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Why is France called the Gallic Rooster?

The main body of the French is the Latinized Gauls , and the little population when the Franks invaded could not become the main ethnic group in the Gaul region. The Gallic identity of modern French originates from the rivalry between Germany and France at a time when nationalism was in the ascendant.

Although there was no Germany at that time, there was only the German region, and there was a rough German national identity. Because it was the stronghold of the Germanic tribes, the ancestral identity was traced back to the Germans and they identified themselves as such. Although the highly centralized France is named after the Franks, it disdains to have a relationship with the backward Germans. Correspondingly, it traces the Roman-Gaul identity to show its superiority and difference to Germany.

In ancient times, humans lived on the land of France. So far, fairly systematic human cultural relics from the Paleolithic Age to the Iron Age have been discovered in France, including human jaw fossils from 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, about 20,000 years ago in caves in Lascaux and other places in southwestern France. Character carvings and animal murals, megalithic tombstones and earthen tombs in Brittany 3,000 to 4,000 years ago in western France, as well as various types of production tools and artistic creations.

Around 1000 BC, the Celts moved here from the mountains of Central Europe. The Romans called the place Gaul, and the inhabitants were called the Gauls. The great migration of Germanic peoples influenced the development of Gaul. In 418 the Visigoths established a kingdom in Aquitaine.

In 443 the Burgundians established a kingdom in the Saône and Rhône rivers, and the British occupied what is today Brittany.

In 451 the Huns, led by Attila, invaded Gaul and were defeated by a coalition of Romans and barbarians (including the Franks). Gaul was completely controlled by barbarian kings. In the late 5th century AD, the Franks who settled between the Meuse and Esco rivers invaded the west under the leadership of King Clovis (see the Kingdom of the Franks), and successively defeated the Roman military chiefs Siagius and Allah. Man, Visigoth.

In 481 the Franks occupied all of Gaul except Burgundy and the Mediterranean coast, and moved to Paris to establish the Frankish kingdom.

Gaul is an ancient name for France. The Gallic rooster was a symbol on the national flag of the First French Republic and a symbol of the revolutionary consciousness of the French people at that time. Gaul is an ancient Western European place name.

Gaul is divided into two major regions: intra-mountain Gaul, which is the northern part of Italy between the south of the Alps and the Rubicon Valley; extra-mountain Gaul, that is, the Alps pass through the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and connect the vast north of the Pyrenees. The region, equivalent to today’s France, Belgium, and part of the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and the Federal Republic of Germany, is also commonly referred to as Gaul.

Gaul is actually the ancient name of France, but Gaul is not actually the name of France, but the name of the Roman Empire to France. The word Gallus actually means rooster in Latin. After a long history, Gallus rooster gradually became the self-proclaimed name of the French.

The Roman Empire called today’s France Gallia, and the Gallic people Gallus, which in Latin means rooster. No such connection was made in the early Middle Ages. This connection became common only after about the 14th century. The French also gradually accepted the representative image of the rooster. But it wasn’t until the Renaissance that the rooster officially became a symbol of France .

During the French Revolution and the July Dynasty, the rooster replaced the lily, the symbol of kingship. The flag of the First French Republic had the image of a rooster, which was a symbol of the revolutionary consciousness of the French people at that time.

Despite the vigilant and brave qualities of the rooster, Emperor Napoleon preferred to use the eagle as a symbol of France.

During the First World War, the rooster was used as a symbol of the French nation’s resistance to the Prussian invasion. Since the 1980s, the Gallic rooster has been used as the emblem of the French football and rugby teams, making the Gallic rooster world famous.