The pig is the earliest human domestication of successful animals, so our Chinese character "home", is in the "宀", under the "boar"，looks at the meaning of the word, only the residence can afford to raise a pig to be called a home. This means that only a place where a pig can be kept can be regarded as a home. There are a lot of Chinese characters related to boars. In Guandong and Guanxi, boars are also called swine; in Jiangdong and Nanchu, they are called swine, and their young are called pigs or hogs, and in some places, they are called dolphins or dolphins. Han Wei Xuantu County under the jurisdiction of the northeastern minority local authority Fuyu Department, good at raising livestock, simply use six animals as an official name, such as horse plus, cattle plus, pig plus, dog plus, ambassador, ambassador, the big messenger, messenger, called the people pig plus, as if now address the minister, the governor of the same is a respectful title. Northern winter wind and cold use ragweed cream, that is, thickly coated with lard on the body. The Journey to the West" in the pig pig as a surname is the author of fabrication, but to pig alias swine as a surname is there, the Spring and Autumn period Shi will branch son of Shi Boryu cognizance in the swine (today's northeast of Huoxian, Shanxi Province), sealed swine Christine, that is, the fourth of the five dukes of the Lord of the fourth rank, the Prince, the Prince of Zi Men, its descendants will be to the swine as a surname. There is also a pig as a name, the Western Han Dynasty founding generals have a ranked marquis called Minister Chen, official to Zhao Xiangguo, Han statehood eleven years and then rebel, defeated and beheaded. The most favored person in the harem of Han Gaozu was Qi Ji of Dingtao, who gave birth to a son, Ruyi, who was crowned as the hidden king of Zhao. Qi Ji invited the favor of Han Gaozu to make Ruyi the crown prince, which was also the intention of Liu Bang, but because of the minister's efforts and Zhang Liang's strategy, he finally failed to abolish the crown prince. The death of Han Gaozu, Queen Lu, out of jealousy, killed Ruyi, especially the cruelty of Qi Ji's hands and feet, plucked out the eyeballs, deafened ears, fed a dumb drug, put in a pigsty, named "human swine", so people take the Queen Lu's such a venomous behavior as "the most poisonous woman's heart! "
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Pigs were very important in the lives of people in ancient times, and in the oldest collection of poetry, the Book of Songs, there are a lot of words and phrases about pigs. Zouyu" cloud: he thrives on the reed, a hair five corned beef. In contempt of the zouyu! He thrives on the Peng, a hair five little pigs. In contempt of the Zouyu (reeds have grown thick, once blasted out five pigs in their prime, all shot, this Yu people good kung fu! Artemisia is newborn and dense, once again blasted out five slightly smaller pigs, still all hit, this Yu man is really good at work!) This Yu man is really good at it! The first year pig is named little pig, the second year pig is corned pig, the third year pig is fully grown pig, and the fourth year pig is special. Zouyu is equivalent to the present Director of Animal Husbandry and Zoo, the more pigs you raise, the richer the food, the more competent the Director of Animal Husbandry and Zoo is proved to be.
"Xiao Ya. Gradually the stone" describes the muddy road on the day of heavy rain and the pigs were washed away, saying, "There are rags with white hooves, and the masses wade through the waves." In the poem the pig with all four hooves white is called Speed.
The Bin Feng. July" recorded the scenes of production and life at that time, which mentioned that "on the day of the second month, the same pig was carried in the pig's pig, and the hunters continued to gather in the pig's pig and offered the pig to the public." (In December, the hunters came to concentrate on hunting, and continued to hunt and compete with each other in the martial arts; the piglets they caught were cooked by themselves, and the big beasts were handed over to the public.)
The idiom of "swine's courage" refers to the courage to go forward, wearing a cock as a crown and a boar's dolphin (the fur of a small boar) as a belt as a symbol of a good and courageous man. One of the seventy-two outstanding disciples.
Another canon, the I Ching, also has a record of pigs, with lines six and five of the Great Animal speaking of ways to raise wild boars: "gelded boar's tusks," meaning that domesticated boars should be neutered (castrated) when they grow tusks to prevent them from becoming tame. The words and meanings of the I Ching are so profound and difficult to understand that there are works devoted to interpreting them, the most famous of which is called Tuan. Tuan is also a type of pig that opens its mouth to reveal its internal organs, and the use of Tuan as the title of the book takes on this meaning.
Since pigs became domesticated, they have become very common animals, not so scary. When Cao Cao saw Sun Quan's army at the end of the Han Dynasty, he once exclaimed, "When you have a son, you should be like Sun Zhongmou, but Liu Jingsheng's son is like a guinea pig!" Later generations often called their own sons dolphins and dogs, meaning that they were very common and not outstanding. The idiom of "a dragon and a pig", comparing a dragon with a pig to illustrate the disparity between the wise and the foolish, is also based on this allusion. He said his son is modest, but to let others say, it is to scold people lowly and incompetent, such as Cao Wei's general Cao Shuang and his brother Cao Yi, because they can not keep the family business, can not resist the enemy Sima Yi, by the great farmer Huan Fan pointed out that: "Cao Zidan (Cao Shuang, Cao Yi's father, Cao Zhen) good people, give birth to your brother dolphin and calf ear." Nowadays people no longer use guinea pig or canine as a humble word, but saying someone is a pig still contains a kind of bad pejorative.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Wei Ling's wife Nanzi, a flirtatious woman, fornicated with the Song Dynasty, and a popular ballad at the time said that they "set up your Lou pig, a?' returned to my Ai boar," Lou pig refers to the sow, Ai boar refers to the boar, mocking them a pair of pig men and women, just as later in the Water Margin, scolding the dog man and woman is the same meaning.
There is a story that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty invited An Lushan to a banquet at night, An Lushan got drunk and fell asleep and turned into a pig with a dragon's head, and the left and right reported to the emperor, Xuanzong said, "This is a pig and a dragon, and there is no way to do it", and that the dragon is the image of the emperor, and that the body of a pig is not an emperor's career, and that later on An Lushan raised his hand, and really lost in the end, and was killed by the general Shi Siming.
Related idioms also include "豕交兽畜"(不以礼待人), "鲁鱼亥豕"(the process of transcribing makes a mistake), "豚蹄禳田"(exchanging a smaller price for a bigger benefit), and "辽东豕"(rarely seen, but rarely seen), and so on.
People are most familiar with the image of the pig to be considered the "Journey to the West" in the pig Bajie, but pig Bajie why would be called the canopy Marshal may not be more people can say. In the Book of Rites, there are aliases for sacrificial animals, including the boar, which is also known as General Wu Beak (乌喙将军). Gang hyena means long hair on the neck hard as steel, and Wu Beak is the long black mouth. "Journey to the West" in the canopy Marshal is evolved from the General Wu Beak, the book appeared in the book is "really ugly: black face, short hair, long beak and big ears" image, in the doctrine of the five elements, the black is the color of the north, the five elements of water, the nine palaces in the canopy, so the pig "pardoned Marshal tube of the Tianhe River, the Governor of the water soldiers called Xianjie". Sailors called Xianjie", as for the general became marshal, that is the general when the time is long, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the military rank should be promoted for the sake of.
The main role of the pig on the people is of course to eat meat, Heilongjiang rural areas in the winter months to kill the New Year's pig as a very important activity, kill the pig, but also in the mouth read the words "pig and sheep a dish, kill you do not blame, early death, early life, the next turn to the people". After each family to kill the pig to invite friends and relatives to eat pig dishes, pork stewed vermicelli, pork ribs stewed bean curd are the Northeast cuisine of the four major stew dishes in the specialty signboards. Cat winter of the Northeast, every day running around to eat pig-killing season, is the happiest time of the year, but also reflects the northeast cultural characteristics of the biggest highlights.