Many people, especially in southern China, maintain the culture of eating snakes, drinking snake wine (produced by infusing whole snakes in rice wine or grain alcohol), consuming snake blood and even its gall bladder.įor example, snake soup, one of the most famous and probably most terrifying cuisines in Hong Kong, has been regarded as a delicacy for hundreds of years and many locals believe that it is blessed with spiritual powers. It is often advertised that it can cure everything from farsightedness to hair loss. The snake is also very useful in traditional Chinese medicine. People regarded the house snake as a guardian god, and if a mischievous child ever beat it or scared it away, terrible things would happen to the family. In many parts of northern China, in the past having a snake living in the house meant good fortune. The Thai zodiac includes a nga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at the Chinese New Year, but either on the first day of the fifth month in the Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran New Year festival (now celebrated every 1315 April), depending on the purpose of the use. According to Chinese mythology, the well-known creators of mankind, the “Chinese Adam and Eve” - Fu Xi (also known as the first of the Three Sovereigns of ancient China) and his sister and/or wife Nüwa, were described as “half human, half snake”. Although the universal perception of the snake is mainly that of a poisonous and evil guise, it has long been worshiped in China as a divine creature.
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