Killing pigs is resisted?
The New Year is approaching, and the lively smell of the New Year seems to be smellable.
Among the New Year's flavors, one of the indispensable ones is to kill the New Year's pig.
Despite the vast size of China and the different customs of different regions, the custom of "killing pigs" has been surprisingly preserved in many regions.
Even for some areas, if you don't kill a pig during the New Year, it is not called the New Year.
However, with the arrival of the New Year's flavor, there is also a counternote:
Resist the killing of pigs.
In fact, every Chinese New Year, there will be such a discordant voice.
Whether it is a marketing account to eat traffic, or a conspiracy of capitalists, it is undeniable that they have all come up with the relevant regulations of the state and made it clear that this is the country's regulations and is for your safety.
Don't be ignorant, and stop this bad habit of killing New Year's pigs quickly.
But this is just using chicken feathers as an arrow, and taking it wrongly, making everyone shout and beat him, and laugh and be generous.
The evidence they came up with came from the "Regulations on the Administration of Pig Slaughtering", and they said that the "Regulations" stipulate that pigs must be killed in designated places and designated points, and each pig needs to be quarantined to prevent carrying germs or something.
Therefore, it is not in accordance with the regulations for farmers to kill pigs in their own homes.
What's more, they will also say that every time a pig is killed in the countryside, it is inevitable to set up a banquet, and the neighbors get together, and after killing the pig, they will drink wine, and once they drink, they will easily make trouble, which is not good for social security.
This is even more nonsense, is killing a pig equivalent to drinking?
You don't kill pigs during the New Year, and I don't see you drinking less.
In fact, the "Regulations" do stipulate the designated killing of pigs and health quarantine, but that is the regulation of "commercial pigs".
The "Regulations" clearly state that in rural areas, there is no problem for individuals to slaughter and eat themselves.
The state not only did not stipulate that farmers were not allowed to kill New Year's pigs by themselves, but knew that this was a long-standing custom of the Chinese nation, and respected it very much.
If you look through the reports of major news, you can know that many cases of killing New Year's pigs are reported on the news every year, and these news are all positive words when reporting, such as Jimu News's report on January 17 "Killing New Year's Pigs to Celebrate the Harvest, Baokang Mountain Village Has a Different New Year's Flavor", which pointed out the strong connection between killing New Year's pigs and New Year's flavor:
As soon as the pig is killed, relatives and friends get together, and in the laughter, the flavor of the New Year comes out.
A year's hard work will all disappear in this moment, turning into a body of comfort.
On January 20 this year, Lizhou District, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province also held the first New Year Pig Cultural Festival.
People killed and ate New Year's pigs on the spot, laughing and laughing, and enjoying themselves, and the Guangyuan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism also reported on the New Year's Pig Cultural Festival.
And the New Year's Pig Festival did not start this year.
In 2023, Guangdong Province will hold the "Guangdong New Year Pig Cultural Festival", which is a provincial-level event, and the heavyweight is self-evident.
How can it be said that it is forbidden to kill New Year's pigs?
Another concern
How did the custom of killing pigs come about?
In the past, people were poor and couldn't afford to eat meat several times a year, so when it came time for the Chinese New Year, it was natural to improve their lives.
And when it comes to the Chinese New Year, after raising fat for a winter, in the countryside, the weight of pigs naturally rises, and the meat begins to be fat.
What is usually reluctant to eat can be eaten during the New Year, so in order to eat better, and in order to let the stove prince eat something good, the pig at home will choose to kill the pig.
What should I do if a pig is a few hundred pounds and can't eat it all? They often keep some for themselves to eat, and then distribute the rest to the neighbors around who can't afford to raise pigs, so that everyone can get the taste of the New Year.
As a result, the custom of killing New Year's pigs was preserved.
In the past, almost every household in the countryside would raise some poultry, some pigs, and some chickens, ducks and geese.
However, as everyone has money, they can afford to eat meat, and more importantly, the advent of the market economy has made the farms develop vigorously, and the prices of all kinds of poultry have become cheaper, and rural people have gone out to work, and there are fewer and fewer poultry raisers.
With the development of urbanization, young people are no longer staying in the countryside, and these customs are not inherited.
Nowadays, the custom of killing New Year's pigs is not as strong as before, and many young city people have not even seen killing pigs, and do not know that there is a custom of killing New Year's pigs.
Therefore, with the evolution of time, the custom of killing New Year's pigs may not need marketers to spread rumors, and it will gradually disappear and become a cultural festival of killing New Year's pigs in various places.
Nowadays, everyone feels that the taste of the New Year has become much lighter than before, but when it comes to not killing the New Year's pig, will the New Year's flavor be lighter?
As suggested by some netizens, it may be a good choice to include the killing of pigs in the intangible cultural heritage project.