Tell me about the dog meat seller.

There are several explanations for the sentence "Dog meat is not served":

The first combination of "selling dog meat by hanging sheep's head" can intuitively feel the cheapness of dog meat. In the Qing dynasty, the dogs raised by ordinary people at that time were all local dogs, and the price of one was about half a silver at most. When the price is lower, it may only be three or four hundred. For example, there is a description of various social situations in the late Qing Dynasty in the novel, such as "Ji Chun Taiwan", "It only takes five or six hundred articles to buy a Liu Li".

Because it is cheap, it can be seen that it is difficult to become a big dish or a hard dish on the "mat", but it is more like a street snack, such as stew and enema. Of course, this is also related to the popularity of folk dog keeping at that time.

Second, for a period of time before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, dogs appeared as livestock and more as substitutes for pigs. It is easy to breed and has miscellaneous eating habits. In addition, it eats human excrement (in order to ingest protein), so it doesn't serve dog meat, and there are also factors such as unclean dog meat and cold guests.

This explanation is far-fetched, because some pigs have the habit of eating human excrement. Domestic animals such as sheep and rabbits may also eat their own excrement in some cases.

This sentence "Dog meat doesn't serve the table" is different from "Dog meat doesn't serve the kitchen". If you don't go to the kitchen, you respect the kitchen god and don't cook at home. This is because of the dog blood special effect, afraid of polluting the kitchen god.