As a pig, most of them eat and drink until they are fat and strong, and become a delicacy on people's tables. There was once such a pig, in its pig life dodged four butcher knives, weight soared to 2200 pounds, body length of more than 2 meters, and finally was named "Pearl King" refuge in Buddhism, CCTV filmed the documentary "Legend of the Pig King" specifically introduced it, causing a sensation.
If you raise pets, probably no one can raise pigs, regardless of their posture, but the cost of raising is also prohibitive, especially in rural pig farmers, many people are in order to survive or subsidize the family, grow to more than 200 pounds, basically can be slaughtered. And this "pig king" in Zhejiang, because of the persistence of the great master, turned the pig life that should have been destined into a legend, and it was the "second master brother" who practiced?
Tall old man raises pigs
In 2003, in a village in Taishun, Zhejiang Province, a loud old man who was more than half a hundred years old dragged, and the life of a person was really boring, and in order to pass the time, he decided to go to the market to catch a piglet and raise it at home. On this day, when the old man came to the market early, he saw a group of pig cubs in the fence, and a white pig met his eyes, which could be described as a "pig", and at this time, only 90 pounds of slaughtered pigs began its strange life.
Gao Laohan had been wandering in the field to work before, did not earn any money, did not marry and have children, and he was alone and occasionally had his own nephews to visit. When he had this piglet, he gave it a separate room, three meals a day to eat and drink well and feed. Everything is spiritual, and when communicated with it simply, the piglet will make a humming response, and the old man's life becomes interesting. When The old man found that his own piglet rubbed the long meat, even if he was raised by heart, he still felt that the pig's food was much larger than that of the average pig, in any case, this is a good thing, isn't raising a pig for the sake of growing fat? The old man,who was originally silent and taciturn, also had a cheerful personality, and he boasted about how fast and humane his pigs were.
Originally planned to slaughter it for the New Year, or sell it, but the old man who raised it had a relationship with it. And this pig really lived up to the efforts of the old man, he gave it something to eat sometimes very advanced, and often accompanied him to drink some wine, and soon grew to the point where it should be slaughtered, but the old man did not want it to leave at all, so he let it grow wildly. Until one day his nephew came to visit him and found that the pigs in the pigsty had been visually measured at five hundred pounds, so he suggested that the old man sell the pig, he was worried about what serious illness the pig had, afraid that the old man's efforts would be wasted, and after the nephew's encouragement, the old man finally relaxed. While the butcher was sharpening his knife and preparing to do it, the old man would not let the master do it, and in this way, the Pig King escaped the first butcher knife in his life.
Dodged the butcher knife several times
When gao laohan made a final farewell to the pig, he found that the pig's eyes were wet, his temperament was unusually docile, and he seemed to know what was going to happen, as if he was calling for help. The old man suddenly changed his mind and did not sell, although because the pig's food was getting bigger and bigger, his grain was not enough to eat, the pig was strong, but the others were thin, and the old man was determined to continue to raise, and the pig escaped the first disaster.
With a robbery, the old man was more attentive to the pigs, and the reality was also grim, he had to borrow grain everywhere to borrow money, and he owed a bunch of debts. When the pig grew to more than eight hundred pounds, not only the villagers persuaded, but the nephew also patiently did the work five times, analyzing the risks he faced, the bigger the pig, the easier it is to get sick, it will be troublesome to pass it on to the village or people, and even scare him with the subsidy to take away him. When The Old Man decided to sell the pigs again, the nephew quickly arranged the manpower, only to wait for the Old Man to nod his head and immediately kill the pig knife, but this time there was an accident again. Afraid of what came, sure enough, he regretted it again, went up to stop the butcher, butcher and neighbors pulled away the tall old man to come to a quick battle, but unexpectedly, the old man broke free of people's shackles, directly pounced on the pig to protect it, fortunately, the knife did not fall on the tall old man, the pig escaped the second disaster, but the behavior of the old man was incomprehensible.
Since then, everyone has felt that he is abnormal, and even his nephew does not understand his extreme behavior. After two life-and-death disasters, the Pig King opened the hanging ground. By 2007, he weighed nearly two thousand pounds and became the "King of Pigs". When the neighboring village of Xiyang Town to set up a hundred family banquet on the fifteenth day of the first month, in order to please a good color head and meet the needs of the banquet, the person in charge of the hundred family banquet came to the door to buy the pig king for 10,000 yuan, this time the nephew of the old man thought that there was no play, but the old man agreed, and the matter was a little touching.
The reason why Gao Laohan sold the pig king: first, the foreign debt owed by the pig breeding was several thousand yuan, and the second was that the nephew's son needed high tuition fees to enter the university. Seeing that his nephew had been taking care of himself all the time, he wanted to do his best. When more than a dozen people came to lead the pig, the tall old man deliberately avoided it, and he could not bear to say goodbye to the pig king. The old man lived a listless life, and his restlessness grew emaciated, but when his nephew told him that the Pig King was still alive and was sent to the temple, the old man suddenly had a spirit.
Take refuge in Buddhism
The pig king, who was supposed to be slaughtered at a hundred feasts in the neighboring village, said that a highly respected old man said that being able to raise such a large pig was definitely not a mortal thing, and he did not dare to kill indiscriminately. So the people in the town raised ten thousand yuan to send the pig king to the nearby Lianfeng Zen Temple, let the monks raise it, and even let the abbot take the name of "Pearl King" for it, and then the pig king was even more popular, rice and fruit were available, in a donation box set up for the pig king, the food funded by many people, the pig king ate and drank every day to the belly round, so it gradually grew to more than 2200 pounds.
When tourists heard about the fame of the Pig King, not only people from ten miles and eight townships, but even tourists from other places also flocked to the scene, and the documentary "Legend of the Pig King" specially filmed by CCTV won the ratings championship after broadcasting, which made the Pig King famous. As the saying goes, "People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong", and the pig king is both famous and surprisingly strong, so he faces the fate of being slaughtered for the fourth time. A painter in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, wanted to buy the Pig King for 50,000 yuan, he was to paint the "Eighty-Seven Immortal Scrolls" on the pig skin, and was immediately rejected by the villagers and the abbot of the temple, the Pig King is not an ordinary pig, it has been endowed with mysterious power, it is impossible to let it be slaughtered again.
In 2012, the pig king gradually could not eat, and even had no strength to get up, and it left this world peacefully, at the age of 9. When the people rushed to send the Pig King on his last journey, the Pig King, who had been washed and covered with a blanket, was surrounded by flowers, and the monks in the temple chanted the sutra for the Pig King. Later, a 1:1 statue of the Pig King was built for people to visit. Because of the birth of the Pig King, the local economy and tourism have been driven, and many people have attributed it to the good luck and blessings brought by the Pig King.
Epilogue:
The pig king's comfortable and beautiful life did not escape the laws of nature in the end, and the huge rhinoceros-like body accelerated the aging of its organs, no matter how clever the medical skills, could not save its fate of eventual convergence. The pig king has experienced the fate of being slaughtered four times in his life, but each time it is like a divine help to escape the disaster, it seems to carry the magic of the marshal of the canopy, in the 9 years of the human world, living exceptionally moist and good beginning and end, it is under the careful care of the old man, in the neighboring village people's kindness and temple courtesy, it wrote the glorious history of the pig tribe, leaving a valuable wealth for the world. Some of the efforts are worth it, and even for a pig, you may get unexpected surprises.