There are a lot of taboos for rural people to kill the New Year's pig on New Year's Day, and now many young people in the village don't care anymore, but I hope you know these taboos.

Killing the New Year's pig is the most auspicious time to end with a knife, but in the process of killing the pig there are some butchers will make up the second knife, which is very taboo in their line of work. The most taboo is to put the New Year pig has been slaughtered over, pulling the pig people have let go of the hand at this time the pig suddenly jumped to the ground struggling or are beginning to pull the hair of the pig suddenly began to struggle a few times, these things happen not only the owner is not happy.

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And if a butcher encounters this kind of thing, it's the end of their career, and they won't be able to touch this business from now on. The worst thing is that this kind of thing is a sign of disaster for the family and it's all very serious.

The butcher has to wash his hands in gold, and the first pork cooked by the family can't be eaten by their own family members first, but has to be prayed for by their deceased relatives before they can eat it themselves, which is what the old butcher warned me. So in the countryside to kill a pig or hire a skilled butcher, the amount of money does not matter, the people of the New Year figure a good luck.

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Some kind of taboo formed by people's attitudes towards sacred, unclean and dangerous things. Danger and having a punitive effect are the two main characteristics of taboos. It is a measure of self-defense taken by people for their own utilitarian purposes, psychologically, in word and deed, and emerged from the cult of ghosts. Taboos are roughly divided into three stages: primary stage, secondary stage and transformation and extinction. Funeral taboos and ancestor worship are the original forms of taboos, and are most directly linked to ghost beliefs.

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Secondary stage people inherited the taboos that appeared in the ghost worship in the primitive period, institutionalized them, ritualized them, and made cumbersome regulations. In people's lives, whether it is rituals, festivals, trades, etc., whatever is considered inauspicious, almost all in the taboo examples. From the liberation of thought, the elimination of superstition in modern times, science gradually penetrated into people's hearts, the natural demise of taboos, conversion.