Pig

Sus scrofa

subspecies include: Sus scrofa in central Europe, Sus vittatus in Southeast Asia and Sus cristatus in India, and it is generally believed that these three subspecies constitute the breeding of domestic pigs.

pigs, omnivores. Pigs generally refer to domestic animals. The pig is the end of the zodiac, also known as the sea. Mammals, with fat body, short limbs, long nose and muzzle, edible meat, tanned skin, fat body and short limbs, gentle nature, strong adaptability, easy feeding and rapid reproduction, with black, white, sauce red or black and white flowers. Pigs can be bred 5-12 months after birth, and the gestation period is about 4 months. The average life span of pigs is 2 years. A domestic fat animal for food, cute when I was a child, scary when I grew up, big nose, big ears, eating too much and getting fat quickly. Pig raising in China has a history of at least 56-68 years. The pig's neck is very short. In fact, pigs are not stupid. In fact, they are very smart animals. They look simple and honest, but they are actually a little short-tempered.

Pigs are also known as Wujin, Black-faced Lang and Black Grandpa. According to the report of the ruling and opposition parties, in the Tang Dynasty, people in Hongzhou raised pigs to get rich and called them "Wujin". The Tang Dynasty's Miscellaneous Notes of Yunxian quoted the Old Compilation of Chengping: "A black-faced lang is also called a pig." On the land of China, as early as the matriarchal clan commune, domestic animals such as pigs and dogs have been raised. The pottery pigs unearthed from Hemudu Neolithic Cultural Site in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province are very similar to the shape of domestic pigs now, indicating that the domestication of pigs had taken shape at that time.

[ Edit this paragraph] Smart examples

Recently, after a long period of observation and research on the living habits of pigs, it has been proved that pigs are kind, docile and smart animals. It is neither as obedient as cows and horses, nor as overbearing and fierce as goats; Neither ungrateful like a cat, nor flattering like a dog. In many ways, dogs are not as clever as pigs. After training, pigs can not only master all kinds of skills and movements like dogs, but also have shorter training time than dogs. Some specially trained pigs can dance, drum and swim; Some will push the car upright; Some clever pigs can also be used as "pigs and dogs"; Some can even sniff out mines buried in the soil with their noses.

pigs can also work as guards like dogs. In the United States, some farmers used pigs to defend the land of the manor, and also bitten strangers who strayed into the manor. Another farmer raised two pigs to guard the pond instead of people in order to prevent cattle from being bitten by snakes when drinking water by the pond, and achieved good results. Pigs can not only prevent snakes, but also like to eat them. Scientists have proved by experiments that it is scientific to raise pigs to prevent snakes, because pigs have thick fat, which can neutralize snake venom and prevent it from entering blood vessels.

pigs also have an extremely developed sense of smell. Under the ground in some areas of France, there is a very expensive edible fungus-black truffle. Local farmers regard pigs as powerful assistants to harvest black truffles. Pigs can smell black truffles growing 25-3 cm deep underground when they are 6 meters away. Although dogs can also take on this job, it is much more difficult to train dogs than to train pigs, and they have to be searched every day. If they are separated by a few days, they will forget. The pig is much more capable than the dog in this respect. Even if it only searches once a week, it will not forget the skills it has learned.

The pig is a player on the sports field. A few years ago, at the national farm exhibition held in the United States, a unique pig running competition was held. At the referee's command, those pigs with labels ran after each other, and they would make a final sprint when they were near the finish line.

[ Edit this paragraph] Folk custom

Before the Spring Festival, people usually kill pigs before the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, and the 26th is the knife-closing day, so they can't cut any more knives. When killing pigs in Zhejiang area, we should pay attention to "clearing with one knife", that is, killing with one knife, otherwise it will be unlucky. When entering the knife, the butcher should say "born into the body", and children and women can't watch it. After killing, the paper with pig blood should be pressed in the corner of the room or in the pigpen to show that the pig is not dead. Pig hair should be filled with a blowtorch. After all the boiling water is put into the bucket, the lower end of the blowtorch is immersed in the soup bucket, and the upper end is blown with the mouth, blowing around the bucket, which shows that pigs will grow fast and big in the future. When Joe wears pig hair, he should leave a quick hair on the pig's head and tail, which means "there is a head and a tail", and then put the whole pig on a stool. First, the pig's head is facing outwards, and the pig's hair is kept to burn incense and thank heaven and earth. Cut the pig into two pieces, and marinate the rest in a jar for future use.

Tianjin, Hebei and other places have "Fat Pig Arch" holiday window grilles, which are cut with black wax paper. Pigs carry a cornucopia on their backs, and stick one on the left and right when they are lifting a towel, indicating the intention of making a fortune.

The wedding custom of giving pig's trotters in Shaanxi. The day before the wedding, the man will give four Jin of pork and a pair of pig's trotters, which is called "ritual hanging". After the woman leaves the "ritual hanging", she will also return the pig's front hoofs. On the second day after marriage, husband and wife should bring double dried noodles and pig's hind hoof back to their parents' house, leaving the dried noodles and returning the hind hoof, commonly known as "hooves come, hooves go", indicating close contacts in the future.

On the wedding day, the Bulang people in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, both men and women will kill pigs and treat them. In addition to treating guests, it is also necessary to cut pork into small pieces and string them with bamboo poles and distribute them to all families to show the meaning of "blood relatives".

In the past, the Han people had a folk exorcism activity of "killing sow ghosts". Whenever there is a disaster or misfortune in the family, the elders in the family will set up an incense table to sacrifice the sow ghost and make a wish to the gods to get rid of evil spirits. At the time of sacrifice, we should choose the auspicious day of the ecliptic, kill the old sow, put the spare parts, hooves, liver, intestines and lungs in a basket, and put them in the middle of the room. The host will burn incense and worship. After the sacrifice, the internal organs will be cooked and eaten separately. Folk believe that "kill a sow ghost and drive away an evil."

The Wa people in Yunnan have the divination custom of "pig gall divination". After killing the pig, judge the good or bad according to the pig's gall. If the gallbladder lines go up and down, there is more water in the gallbladder, which is auspicious; The gallbladder lines are left and right, and there is little water in the gallbladder, which is a hidden divination. Generally, it is used when holding major events, and it is decided by wizards at first sight.

Most rural latrines in the north are connected with pigsty, where people pull on it and pigs eat at the bottom. It is from this that ecologists discovered the food chain between animals and people. Unfortunately, there are few such "green" pigs nowadays, and they are replaced by compound feed.

There was once a respectable individual industry in China, which was widely used in rural market towns all over the country. It is "knocking on the pig". Break the young boars' desire for flowers and flowers, let them concentrate on fattening and growing meat, and implement the monopoly of prenatal and postnatal care-professional breeding station. The biggest unexpected gain of avoiding pig hybridization is to create a prosperous history of eunuchs. From "knocking pigs" to "eunuchs".

[ Edit this paragraph] Menu

Braised trotters

Cooking category: Stewed cuisine: Sichuan cuisine

Ingredients category: pork taste: crispy

Suitable season: autumn

Cuisine: Sichuan cuisine

Color and fragrance: fat but not greasy

Ingredients: hoof (1).

Production:

1) Scrape the pig's trotters, clean them, chop off the tips of the paws, split them in half, boil them thoroughly in water and put them in cold water;

2) ginger and onion are smashed for later use;

3) Heat a little sesame oil with a frying spoon, add rock sugar and fry it to purple;

4) add the soup and adjust it to light red;

5) Add trotters, cooking wine, onion, ginger, salt and pepper, and remove the froth after the soup is boiled;

6) After the pig's trotters are colored with high fire, move them to low fire for stewing;

7) finally harvest thick juice.

wrapped meat:

raw materials: pork tenderloin 3g, shredded ginger 5g, shredded onion 2g, coriander 1g, refined salt, cooking wine, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, fresh soup, water starch and salad oil.

Method of making:

1. Cut pork tenderloin into large pieces 7 cm long, 5 cm wide and .2 cm thick, and mix well with refined salt and cooking wine to taste; Mix starch with water and a little salad oil to make a thick paste; In addition, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, fresh soup, water starch and so on are used to make the juice.

2. Set the wok on fire, add salad oil and heat it to 6% to 7%. First, mix the meat slices with the thick paste, then spread them out one by one, put them into the wok one by one, and fry them until they are crisp outside and tender inside, then take them out and drain the oil.

3. Leave the bottom oil in the pan, add shredded ginger and scallion, fry until fragrant, add the fried meat slices, cook the juice, stir well, then put the pan on a plate and sprinkle with coriander.

characteristics: golden color, crisp outside and tender inside, sweet and sour.

ingredients: 75g tomato sauce, 3 bottles of iced sour plum sauce, 3 bottles of OK juice, half a bottle of Lipalin juice, 2g tomato sauce, 1 bottle of sugar, 1,5g white vinegar, 2 bottles of carrots, 3 tomatoes, 2 fresh lemons, 1 carmine and a little lemon yellow pigment.

Method:

1. Wash carrots, tomatoes and fresh lemons and slice them.

2. put the pot on fire, add 45g of clean water, add carrot and tomato slices, bring to a boil with high fire, then turn to low fire and cook until the carrots and tomatoes are crisp and rotten, remove the residue, and add ketchup, sour plum sauce, OK juice, etc. Juice, tomato sauce, sugar and white vinegar, stir well, then heat for a while, and leave the fire.

3. Mix the carmine and lemon yellow pigments with water, slowly add them into the pot until the color is golden red, and finally put the fresh lemon slices into the pot and soak them until they taste, so that they can be taken at any time? Each dish can use about 75 grams of new-style juice.

Features: 1. Carrots, tomatoes and fresh lemons are added to the new-style juice, which enhances the fragrance of fresh vegetables and fruits, thus subliming the taste of dishes.

2. The tomato sauce, sour plum sauce, OK juice, tomato sauce, etc. are added to the new-style purple juice, which makes the taste of the dishes more mellow.

[ Edit this paragraph] Medicinal value

Pork is sweet and salty, and has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness. Can be used to treat fever, thirst, emaciation, dry cough, constipation and other symptoms.

The pig heart is sweet and salty, and has the functions of supplementing deficiency, benefiting blood, calming and calming the nerves. Can be used to treat heart-blood deficiency, fright, insomnia, spontaneous sweating and other diseases.

Pig liver is sweet and bitter in taste, warm in nature, and has the effects of nourishing liver, nourishing blood and improving eyesight. Can be used to treat blood deficiency, chlorosis, edema, asthenopia, night blindness and other diseases.

Pork belly is sweet in taste and warm in nature, and has the effects of tonifying deficiency and strengthening spleen and stomach; Can be used to treat fatigue, emaciation, thirst, diarrhea, malnutrition in children, frequent urination and other diseases.

Pig intestines are sweet in taste and flat in nature, and have the effects of tonifying deficiency, moistening dryness, quenching thirst and stopping bleeding; Can be used to treat weakness, thirst, proctoptosis, hemorrhoids, bloody stool and other diseases.

The pig kidney is salty in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of tonifying kidney, stopping nocturnal emission, stopping sweating and promoting diuresis. Can be used to treat kidney deficiency deafness, lumbago, nocturnal emission, night sweats, body edema and other symptoms.

Pig lung is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of tonifying deficiency, relieving cough and stopping bleeding; Can be used to treat lung deficiency cough, chronic cough and hemoptysis.

Pig bone has the effect of treating dysentery and tinea.

The pig brain is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and it can be used to treat dizziness due to head wind, headache due to deviation, and mental decline.

Pig's trotters are sweet and salty, and have the functions of enriching blood, promoting lactation and removing sores. Can be used to treat postpartum hypogalactia, carbuncle, ulcer and other diseases.

Pig pith is sweet in taste, cold in nature, and has the effect of nourishing yin and benefiting pith; Can be used to treat fatigue, heat, bone steaming, thirst, sores and so on.

lard is sweet in taste, cool in nature, and has the effects of tonifying deficiency and moistening dryness; It can be used to treat dry cough with less phlegm, dry skin and chapped skin, dry intestine and constipation.

Pigskin is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and has the effects of nourishing yin and relieving sore throat; It can be used to treat fever due to yin deficiency, sore throat, diarrhea, etc. < P > Pork tastes sweet and salty, and enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians.

Piglets wearing shoes tonify kidney and nourish blood, nourish yin and moisten dryness;

it is mainly used for treating body fluid damage caused by fever, thirst, emaciation, kidney deficiency, postpartum blood deficiency, dry cough, constipation, tonic, nourishing yin, moistening dryness, nourishing liver and yin, moistening skin, facilitating defecation and quenching thirst.

Pork soup can make up for dysphoria, dry cough, constipation and dystocia caused by insufficient body fluid.

[ Edit this paragraph] Pig and History

The most representative glorious image in the pig is Pig Bajie, who was made into a naive, cynical, honest and daring monk hero in Journey to the West. At ordinary times, my chest is bare, my youth is gone, but I am generous, showing the true nature of a hero. But zoologists quit, thinking it was Wu Cheng'en's fatal failure. Because pigs don't have two nipples like people, but two rows.

yongzheng emperor in the Qing dynasty. Calling Eighth, who usurped the throne and seized power, "Azina" means Manchu pig. Since then, pigs have also been branded politically. The winner is "Rowen with a tiger's spirit" and the loser is "inferior to pigs and dogs".

In Er Ya Shi Beast, pigs are explained as follows: "Hey, pigs are also. Its son is called dolphin. One year old. " So, pigs, porpoises and raccoons are all pigs.

Since ancient times, pigs have played an important role in China families. In the "home" of Chinese characters famous for their pictographs, the "tapir" under its treasure cover represents the image of a pig. It can be seen that in the minds of Chinese people in the past, there was no home without pigs. In the old days, begging for a wife, taking a daughter-in-law and raising pigs at home were one of the important weights of love.

In addition, the Chinese word "tomb" means tomb. According to hieroglyphics, it is like this: people without pigs can't leave the world with peace of mind, or it is difficult to build a tomb.

[ Edit this paragraph] The spoken word "pig"

"Never eaten pork, never seen a pig run" inspires people's logical thinking of philosophical analogy.

"Pigs eat my shit, and I eat my shit" has become a jingle in people's entertainment. If you say it five times without making mistakes, it will test people's mobility.

"One horizontal, one vertical and one corner, four little pigs come to eat Zaer?" Type a pictograph of Chinese characters-traditional horse. Pigs are also integrated into education.

"A pig with a green onion in its nose-making a fool of itself". It shows people's indifference to headstrong self-use.

"pig brain". It has almost become a pronoun of stupidity for modern people.

"Pig, look in the mirror-it's not human inside and outside". It has also become a life courtesy that is often encountered.

"It looks like Pig's second aunt". It also reflects different aesthetic concepts.

"hog". It has become the most popular poker category, where the pig has become the "queen of spades".

"Hug-hug-hug-hug" is a national unified pig accent. Describing a master mahjong player, he also said: His hands are like a basket, and he has a lot of money. In fact, Pig Bajie's weapon is the shovel, and the hug-floor-hug is the pig's greedy voice.

"elbow meat", "pork belly", "tenderloin" and "mouth strips" are already delicious foods that need not be named as pigs. But "bag meat" and "water-injected meat" are also self-evident, and they can't escape the pig's relationship.

People show disrespect for each other. Pigs are stupid, and most of them are compared to people with weak intelligence and stupidity.

There is another kind that people who are fatter are called pigs because they are fatter.

There is a name called "Little Pig", which is a metaphor for a cute and fat person.

[ edit this paragraph] the origin of the zodiac.