One is a righteous dog to save the king of Han said. This is said to originate from the Manchu folk tales, they say also different, one said Nurhachu feet have a red mole, by the Ming Liaodong general Li Chengliang jealous, want to kill. Nurhachu in Li Chengliang's concubine with the help of riding a green horse with a dog to escape, the Ming soldiers then chased, first shot the green horse, Nurhachu fled into the reeds of the river, due to excessive fatigue and go to sleep in the Ming soldiers could not find the Nurhachu, set fire to the desert, the dog saw the King of the Hanking does not wake up, jumped to the river to soak the whole body and then ran to him, the reeds are drenched, the dog did this repeatedly, the King of the Hanking was saved, and the dog died of exhaustion. King Hank swore that he would never eat dog meat again. Yan Chongnian "Nurhachu biography" adopted this statement. And spring breeze literature and art publishing house of the "Manchu folk tales" in the second collection of "the story of the righteous dog" but said: Salhu victory, Hanking Nurhachu feast group of ministers and generals, his uncle Longdun early usurpation of power ambitions, taking the opportunity to Hanking drunk sent back to the tent, Longdun see Hanking drunk, and no one around, pulling the steel sword to kill, at this time, Hanking a big yellow dog, suddenly scurried to the tent, the first to bite wake up the king of Hanking, and then to the Longdun pouncing! At that time, a big yellow dog owned by King Han suddenly came to the tent, first biting King Han, then pouncing to Long Dun, after biting Long Dun, was killed by Long Dun, but King Han had already woken up, and soon killed Long Dun and pacified the rebellion. So the old King Han buried the yellow dog, and ordered no longer allowed to eat dog meat, wearing dog skin. It should be said that the historical authenticity behind these two legends are unreliable. Nurhachu not only did not have an uncle called Longdun, and it was nursed by Li Chengliang, only because of the foot long red mole, nearly killed, thanks to Chengliang concubine and the story of the rescue of the righteous dog is also incidental. Besides, if Nurhachu had formally ordered not to eat dog meat, "Manchu old file" should be recorded. Therefore, a late story can affect a long history of national customs, its authenticity itself is questionable.

The second is that the customs originated from the ancestors of the Manchu said. Zhao Hong, "a brief discussion of the dietary practices of Manchu culture," that: "examining the history, the real ancestors of the Manchu in ancient times in the long-term fishing and hunting life, the dog played an important role in people's economic life, and then people could not bear to kill and eat their meat, and gradually formed a taboo on the custom of eating dog meat." This statement seems to make sense, because the custom is formed in the practice of long-term production and life. According to this statement, the ancestors of the Manchu people have not eat dog meat. We know that the ancestors of the Manchu people are female real people. If the female real people do not eat dog meat, this statement is established, however, the fact is not so. The Southern Song Dynasty Ma Guo "Ma Zhai since the narrative" book wrote "Jin early female customs", the book said: "meet the Bone and the sheikhs **** food, then in the kang with a short table or wooden plate connected to the person set taoliang rice bowl, plus dagger on it, columns of finely chopped leeks, wild garlic, long claw, are salted, not to wooden dishes containing pigs, goats! ...... dog ...... toad and other meat, or burnt, or cooked, or raw sliced meat ...... "Bone beat is the Wanyan Department of female real people, is the founder of the great Jin State. In their feast table with dog meat, in the eating method that can be burnt and roasted, and can be cooked, can also be eaten raw. This clearly denies that the ancestors of the Manchu people - the female Zhen people already have the custom of not eating dog meat.

Third, totem worship. Sun Wenliang edited the "Manchu Dictionary" mentioned this statement: "dog is the Manchu clan system during the totem worship of animals, so the Ministry of people shall not serve its skin, eat its meat." We know that the name of the Manchu began in Huang taiji Tiancong nine years (1635) at this time, the Manchurian eight banners have occupied Liaodong, the nature of its society has basically entered the feudal society, there has been no primitive clan system. If the custom of avoiding eating dog meat in Manchu originated in the clan period of totem worship, then it should not start in Manchu, but should start in Manchu ancestors, according to the current common saying, suxin, do not Ji, Yilou, female genitalia are ancestors of Manchu in different times of the name. The name was changed to Manchuria (Manchu) after Nujin. It has already been proved that the Nujin at least in the period of Bone-da was a dog-eater. That is to say, either the early ancestors of the Manchu did not have the dog totem worship, or although there is this saying, but to the Jin Taizu Bonyta has been abolished. In any case, the Manchu taboo on eating dog meat and their ancestors' totem worship, but also lack of basis.

Legend has it that Nurhachi, the founder of the Manchu people, the Old Han King, was in a battle when he took a few men and encountered the enemy army. Numerous enemy soldiers looked to them surrounded, there is no choice, the old Han Wang Nurhachu had to let all the people are lying on the ground to play dead, this time just some crows and magpies flew over, and fell on their bodies. The enemy soldiers came up and saw that there were many crows and magpies falling on them, so they mistakenly thought that all these people were dead. This fooled the enemy soldiers, and Old Han King Nurhachi and they escaped from death.