Have you ever eaten rabbit meat in your daily life?

According to reliable information, Sichuan people kill nearly 300 million rabbits a year. I want to know why Sichuan people love to eat rabbits?

What are the benefits of eating rabbit meat?

You will know after reading the little common sense brought by this article!

Why do Sichuan people love to eat rabbits? Many people like little rabbits. They have big eyes, long ears, and are very cute and fluffy.

In the movie "Coquettish Women Have the Best Life", a girl cannot accept that the "little white rabbit" has become food on the plate, and she says to the boy with a cry: "How can you eat a rabbit?" Indeed, if a fluffy rabbit, all of a sudden,

Replace it with peeled and smooth rabbit meat. This picture is too beautiful to look at.

However, rabbit meat is indeed a delicacy in Sichuan, and Sichuan people can’t get enough of it.

According to statistics, nearly 300 million rabbits were sold in Sichuan Province last year, with an average of 9 rabbits per second. The annual sales volume increased by about 10%, accounting for nearly 70% of the national market.

According to data from the Sichuan Provincial Department of Agriculture, as a major consumer province, Sichuan’s rabbit industry requires about 150,000 tons and nearly 100 million rabbits imported from outside the province every year.

The rabbit industry is developed around Chengdu Plain, which is surrounded by many hills, especially in areas such as Zigong, where almost all are hills.

Although the climate conditions are good and the forage resources are abundant, it is not suitable for raising large livestock, so rabbits are often raised, and the local rabbit industry is very developed.

Rabbit breeding in Sichuan has a long history. There is a clear historical record of rabbit raising, which can be traced back to the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

The long history of rabbit raising has given rabbit breeding a broad mass base in Sichuan, formed a long-standing breeding tradition, and cultivated a large number of rabbit raising experts.

After the 1990s, Sichuan has successively cultivated three local breeds: Qixing rabbit, Sichuan white rex rabbit, and Yingjing long-haired rabbit.

Among them, Jiangyou City is the city with the largest number of rex rabbits in China, reaching 2.45 million. It was awarded the title of "Hometown of Rex Rabbits in China" by the China Livestock Products Circulation Association.

At present, in Sichuan, in addition to leading rabbit meat deep processing enterprises such as "Yibin Huibao" and "Hage Rabbit Industry", there are several manufacturers engaged in rabbit meat deep processing, mainly distributed in Chengdu, Guanghan, Neijiang, Mianyang and other major rabbit and rex rabbit production areas.

district.

In addition, there are hundreds of feed companies in Sichuan, such as Hope, Zhengda, Uni-President, Tongwei, etc., which produce rabbit compound feed and pre-feed with their own brands. The annual processing and sales volume is conservatively estimated to exceed 10,000 tons, and the development trend is obvious.

Rabbit meat is mild in nature, sour and cold in taste, enters the liver and large intestine meridians, nourishes qi, clears away heat and detoxifies.

Rabbit meat cannot be eaten regularly. Rabbit meat can be eaten in the late autumn from August to October in the lunar calendar. However, in the remaining months, it will damage the kidney qi and easily damage the yang. If the rabbit dies and the eyes close, it is forbidden to eat it. Pregnant women, those with yang deficiency, and children with acne are not allowed to eat it.

People with spleen and stomach deficiency, diarrhea and loose stools should eat as little as possible; rabbit meat should not be eaten with white chicken, liver, heart, orange, tangerine, mustard, ginger, celery, cabbage, and otter meat; when replenishing a diseased liver, do not use too much oil

Cook using hot and dry methods such as grilling, frying, etc.

Rabbit meat and oranges conflict with each other: causing gastrointestinal dysfunction and diarrhea.

Orange is a nutritious fruit with sweet, sour and warm nature and taste. Eating more will generate heat.

Rabbit meat is sour and cold. It is not advisable to eat oranges immediately after eating rabbit meat.

At the same time, eating too much can also cause gastrointestinal dysfunction and cause diarrhea.

Rabbit meat and mustard are in conflict with each other: they have opposite properties and tastes and should not be eaten together.

Mustard is warm in nature, can warm the body and stimulate the orifices, clear the lungs and eliminate phlegm.

Its pungent taste can stimulate the skin and mucous membranes and dilate capillaries. Eating a large amount of it can reduce blood volume and heart rate.

Rabbit meat is sour and cold in nature. It is opposite in nature and flavor to mustard and should not be eaten together. Mustard seeds are crushed and used as condiments. They cannot be used when cooking rabbit meat.

Rabbit meat and eggs are incompatible: they can easily produce substances that irritate the gastrointestinal tract and cause diarrhea.

Rabbit meat is sweet, cold, sour and cold in nature, while eggs are sweet, flat and slightly cold.

Both of them have some biologically active substances. If they are fried and eaten together, they will easily produce substances that irritate the gastrointestinal tract and cause diarrhea, so they should not be eaten together.

Rabbit meat and ginger are incompatible: eating cold and hot together can easily cause diarrhea.

Rabbit meat is sour and cold in nature, while dried ginger and ginger are pungent and hot in nature. The two have opposite tastes. Eating cold and hot food together can easily lead to diarrhea.

Therefore, ginger should not be added when cooking rabbit meat.

Rabbit meat and cabbage are incompatible: they can easily cause diarrhea and vomiting.

Eating rabbit meat and celery together can cause peeling and hair loss.

Eating rabbit meat and ginseng at the same time will cause poisoning.

Eating rabbit meat and green ginger together will cause poisoning.

Eating rabbit meat and carrots together will cause poisoning.

Eating rabbit meat and duck blood together may cause diarrhea.

Zigong cold rabbit (also known as spicy rabbit) is a traditional folk delicacy in Zigong, Sichuan, with a history of more than a hundred years.

Zigong, Fushun and Rongxian in Sichuan are famous rabbit-raising towns in the country, with an abundant supply of rabbit meat. People in this area also like to eat rabbit meat, especially cooking and tasting a dish called "cold rabbit"

, almost every family can make it, and everyone loves to eat it.

Not only that, as long as there are guests visiting Zigong, Sichuan, a must-have dish for the hospitable host to entertain the guests is cold rabbit, and the guests are often full of praise after tasting it; even Zigong people go to other places for work for a long time

and study, I often like to ask family members to do a little bit of it, bring a few bags myself or even ask family members to mail a few bags to satisfy their cravings.

Recipe for eating cold rabbit in Zigong, Sichuan: Ingredients: The amount of rabbit meat (cut into thumb-sized pieces) and dried chili peppers (dried chili peppers cut into small sections of about one centimeter) should be slightly larger.