Anecdotal joke

First, rice surnamed pig and high-temperature meat

It has been said more than once that Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province, which has been a land of drought and flood since ancient times, did not starve to death during the famine years, but left many anecdotes related to famine and hunger. Although it is circulated as a joke now, there is a deep sore in my heart. Looking for high temperature is one of them.

High temperature seems to be a personal name at first glance. Actually, it's not. It's a kind of cooked meat: short for high-temperature meat. Having said that, the old people who came from the famine years may understand. The so-called high-temperature meat is the meat of Mixing pig, which is cooked and stuffy after high temperature and high pressure treatment.

The so-called rice star pig refers to a pig infected with taeniasis. The main cause of the disease is poor feeding conditions in poor and backward areas and rural areas, which leads to cross-infection of taeniasis between humans and animals. Pigs raised in the backyard of farmhouses often eat human excrement, which makes them more susceptible to the disease.

Taenia solium cercariae, mainly parasitic in lean meat of pigs; It is also parasitic in the eyes and brain. The slaughtered Mi Xing pigs were covered with cercariae the size of rice grains, which were obviously visible to the naked eye, just like the stars in the night sky. Therefore, people call it Fanxing meat; Also known as pox pork.

However, high-temperature meat is not all processed from rice star pork, and there are also livestock meat that died of other diseases. As long as it doesn't die of a serious infectious disease, it can be made into high-temperature meat. It is said that a livestock disease that appeared that year was called No.4 disease, which was a serious infectious disease. Once infected, livestock will die. The higher authorities will send epidemic prevention officers or military doctors wearing white coats to deal with it, bury it after disinfection, and resolutely prohibit ordinary people from eating meat.

Generally qualified high-temperature meat can be sold in the official state-run deli in the market town. Where there is a bright market, there is a black market. It is said that in the famine year, the economy was controlled and the supply of materials was difficult. Old market towns around Xi 'an in Guanzhong, such as Guodu Street, Qin Dou Street, Gao Qiao, Inspiration Temple and Xiling Road, have black markets selling high-temperature meat in the surrounding fields.

Second, look for high temperature.

As long as it is a party day, in a remote area far from the main street, you will see someone squatting, standing, or squatting there with a five-liter cage on his arm; Or, carry a big ceramic pot in your hand; Some are placed on the side of the road, but people stand not far away to peek; Probably to prevent the urban management from collecting it.

The high-temperature meat in five-liter cages and ceramic cans is wrapped in plastic paper, and several layers of old newspapers or khaki kraft paper are wrapped outside; Newspapers or kraft paper are saturated with oil. On the top of the cage and jar, there is probably a big lamb belly towel; Or an old straw hat.

People are omnivores. If you don't eat meat, there will be no nutrition and no energy to work. In the famine years, it takes more efforts to pick manure, repair canals and pull carts endlessly. In the middle age and prime of that year, poverty and hunger had already devoured us greedily.

High temperature meat is cheap after all; The same money can eat more meat; So it formed a black market. People who look for high-temperature meat also feel shy: one is afraid that jokes are too poor, and the other is afraid that jokes are too greedy.

The ancient traditional culture has always taught people to be poor and safe; Over time, poverty seems to be a virtue to show off. Therefore, even in the famine years, almost no one dared to say that his last episode was to find high-temperature meat to satisfy his hunger.

Don't talk too much. People looking for high temperature come to remote places, go to people carrying cages and cans, and quietly ask: Is there high temperature? Or just whisper: isn't it high temperature!

The man looked at a five-liter bamboo cage or clay pot and whispered, I just cooked early this morning, but I am still very hot. Just burned soju. Two or two.

When they negotiate the price, they go to the small forest outside the assembly, or sit on the big stone in the grass nest under the Fenghe weir; The man unpacked the layers of wrapping paper, and the hot meat had been sliced.

I saw him pull another small plate out of the cage. When the wine and meat are weighed, I can't wait here any longer, so I pick up my hand and chew it. By the way, try liangliang shochu, which is made of vinegar yeast.

After smoking addiction, smoke two pots of dry cigarettes, chat, or try to agree on the next business; Then I went back, bought the goods in the collection and went home happily.

If he met an acquaintance outside the village, he smiled and asked, Uncle Wu went to see epi today. I'm afraid it's not high temperature. Let me know when he is happy; If you are unhappy, you will hum and scold in a low voice: Look at your mother's fart.

Third, taeniasis and watching pigs kill people.

Humans like to eat meat, but they also cherish life and pity the small ones. Children are forbidden to eat hot meat, just in case. I remember the content of posters and posters I saw when I was a child, saying that the tapeworm of pork was parasitic in the human body and it didn't get sick until 30 years later. The age of onset is similar to that of AIDS now.

But after studying biology at school, I realized that it was not that serious. Around the end of the Cultural Revolution, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the production team was allowed to choose one or two pigs from the members' homes and slaughter meat for each household.

Killing pigs is a public welfare activity, which is accounted for by the production team first; By the end of the year, pig farmers will get money or convert it into food. One thing I remember a little: in our team, we really killed a Mi Xing pig.

The killed pig was scalded with boiling water, plucked, cut open and split in half; Put it on a big meat box. The members of the whole team talked and discussed for a long time around the rice star pork on the meat case.

Because there are not many stars that the eyes can see, I finally decided to divide them. Fat meat is irrelevant and is mainly used for frying oil and cooking. Besides, there seems to be no stars in pork fat.

Chao Bo, the deputy secretary and captain of the village, asked the members to use the fire to cook the meat. And let members forbid their children to eat.

Since then, my heart has been branded, and I know that taeniasis is terrible and can be fatal. Because in the neighborhood around Fiona Fang, there are really unlucky people who suffer from facial deformities because of eating high-temperature meat on the black market. So we dare not raise the temperature of meat since we were young.

But adults seem to have forgotten a terrible thing. There is an unwritten agreement in the team that whenever a pig is killed, the captain will send someone to take the pig's blood out with a foreign porcelain basin, steam the pig's blood at the players' home near the pig killing farm, and show it to the children who kill the pig in the team.

On holidays, schools are closed. Little boys like to watch the killing of pigs and share the steamed pig blood. I saw several strong and bold young people in the team; Pull the tail and ears, lift the 200-300 kg fat pig and pour it on the butcher's stool; Kneel on the pig with your legs.

The pigs in the massacre are still struggling and screaming; It seems that I know my time is up. Uncle butcher took a bright pig-killing knife and ground it on the grinding rod several times. Someone over there has prepared a foreign porcelain basin for pig blood, and first poured some cold water into it.

With a wave of his hand, uncle butcher first took the foreign porcelain basin and put it next to the slaughter case under the pig's neck, holding the pig's mouth; The other hand stabbed a bright sharp knife into the pig's heart from its neck; The knife in his hand was picked up and pulled out fiercely; Pig blood came out at once.

The pigs in the slaughter case were still struggling at first and gradually lost their strength. From time to time, there was a purring sound. Uncle butcher left his hand, and the pigs in the slaughter box were still twitching occasionally; He instructed the people on the other side to pour boiling water into the tank and prepare to scald the pig.

Who killed a pig, the child cried sadly; Timid babies either turn their backs or cover their eyes. The pain of where you will go to her domestic pig was soon diluted by the joy of sharing pig blood.

Everyone was so happy that they even scrambled to eat. I didn't get much that time because I was small. But I can be sure that I still ate a big piece.

Fourth, sequelae of high temperature.

I've been worried about this, afraid of catching tapeworms. Until I went to school with a biology book and read the section of pork tapeworm over and over again; The probability of contracting taeniasis through pig blood seems small, but it is always possible.

Many years later, I got sick and had a physical examination. I once told my doctors and friends to help them check tapeworms. They all laughed and said, where is the disease now? I said, where do you know? I have eaten steamed pig blood from Mi Xing pig. They still laugh. Their smiles made me feel a little relaxed.

Now it seems that people in those days were too worried. Because the pork tapeworm is not as terrible as advertised; Conventional cooking methods can completely kill tapeworm cercaria. Now I know it's okay, but I'm so happy that I don't feel lucky at all.

Until I wrote these words, my heart was still aching. At that time, we gluttonous children may be lucky enough to eat the steamed pig blood of Mi Xing pig and not be infected with taeniasis.

I've been thinking about that unlucky guy whose facial features were deformed because he ate high-temperature meat on the black market. I once quietly asked Mr. Du, who teaches biology, to let him judge the reason.

Teacher Du told me that in those years, people who were hungry and gluttonous ate whatever they wanted. But it seems that he shouldn't eat the high-temperature meat of Mi Xing pig.

The unlucky person's name is: lock; He is a five-guarantee household. In the past many years, people who mentioned him in the street speculated that he might be hungry, secretly cooking other dead livestock at home to eat meat, and his facial features changed. He's dead anyway. Nobody knows.

Guanzhong story in the era of Tang Dou prodigal son returning to wasteland: looking for high temperature.