Information about pigs in the Year of the Pig

According to China's traditional Jiazi chronology, the year of Ding Hai will be ushered in 2007, which corresponds to the last animal of the zodiac-pig, and Ding Hai is a mountain pig. The zodiac is based on the Big Dipper. The zodiac belongs to the spirit of fighting stars, which leads to people's life. The sea is the image of muddy water and dirty toilets. Pigs live in 6954, four animals are in power and dogs are in power. According to the principle of thirty-six birds with twelve stems, dogs in the morning and pigs in the evening. The pig is the brightest of the seven stars, also known as the giant. However, there are two algorithms for the first day of the Year of the Pig. One is to start one year from the first day of the first month, and the other is to start one year from beginning of spring, that is, to enter the Year of the Pig on February 4th or18th. Ding Weiting said that everything is strong. In the old society, being a mature man and being a healthy man meant this. Ding's age is called strong. Hai, worship, also disintegrated, everything integrated into a solid core, Hai was named Dayuanxian, "Hai Zang Ren Jia is the real trace", and after two days of hiding, Ren, Jia and Ding Hainian were also called powerful Yuanxian. According to the five elements, it is composed of sixty jiazi and five tones and twelve methods. C and D belong to fire, while Xu and Hai are Tianmen. The fire is on, and the soil is not on the ground, so it is called the soil on the house. People born in 2007 belong to the soil on the house, commonly known as local pigs, which means bricks and tiles. Gorgeous roof tiles are symbols of prosperity and wealth.

Pigs are the earliest domesticated animals, so the Chinese word "home" means that there is a jackal under the word "Yi". Only when people can afford to raise pigs at home can they say that they have a home. There are many Chinese characters related to tapirs, such as tapirs in Kanto and Kansai, tapirs in Jiangdong and Nanchu, pigs or pigs for cubs, and dolphins or tapirs in some places. During the Han and Wei Dynasties, the local government of the northeast ethnic minorities under Xuantu County was good at raising livestock, so it simply used six kinds of livestock as official names, such as vest, ox armor, pig armor, dog armor, envoy, envoy and so on, and called the people pig armor, just like calling ministers and princes now. In winter in the north, ointment is used to keep out the cold, that is, lard is thickly coated. The Pig Eight Rings in The Journey to the West was invented by the author with the pig as his surname, but there was a pig with another name, Kui. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhi Zi, a scholar-bureaucrat, was named Gongzi in Kui (now northeast of Huoxian County, Shanxi Province), and Hou Bozi was the fourth among the five products. Later generations took Kui as their surname. There are also some pig names. The founding general of the Western Han Dynasty was called Zhao. Eleven years after the founding of the Han Dynasty, he rebelled and was defeated. Emperor Gaozu's favorite in the harem was Miracle, who gave birth to his son Ruyi and named him Yin. Miracle invited him to establish Emperor Gaozu as the Prince, and Liu Bang also thought so. However, because the minister tried to negotiate with Sean, he finally failed to abolish it. When Emperor Gaozu died, Lv Hou killed Ruyi out of jealousy, especially cruelly cut off Miracle's hands and feet, gouged out his eyes, stabbed his ears, fed him dumb medicine, and put it in a pigsty, named it "Renku". Therefore, people regard Lv Hou's vicious behavior as the most appropriate annotation of "the most poisonous woman's heart".

In ancient times, pigs played an important role in people's lives. There are many words about pigs in The Book of Songs, the oldest collection of poems. "Li Zhaonan Language" says: Those who live in it suffer, and five words stand side by side. I'm worried! A big man is fifteen cents. The reeds have grown very thick since they were born, and they shot and killed five mature pigs at a time, all of which were kung fu! Artemisia selengensis was born densely, and shot five smaller pigs again, but all of them were shot. This dangerous man's kung fu is really great! )! One-year-old pig is called tapir, two-year-old pig is called tapir, three-year-old pig is called tapir, and four-year-old pig is special. Li Yu is equivalent to the current director of animal husbandry. The more pigs are raised, the richer the food is, which proves that the director of animal husbandry is more competent.

Xiaoya. "The Progressive Stone" describes the muddy roads and the pigs being washed away on rainy days, saying that "there are sandflies, and waves are involved." The white hoofed pig in the poem is scary.

"Qi Feng. "July" recorded the scene of production and life at that time, in which it was mentioned that "two days are like one day, and the martial arts are sacrificed, and the words are private and public." Hunters come to get together in December. It is better to continue hunting than to practice martial arts. If you catch a pig and cook it yourself, the big beast will be handed over to the public.

The idiom "pig is brave" refers to indomitable courage, wearing a rooster as a crown and a dolphin (the hair of a wild boar) as a symbol of bravery. Luz dressed like this to bully Confucius who was a teacher. As a result, as we all know, civilization defeated barbarism, and Luz became one of the 72 outstanding disciples of Confucius.

Another ancient book, The Book of Changes, also has records about pigs. The six or five sentences of a big animal are about the breeding method of wild boar: "dog's teeth", which means that domestic pigs should castrate their pigs when they are teething, so as to prevent problems before they become docile. The meaning of the Book of Changes is profound and difficult to understand. The most famous book with special explanation is Xun, which is also a kind of pig. As soon as you open your mouth, your insides will be exposed, which is the meaning of taking Xun as the topic.

Since a pig has become a domestic animal, it is a very ordinary animal and not so terrible. When Cao Cao saw the military purge of Sun Quan at the end of Han Dynasty, he once lamented: "A son is like (Sun Quan), and the son of Liu Jingsheng is like a dolphin dog!" On this basis, later generations often modestly call their sons dolphins and dogs, which means ordinary and not outstanding. The idiom "A Pig in Yi Long" compares dragons with pigs, which shows the disparity between the virtuous and the foolish. This is also an allusion. It is modest to say that his son is so modest, which makes others say that he is abusive, lowly and incompetent. For example, Cao Shuang, a general of Cao Wei, and his younger brother Yicao were accused by Huan Fan, a veteran of western agriculture, that "Cao Zidan (Cao Shuang, Yicao's father Cao Zhen) was a beautiful woman and gave birth to your younger brother, Dolphin." Now people no longer use dolphins and dogs as modest words, but calling others pigs still contains unpleasant derogatory meanings.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Mrs. Nanzi of Wei Linggong was a coquettish woman who had an affair with the Song Dynasty. At that time, the popular folk song said, "I gave it to Lou Pig, but it was my Ai Ai". Lou pig refers to sow, Ai Ai refers to boar, mocking them as pig men and women, just like cursing dog men in Water Margin later.

There is a story that An Lushan was invited to dinner by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and An Lushan was drunk. After he fell asleep, he became a pig with a dragon's head and reported it to the emperor. Xuanzong said, "What about this pig dragon?" As a pig, a dragon can't be an emperor. Later, the Anshi Rebellion eventually lost and was killed by the Ministry of Shi Siming.

Related idioms include tapirs making friends with animals (not treating people with courtesy), tapirs in Lu Yu (copying mistakes), tapirs with dolphin's hoof (getting more benefits with less money), tapirs in Liaodong (rare and exotic) and so on.

People are most familiar with the image of the pig, Pig Bajie in The Journey to the West, but why Pig Bajie is called Marshal Tian Peng may be unclear to more people. In the Book of Rites, animals used as sacrifices have aliases, among which dogs are called gang dogs, also known as General Wu Kou. A stiff collar means that the long hair on the neck is as hard as steel, and the black beak is a long Darkmouth. Marshal in The Journey to the West was evolved from General Wu beak. As soon as he appeared in the book, he was "predictably ugly: black face, short hair, long beak and big ears". In the theory of Five Elements, black is the color of the north, the five elements belong to water, and the Nine Palaces are in the canopy. Therefore, Pig Bajie "pardoned the Marshal to govern the Tianhe River, and the Governor's sailors called it the Constitutional Festival". As for the general becoming a marshal, it has been a long time from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the main function of pigs to people is to eat meat. In rural areas of Heilongjiang Province, killing pigs in the twelfth lunar month is regarded as a very important activity. When you kill pigs, you should whisper, "Don't be surprised when you kill pigs and sheep. If you die early and reborn early, it will be your turn in the next world." After killing pigs, every household should invite relatives and friends to eat pig-killing dishes. Pork stewed vermicelli and ribs stewed beans are the characteristic signs of the four major stews in Northeast cuisine. It is the happiest time of the year and the biggest highlight of the cultural characteristics in Northeast China to eat pig-killing dishes every day.