Today is January 3, 2022, monday of the first lunar month.
The custom handed down by the ancestors - enter the Layue Gate and start "killing the Pig"!
In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, "killing pigs" was a luxury!
At that time, people didn't have enough to eat, so what to feed the pigs...
After 1977, the peasants' lives were getting better and better every year.
Not only can you eat enough and wear warm clothes, but killing pigs is no longer a rare thing!
No, early in the morning into the "pig killing" program - pig catching mode in the pigsty ...
Whenever someone kills a pig, the villagers come to help.
Killing pigs is also a hard work, without five or six people, it is not busy.
These few northeastern hans wasted the strength of the nine bulls and two tigers to firmly tie up the pigs.
"Pig's trotter buckle", that is famous!
Bundle up the pigs, and generally weigh the pigs in good faith to see how heavy the pigs that have been raised for a year are.
Now, the average pig is also more than two or three hundred pounds.
Today's pig feed is better than what people used to eat!
In the 1950s and 1960s and 1970s, most of the pigs were raised at 120 to 30 catties.
At that time, pigs ate wild vegetables, sake lees, chaff and so on.
After the pig was bundled, it was carried to the large table, and the pig at this time exerted all its strength and screamed, and the sound could be heard a mile away.
At this time, the pig killers came into battle.
Only to see him, holding a one-foot-long, extremely sharp special pig-killing knife, very skillfully aimed at the heart of the pig, the pig's blood flowed out along the knife edge, leaving it in a "pig-killing basin" that had been prepared for a long time.
Pig blood, but good stuff!
The famous dish of northeast China - white meat and blood sausage, that is really mouth-watering delicious!
This side kills the pig, the other side supports the cauldron, the stove pit is full of fire, the cauldron of water turns over the big flowers, waiting for the use of pig hair ...
Simmering pig hair is a technical job.
Hair master, that's no hair left!
Hair is also a delicate job.
The boiling water of the boiling hair should be used moderately and moderately in order to achieve a thorough, complete, and clean scraping of the pig hair.
Now, the people's lives are better, they are rich, and the cauldrons are all supported outdoors... In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, it was going to be scolded!
At that time, pig slaughter was carried out in the house.
The fur needs to be burned on a large fire, and the fire is directly burned.
Burned, burned hot, the temperature in the house is high.
At that time, in the winter, the homes of ordinary people in the northeast were frozen everywhere early in the morning...
After the pig hair is shaved, the next procedure is to open the chamber.
After the opening, the pig's heart, liver, lungs, intestines, head, hooves, etc., should be plucked separately, these are all good things for drinking!
After the pig's heart, liver, lungs, intestines, head, hooves, etc. are removed, followed by shaving ribs, unloading eight pieces, and so on.
Historical tradition, entering the Layue Gate and starting to "kill the Pig of the Year", there are many great truths in it:
Entering the winter, the wild vegetables of the earth are gone, feeding the pigs is difficult, and pig food has become a big problem ...
Pigs are not fuel-efficient lamps, and they are not easy to mess with.
When the pig is eating, if you don't feed it in time, it will emit a high and disturbing scream, and this sound can be heard far and wide...
Entering the Waxing Moon Gate, counting nine cold days, pigs are difficult to grow.
Entering the Layue Gate, the ice and snow are convenient for the people to use this natural refrigerator to store pork eaten in the New Year.
The slaughter of the pigs is over.
According to the customs and habits of the people in the northeast, "officials" such as the captain of the production team, the accountant, and so on, their relatives, and the three old and four young people who have courtesy and courtesy in the tun must be invited to eat and drink heavily.
There are famous "pig-killing dishes" in the northeast: white meat blood sausage, pork stew noodles, sauerkraut powder ...
In a rural area, dozens of households, most of them are "circle relatives".
Every family is a relative.
The seven aunts, the eight aunts, that people often say, may have come from this way.
The meal has arrived.
The invited villagers in the tunzi invariably went out from their respective homes to eat and chew.
Now look, this is a very ordinary and ordinary thing.
In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, it was a very big event, very ritualistic!
In 1977, after the reform, the countryside underwent unprecedented changes.
The peasants not only had enough to eat and wear warm clothes in every household, but they also gradually bid farewell to the mud and grass houses and lived in large turntable tile houses with bright and bright windows.
Gradually, in the countryside, flashlights, bicycles, radios, etc., are no longer rare!
Gradually, in the countryside, almost every household had telephones, televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, and so on.
Gradually, in the countryside, the peasants not only had their own mules, horses, donkeys, but also their own tractors, motorcycles, large trucks, cars ...
The "pig-killing dishes" in the northeast countryside have also undergone tremendous changes, no longer the monotonous "white meat blood sausage", "pork stew noodles", "sauerkraut powder", "pig killing dishes" are also ten or twenty big dishes - "white meat blood sausage", "pork stew noodles", "sauerkraut powder", "chicken stewed mushrooms", "dry sautéed cocoon pupae", "spicy meat shreds", "sweet and sour fish"...
The happy life of the peasants is really getting better and better every year, and it is getting stronger and stronger every day!