said that the Year of the Pig

is quietly approaching. Before the end of the year, pigs came first, and all kinds of new year pictures and paper cuts of pigs were already posted all over the streets. The flavor of the year is gradually fermented in the "sea of pigs. Taking advantage of the hot iron, this article will talk about the protagonist of the New Year-pigs.

When it comes to monkeys, the image of Monkey King Monkey King will unconsciously appear in everyone's mind. When it comes to pigs, it will naturally be associated with another character-Zhu Bajie. However, compared with the master elder brother with great power, the image of the second elder brother is much more grounded. If Sun Wukong is the representative of divinity, while Zhu Bajie is the reflection of human nature, he is lazy, fond of taking advantage, clever, greedy and lascivious, which brings together many shortcomings of ordinary people, but at every critical moment, he will come forward again. Although many times along the way to break up back to Gao Lao Zhuang, but most of them are just a mouth addiction. His appearance has added a lot of humor to Journey to the West, such as often singing against Sun Wukong on the way to learn from the scriptures, wanting to break up when encountering difficulties, slacking off to sleep during the fast, etc., making readers laugh. Zhu Bajie has a very high popularity, it can be said that on the one hand, it comes from the character of the character, on the other hand, it comes from everyone's love for pigs.

Our country can be said to be the country that loves pigs the most in the world, and this love has a long history. Farming civilization needs to follow the heavens, to watch the countryside, and to work hard. In the long years when men plow and women weave, work at sunrise and rest at sunset, people and pigs gradually become attached, and pigs eventually become an indispensable part of people's lives. According to scholars, the domestication of pigs is second only to dogs. From the unearthed oracle bone inscriptions, it can be seen that pigs were fed in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, that is, the earliest pigsty. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, the pig industry was further developed. This can also be seen from the text. For example, the word "home" means a house, and a "pig" (referring to a pig in ancient times) is a home. The importance of life. Another example is the word "mix" (h u n ). the right side uses a fence to close the "pig", which means pigsty. it is probably because of poor hygiene habits of pigs. "mix" also refers to dirty and filthy things, which can be described as very vivid. In traditional culture, pigs symbolize wealth and happiness. Smooth weather and prosperity of six animals are the dreams of every ordinary family.

Compared with cattle and sheep, pigs are the richest in fireworks and have the closest distance from market life. The Book of Rites-King System records: "The princes do not kill cattle for no reason, the doctors do not kill sheep for no reason, the scholars do not kill dogs for no reason, and the common people do not eat treasures for no reason." It can be seen that although the pig was domesticated very early, its status in the hearts of the rulers was not high. However, compared with ordinary people, pork is still a luxury and can only be eaten once during the Chinese New Year. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the scale of pig breeding began to shrink and was gradually replaced by sheep. Yang Xizhi's "Luoyang Galan Ji" records: "The sheep are the most produced in the land". The literati of the Tang Dynasty often appeared "lamb wine", which rarely mentioned pork. The royal family of the Song Dynasty ate mutton and even called it "Ancestral Family Law". When Su Shi was relegated to Huangzhou, he wrote "Pork Eating Poems": "Noble people refuse to eat, poor people do not boil." This is probably the crux of pork. On the one hand, because the price of pork is low, far from beef and mutton, dignitaries are full of delicacies and disdain to eat them. However, the poor people do not know how to cook, especially the fatty part of pork, which leads to the "price of pork is like dirt". When the Yellow River burst, Su Shi managed the water well in Xuzhou. People killed pigs and sheep, carried wine and vegetables to the government to comfort them. Su Shi could not refuse, so he had to personally instruct his family to develop braised pork and give it back to the people. After eating, the people felt that the meat was fat but not greasy, crisp and delicious, so they followed suit one after another, and the "treatment" of pork has been greatly improved since then. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu was surnamed Guo. In order to avoid taboo, it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang gave the pig a name: Feifei. However, this slightly cute name did not bring good luck to the pigs. Instead, it was a disaster to greet them: Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty issued a ban on pigs, and the people were not allowed to raise pigs. However, the ban was repealed after only three months under civil pressure. It can be seen that most rulers are not optimistic about pigs, but pigs occupy an indispensable position in the minds of the people in the market. In the Qing Dynasty, killing pigs became a big custom. Until today, the quantitative advantage of pork has been unshakable. After nearly two thousand years of discussion, pork finally succeeded in "counterattack.

We often hear the phrase "I haven't eaten pork, I haven't seen a pig run", but as a common livestock, pigs really have a lot of unknown places. The stupid image of a pig in people's minds seems to come more from its naive appearance. In fact, its IQ is very high. Scientists estimate that the IQ of a pig is about equal to that of a human 3 -year-old child. In scientific experiments, pigs are even as capable of learning as chimpanzees. Due to degeneration of the pig's cervical spine, the head cannot be raised more than 20 . Due to this physiological structure, the pig cannot see the sky with its own strength in its whole life except lying on its back. In addition, after the 1950 s, the strong and thick white pigs were introduced into China, so the previous Chinese pigs were all traditional black pigs, so the image of Zhu Bajie in Journey to the West is "black face and short hair, long beak and big ears, wearing a green and blue shuttle cloth straight, wearing a flower cloth handkerchief", there is still a certain gap with the image on the TV screen.

Jinhua and pigs have a special fate. Jinhua ham has good quality and fragrance, and is well-known at home and abroad. Its raw materials come from Jinhua's unique pig breed-Liangtou Wu. This industry has brought many economic benefits to Jinhua and has become the first batch of protected varieties announced by the Ministry of Agriculture. It can be said that Jinhua's two-headed black has made the reputation of Jinhua ham, and has also made its own contribution to the development of Jinhua. Think of this, can not help but awe.

With the development of the times, the situation that one can only eat pork during the Chinese New Year has entered history. Nowadays, people can not only eat meat every day, but also change patterns and taste various categories. From the simple satisfaction of eating meat at the beginning, it develops into a picky taste and food. Some people began not only to stay in the ordinary pork, but to turn their eyes back to the former native pork. Soil eggs, soil crucian carp, soil pork...... with soil may bring double value. "It's better to be local." At the dinner table, you can often hear someone make such a sigh of emotion, and the satisfaction seems to bring a little bit of prosperity and loneliness.

silver dog keeps watch, golden pig welcomes spring, and the speed of timing rotation is amazing. I remember that killing pigs is a huge project with a clear division of labor and orderly organization. The atmosphere of the New Year comes from the sound of firecrackers outside the house and the smell of meat rising with water vapor when the lid is uncovered. Now, killing pigs is not common, but the flavor of the year is still there, as long as the family can be reunited, as long as relatives and friends "pig" things go well. (Fonse)