules, every rooster is eligible to participate in the competition for the king of chickens if he wants.

Hater and the black rooster finally wrestled with each other. Hair is no match for the black rooster, it is old, crooked, and blind in one eye, nine times out of ten pecks and bites failed, the beak is also cracked, even if by chance it pecked, but also can not let the other side cause any injury; the claws also lost the sharpness and power of the past, even if grabbed the other side of the body, but also at most grabbed one or two black fluff. The black rooster nimbly dodged Ha'er's pecking, one moment around the side, a mouth pecking off a handful of Ha'er's neck hair, one moment jumped above, a bite Ha'er's crown. Soon, Ha'er was bruised and battered, with colorful chicken feathers floating in the air. This is no longer like a chicken fight, but a black rooster in target practice and practice is a live target.

I think He's is too insensitive, he is old and weak, and with disabilities, is no hope to win, and will not last long, will be fighting on the ground. Sure enough, after a few minutes, he was panting and too weak to stand.

The strong black rooster jumped on Haer again and pecked furiously.

Haer's head and face were full of blood, simply turned into a bloody chicken. But he was still wantonly opening his bloody neck hair, showing his broken beak, his neck stretched out to do the pecking and biting action; his body was trembling violently, and he was going to fall, but he never fell, not only standing but also stumbling hard to chase the black rooster.

According to the unwritten rules of cockfighting, one side either falls to the ground and can't get up or twists and turns to escape from the field, then the winner is considered to be decided. He neither fell to the ground nor fled from the field, so it could not be considered a loss. The black rooster is finally a little weak, it is clear that unless Ha'er died on the spot, it is impossible to withdraw from the game. I don't know if he was shocked by Ha'er's bravery, or he couldn't bear to kill an old rooster who was on his way to his death, so he clucked and let out a series of helpless cries and turned around to exit the arena.

According to the rules of cockfighting, it is considered a loss if you exit the arena. The hair stood in the middle of the cockfighting arena, head held high, "ooh -" a blood-curdling cry, then fell head first to the ground. He finally got what he wanted and died on the throne of the king of chickens.