Is there a custom of killing pigs during the Spring Festival?

There are three reasons for the custom of killing pigs in Chinese New Year. First, it's because we have to make bacon. Second, raising pigs at home is more affordable. Thirdly, killing pigs has become a custom in China New Year, which can bring joy to family reunion.

Killing pigs is a traditional custom of the Han nationality. Families who usually kill pigs can't finish eating for a while, and usually sell them for money. Only the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is an exception. In the twelfth lunar month, most people will kill pigs to prepare jiaozi's meat and Chinese New Year's cooking, which is called "Kill the Year Pig". Northeast nursery rhymes say, "Don't cry, son, kill pigs in the twelfth lunar month" and "Don't be greedy, children will be New Year after the twelfth lunar month", which to some extent reflects people's desire to kill pigs and eat pork in the next year.

Specific introduction to killing pigs:

Killing pigs is to prepare for the Chinese New Year, so most of the meat is broken down into pieces according to the blood neck, tenderloin, hard tendon and back mound (the standard writing of back mound is back mound), and put into a vat for frozen preservation together with the filled blood sausage and vermicelli sausage. Because there is a folk custom in China, you can't cut with a knife from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month. Generally, before New Year's Eve, the meat you want to use these days is cut and chopped according to the purpose and put in pots and bowls in the jar. When it is used, it can be taken out (thawed) slowly for processing.

It is cold in winter in Northeast China, and pork will not go bad from December to early February. Cautious people will use the meat as planned, and China folks will "eat meat constantly" in the first month of the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival used to be called "Year". Its appearance is closely related to the appearance of the calendar. According to the calendar. Twelve months is a year. When twelve months have passed, the first day of the new year is called "Year". Therefore, celebrating the Spring Festival is also called Chinese New Year.