On the day before the Chinese New Year, everyone worked together to drag the pigs, tie them up, kill them, then dig a big hole in the yard, spread a thick plastic skin (film), boil a few pots of hot water and pour them in. Scald the pig, then take it out, remove the hair, divide it, remove the bones and viscera. Pig heads should be left to the elderly at home. It's been many years, and I remember. I think this is one of the years.
I'm from a rural area in northern Jiangsu, and we still kill Nian pig as usual, and most of them are killed by our own family, so basically we won't ask the pig killer to come and help, because we pay attention to a lively effort to kill Nian pig here.
Moreover, every time a pig is killed, men, women and children in the village will come to help, because every time a pig is killed, many people are often needed to help drive away, catch and tie the pig, so every time a pig is killed, as long as it is the owner of the pig, it will be very lively.
Moreover, after the pig killing, the owner of the pig will invite the villagers who came to help to eat the pig killing banquet today, and our pig killing banquet is more distinctive than the pig killing dishes in the northeast, because when we do the pig killing banquet here, we often put pots and pans for the pig killing banquet.
It is held outdoors, so the pig-killing banquet we prepared here can spread all over half the village. The smell will make people drool, so whenever we kill pigs, as long as it has something to do with the host family, we will come and join in the fun.
Moreover, the pig killing banquet we do here is basically carried out at the same time as the pig killing, because after the pig of the host family is killed, the processed big bones and pork will be directly put into the pot to cook, and these big pork and big bones will also be put into the pot to cook.
Most of them are cooked directly without cleaning. At most, when cooking pork and bones, put some green onions, fragrant leaves and ginger, simply remove the fishy smell, and other seasonings will not be put in the pot. Only when the pig-killing feast is done will you add the seasoning that suits you according to your own taste.
Moreover, we often prepare two kinds of side dishes, Chinese cabbage and sauerkraut, for the pig-killing banquet here. Therefore, we don't need to eat too much when we eat the pig-killing feast, because there are not many other dishes here in our countryside, such as Chinese cabbage and sauerkraut.
After killing pigs last year, pig owners will also sell some pork to villagers who don't kill pigs this year, and the price is quite cheap. However, in recent years, fewer and fewer pigs have been killed here. It is estimated that in a few years, the custom of killing pigs will end here.
Of course, we have to kill pigs. It may be that we are still relatively remote and poor here. My home is a remote village in Huichuan District, Zunyi City. Until now, our village is still a deep poverty village, not only killing pigs, but also many other customs are still preserved. Looking at the current social development trend, rural development is a good opportunity at present, and I believe these customs will always be preserved.
Nowadays, killing pigs is rare. There used to be almost one, but now there are too few.
Almost every family living in the countryside kills one, while those in the city can only look at the pigs and sigh!
It is rare to kill pigs now.