Porcine transverse li is the spleen of the pig.

The pig's transverse tongue is actually the pig's spleen, belonging to the digestive organs, is long in the abdomen, and the intestines are connected together horizontally, like a long tongue, the Cantonese language is called "pig's transverse Lee". Cantonese people do not call the tongue in the mouth tongue, called "Lee"; business losses in Cantonese called "etching", and tongue homophonic, in order to avoid this "etching", renamed as "Li"; and because that spleen like horizontal long tongue, so called "horizontal Li".

Pig Hengli has the effect of reducing swelling, quenching thirst, diuresis, removing yellow, refreshing heat and detoxification, and so on. In this region of Guangdong, people like to use the pig Hengli soup, especially in the summer time can clear heat and detoxification, drink a bowl of the body feel particularly comfortable, Guangdong people are very attention to health, so the pig Hengli in a different way to cook.

Introduction of the pig:

The pig is a vertebrate, mammal, livestock, but also the ancient omnivorous mammals, mainly divided into domestic pigs and wild boars. Currently it is believed that the pig is the short name of the pig family of animals, pigs based on the different species, physical characteristics are different; usually large ears, long head, short limbs, straight nose, fat body, waist and back narrow as the main physical characteristics. The hair is coarse and hard, and the fur color is usually white, pink, black, brown, and fancy.

The domestic pig is a subspecies of the wild boar that was domesticated by humans, with shorter tusks than the wild boar, and is one of the domestic animals domesticated by humans, which generally refers to the type of pig species that is kept by humans for more than just food. In the medical world, heart valves from pigs implanted with human cells have been used for patient treatment, and pig ligament tendon transplants have also matured, so they are considered the best choice for xenotransplantation at this stage.