What kind of animal is a pig?

Susie Scroffa, a pig.

Subspecies include: Central European wild boar (Sus scrofa), Southeast Asian wild boar (Sus vittatus) and Indian wild boar (Sus cristatus). It is generally believed that these three subspecies constitute the breeding of domestic pigs.

Pigs, omnivores. Pigs generally refer to domestic animals. The pig is the last of the 12 zodiac animals, also called Hai. Mammals, fat, short limbs, long snout, edible meat, brown skin, fat, short limbs, gentle temperament, strong adaptability, easy to raise, rapid reproduction, black, white, sauce red or black and white flowers. Pigs can be bred 5- 12 months after birth, and the gestation period is about 4 months. The average life span of pigs is 20 years. One feeds on domestic fat animals, which are cute when they are young, scary when they grow up, big nose and big ears, and gain weight quickly when they eat too much. Pig breeding in China has a history of at least 5600-6080 years. The pig's neck is very short. In fact, pigs are not stupid. In fact, they are very clever animals. They look simple and honest, but in fact they are a little short-tempered.

You Zhu is called "Wu Jin", "Black-faced Lang" and "Black Grandpa". According to reports from the ruling and opposition parties, people in Hongzhou in the Tang Dynasty raised pigs and became rich, which was called Wujin. The Tang Dynasty's Miscellaneous Notes on Yunxian quoted the Old Edition of Chengping: "A black-faced lang, also known as a pig." On the land of China, as early as the matriarchal clan commune period, domestic animals such as pigs and dogs have been raised. The pottery pigs unearthed from Hemudu Neolithic cultural site in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province are very similar to the current domestic pigs, indicating that pigs had been domesticated at that time.

[Edit this paragraph] Smart example

Recently, through long-term observation and research on the living habits of pigs, it has been proved that pigs are kind, docile and intelligent animals. It is neither as obedient as cattle and horses, nor as overbearing and fierce as goats; Neither ungrateful like a cat, nor flattering like a dog. In many ways, dogs are not as clever as pigs. After training, pigs can not only master various skills and movements like dogs, but also have shorter training time than dogs. Some specially trained pigs can dance, drum and swim; Some will push the car straight; Some clever pigs can also be "pigs and dogs"; Some people can even sniff out mines buried in the soil with their noses.

Pigs can also be guards like dogs. In the United States, some farmers use pigs to defend the land of the manor, and also bite strangers who have strayed into the manor. Another farmer raised two pigs to guard the pond instead of people in order to prevent cattle from being bitten by snakes when drinking water by the pond, and achieved good results. Pigs can not only prevent snakes, but also like to eat them. Scientists have proved through experiments that it is scientific to raise pigs to prevent snakes, because pig fat is thick, which can neutralize snake venom and prevent snake venom from entering blood vessels.

The sense of smell of pigs is also very developed. Underground in some areas of France, there is a very expensive edible fungus-black truffle. Local farmers regard pigs as powerful assistants for harvesting black truffles. Pigs can smell black truffles growing 25-30 cm underground from 6 meters away. Although dogs can also undertake this job, it is much more difficult to train dogs than pigs, and they have to be searched every day. If they are separated by a few days, they will forget. In this respect, pigs are much more capable than dogs. Even if it only searches once a week, it won't forget the skills it has learned.

Pig is an athlete on the playground. A few years ago, at the national farm exhibition held in the United States, a unique pig race was held. At the referee's command, the pigs with tags run one after another, and they will make a final sprint when they are near the finish line.

[Edit this paragraph] Folk customs

Before the Spring Festival, pigs are usually killed before the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the 26th day is a knife-closing day. No machetes can be used. Killing pigs in Zhejiang area should pay attention to "clearing with one knife", that is, killing with one knife, otherwise it will be unlucky. When entering the knife, the butcher will say "born into the body", and children and women can't watch it. After killing, put the paper stained with pig blood in the corner of the room or in the pigsty to show that the pig is not dead. Pig hair should be filled with blowtorch. After all the boiling water is put into the bucket, the lower end of the blowtorch is immersed in the soup bucket, and the upper end is blown with the mouth and around the bucket, indicating that the pig will grow fast and big in the future. When Joe wears pig hair, he should leave a fast hair on the pig's head and tail, which means "there is a head and a tail", and then put the whole pig on the stool. First, the pig's head faces outwards, leaving pig hair to burn incense and thank heaven and earth. Cut the pig into two pieces and marinate the rest in the jar for later use.

Tianjin, Hebei and other places have "Fat Pig Arch" festival window grilles, which are cut with black wax paper. Pigs carry a cornucopia on their backs, and stick one on the left and right when carrying towels to show their intention to get rich.

Wedding custom of sending pig's trotters in Shaanxi. The day before the wedding, the man will give four Jin of pork and a pair of pig's trotters, which is called "gift hanging". After the woman leaves the "ritual hanging", she will also return the pig's front hoof. On the second day after marriage, husband and wife should take double dried noodles and pig's hind hoof back to their parents' house, leave the dried noodles and return the hind hoof, commonly known as "hoof comes, hoof goes", which means that they will have close contacts in the future.

On the wedding day, both men and women of the Bulang nationality in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province will kill pigs and treat them. In addition to treating guests, it is also necessary to cut pork into small pieces and string them with bamboo poles and distribute them to all families to show the meaning of "blood relatives".

Han people used to have a folk exorcism activity of "killing sow ghosts". Whenever there is a disaster or misfortune at home, the elders at home will set up incense tables to worship the sow ghost and make a wish to the gods to exorcise evil spirits. When offering sacrifices, you should choose the auspicious day of the zodiac, kill the old sow, and put the extra parts, hooves, liver, intestines and lungs in a basket and put them in the middle of the room. The host will burn incense and worship. After the sacrifice, the internal organs will be cooked and eaten separately. Folk believe that "kill a sow ghost and drive away an evil."

The Wa people in Yunnan have the divination custom of "pig bile divination". After killing the pig, judge whether it is good or bad according to the pig bile. If the gallbladder lines are up and down, there is more water in the gallbladder, which is auspicious; The gallbladder lines are left and right, and there is little water in the gallbladder, which is a hidden divination. Generally, it is used when holding major events, and it is decided by the wizard at first sight.

The toilets in the northern rural areas are connected to the pigsty in Otawa, where people pull on it and pigs eat at the bottom. It is from this that ecologists discovered the food chain between animals and people. Unfortunately, there are few such "green" pigs now, and they are replaced by compound feed.

China used to have a decent individual industry, which wandered widely in rural market towns all over the country. It is "knocking on the pig". Break the boar's desire for flowers and plants, let them concentrate on fattening and fattening, and implement the monopoly of prenatal and postnatal care-professional breeding station. The biggest unexpected gain of avoiding pig hybridization is to create the prosperous history of eunuchs. From "knocking pigs" to "eunuchs".

[Edit this paragraph] menu

Braised trotters

Cooking category: stew: Sichuan cuisine

Ingredients: pork taste: crispy

Suitable season: autumn

Gourmet: Sichuan cuisine

Color and fragrance: fat but not greasy

Ingredients: hoof (1)

Accessories: salt onion 13g, ginger 8g, sesame oil cooking wine 25g, pepper 5g, rock sugar 50g, soup 1300g.

Making:

1) Scrape pig's trotters, chop off claw tips, cut them in half, cook them thoroughly with clear water and put them in cold water;

2) Mashing ginger and onion for later use;

3) Heat a little sesame oil with a frying spoon, add rock sugar and fry it into purple;

4) add the soup and adjust it to light red;

5) adding pig's trotters, cooking wine, onion, ginger, salt and pepper, and removing floating foam after the soup is boiled;

6) After the pig's trotters are colored on a big fire, move them to a small fire for stewing;

7) finally harvesting the thick juice.

Packaged meat:

Ingredients: pork tenderloin 300g shredded ginger 5g shredded onion 20g coriander 10g refined salt, cooking wine, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, fresh soup, water starch and salad oil.

Method:

1. Pork tenderloin is cut into chunks 7 cm long, 5 cm wide and 0.2 cm thick, and mixed with refined salt and cooking wine. Mix starch with water and a little salad oil to make a thick paste; In addition, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, fresh soup and water starch are used to make juice.

2. Set the wok on fire, add salad oil and heat it to 60% to 70% heat. First, mix the meat slices with the thick paste, then spread them out one by one, put them in a wok one by one, fry them until they are crisp outside and tender inside, and then take them out and drain them.

3. Leave the bottom oil in the pot, add shredded ginger and scallion, stir-fry until fragrant, add the fried meat slices, cook the juice, stir well, then put it in the pot and sprinkle with coriander.

Features: golden color, crisp outside and tender inside, sweet and sour.

Ingredients: 750g tomato sauce, 3 bottles of iced plum sauce, 3 bottles of OK juice, half a bottle of Libalin juice, 200g tomato sauce, sugar 1 bottle, white vinegar 1500g, 2 bottles of carrots, 3 tomatoes, 2 fresh lemons, carmine 1 and a little lemon yellow pigment.

Method:

1. Wash carrots, tomatoes and fresh lemons and slice them.

2. Put the pot on the fire, add 4500g water, add carrots and tomatoes into slices, bring to a boil with high fire, then cook with low fire until the carrots and tomatoes are crisp and rotten, remove residues, and add tomato sauce, sour plum soup, ok juice, etc. Juice, tomato sauce, sugar and white vinegar, stir well, then heat for a while and leave the fire.

3. Mix the carmine and lemon yellow pigments with water and slowly add them into the pot until the color is golden yellow. Finally, put the fresh lemon slices in the pot, soak them until they taste good, and you can take them at any time? Each dish can use about 75 grams of new fruit juice.

Features: 1. Carrots, tomatoes and fresh lemons are added to the new fruit juice, which increases the fragrance of fresh vegetables and fruits and sublimates the taste of dishes.

2. Tomato sauce, sour plum sauce, OK juice, tomato sauce, etc. New purple juice is added to make the dishes more mellow.

[Edit this paragraph] Medicinal value

Pork tastes sweet and salty, and has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness. Can be used for treating fever, thirst, emaciation, dry cough, constipation and other symptoms.

The pig's heart is sweet and salty, and it has the effects of tonifying deficiency and benefiting blood, calming the heart and calming the nerves; Can be used for treating diseases such as heart-blood deficiency, palpitation, insomnia, spontaneous sweating, etc.

Pig liver is sweet, bitter and warm, and has the effects of nourishing liver and improving eyesight; Can be used for treating diseases such as blood deficiency, chlorosis, edema, asthenopia, and night blindness.

Pork belly is sweet and warm, and has the effects of tonifying deficiency and strengthening spleen and stomach; Can be used for treating fatigue, emaciation, thirst, diarrhea, malnutrition of children, frequent micturition and other diseases.

Pig intestines are sweet and flat, and have the effects of nourishing deficiency, moistening dryness, quenching thirst and stopping bleeding; Can be used for treating weakness, thirst, proctoptosis, hemorrhoid, hematochezia and other diseases.

Pig kidney is salty and flat, and has the effects of tonifying kidney, stopping nocturnal emission, stopping sweating and promoting diuresis; Can be used for treating kidney deficiency deafness, lumbago, nocturnal emission, night sweats, and body edema.

Pig lungs are sweet and flat, and have the effects of tonifying deficiency, relieving cough and stopping bleeding; Can be used for treating cough due to lung deficiency, chronic cough and hemoptysis.

Pig bones have the effect of treating dysentery and ringworm sores.

Pig brain is sweet and cold, which can cure dizziness, headache and mental decline.

Pig's trotters are sweet and salty, and have the effects of enriching blood, promoting lactation and removing sores; Can be used for treating diseases such as postpartum hypogalactia, carbuncle and ulcer.

Pig pith is sweet and cold, which has the effect of nourishing yin and benefiting pith; Can be used for treating fatigue, fever, bone steaming, thirst, sores, etc.

Lard is sweet, cool, and has the function of nourishing deficiency and moistening dryness; Can be used for treating dry cough with scanty phlegm, dry and chapped skin, dry intestine and constipation.

Pigskin is sweet, cool, and has the effect of nourishing yin and relieving sore throat; Can be used for treating fever due to yin deficiency, sore throat and diarrhea.

Pork tastes sweet, salty and flat, and enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians;

Piglets wear shoes to tonify kidney and nourish blood, nourish yin and moisten dryness;

Indications are fever, body fluid injury, thirst, emaciation, kidney deficiency, postpartum blood deficiency, dry cough, constipation, tonic, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing liver and yin, moistening skin, relaxing bowels and quenching thirst.

Pork soup can make up for irritability, dry cough, constipation, dystocia and other symptoms caused by insufficient body fluid.

[Edit this paragraph] Pig and history

Pig Bajie is the most representative glorious image among pigs. He is portrayed as a naive, cynical, honest and bold monk hero in The Journey to the West. At ordinary times, I am open-minded, my youth is gone, but I am generous and full of heroic qualities. But zoologists quit, thinking it was Wu Cheng'en's fatal failure. Because pigs don't have two nipples like people, but two rows.

Yong Zhengdi in Qing Dynasty. Called VIII, the usurper of power, "Ajina" means Manchu pig. Since then, pigs have also been branded politically. The winner is "Rowen", and the loser is "pigs and dogs are inferior".

In Er Ya Shi Beast, the pig is explained like this: "Hey, the pig is also. Its son is called dolphin. One year old. " So, pigs, dolphins and raccoons are all pigs.

Since ancient times, pigs have always played an important role in China's family. In the "home" of Chinese characters in China, which is famous for its hieroglyphics, the "tapir" under its cover represents the image of a pig. It can be seen that in the minds of China people in the past, there was no home without pigs. In the old society, begging for a wife, marrying a daughter-in-law and raising pigs at home were one of the important weights of love.

In addition, the Chinese character "tomb" means tomb. According to hieroglyphics, it is like this: people without pigs can't leave this world with peace of mind, or it is difficult to build a tomb.

[Edit this paragraph] Spoken "pig"

"I have never eaten pork, and I have never seen a pig run", which inspires people's logical thinking of philosophical analogy.

"Pigs eat my shit and I eat my shit" has become a jingle in people's entertainment. Say it five times without making mistakes, and test people's mobility.

"One horizontal and one vertical corner, four little pigs come to eat Zhaer?" Type the hieroglyphics of Chinese characters-traditional horses. Pigs are also integrated into education.

A pig with an onion in its nose-making a fool of itself. It shows people's disregard for headstrong.

"Pig brain" has almost become synonymous with modern stupidity.

"Pig Bajie looks in the mirror-inside and outside are not people". It has also become a common life etiquette.

"second aunt who looks like pig eight quit." It also embodies different aesthetic concepts.

On the Princess. It has become the most popular poker category, in which the pig has become the "queen of spades".

"Hug, hug, hug" is a unified pig cavity in China. Describing a mahjong master, he also said: hands are like baskets, and there is a lot of money. In fact, Pig Bajie's weapon is a shovel, and hug-floor-hug is the voice of pig greed.

"elbow pork", "pork belly", "tenderloin" and "mouth strips" are already delicious without the need to name them pigs. But "bag meat" and "water-injected meat" are also self-evident, and they can't escape the relationship between pigs.

The disrespect between people, pigs are stupid, and most of them are compared to people with weak intelligence and stupid people.

There is also a kind of pig that calls fatter people pigs because pigs are fatter.

There is a name called "Little Pig", which is a metaphor for a cute and fat person.

[Edit this paragraph] The origin of the zodiac

Origin 1:

As the Tang Priest went to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures, he also touched the Jade Emperor. In order to inherit the spirit of heaven and earth, the three disciples of Tang Priest will be included in human beings by default. Friar Sand was a monster in his last life, so it was inconvenient to arrange for him to associate with animals, so he only accepted three people: Monkey Sun, Pig Bajie and Bai.

Origin 2:

In ancient times, there was a gentleman who was rich and prolific and had no children under his knees. Who knows that when I was near the flower, I got a son. The family is happy, relatives and friends * * *, and there is a big banquet outside to celebrate the successors.

On the occasion of the holidays, a fortune teller came to see the child. When he saw the child's forehead was wide, his face was big, his ears were wide, his wheels were round, his heaven was full, and he was fat in vain. He asserted that the child must be a rich man.

The fat boy was born in happiness, but he was small in happiness. From an early age, he only knew how to reach out with clothes, how to make a living, how to make a living and how to farm. He just spent a lot of time loafing around, thinking that his fate was fixed and he was extremely rich and didn't have to work hard. I didn't know that when children grew up, their parents died, their wealth declined, their land was sold, and their servants were scattered. The fat boy continued to spend money like water until he finally starved to death in his room. After his death, the fat boy still lingered on, complaining to the underworld, saying that he was born rich and could not die so miserably. Yan took the ghost to the jade emperor in heaven and asked him to arbitrate. The jade emperor called the kitchen god on earth. When asked how the man with a rich face starved to death in the room, the chef released the fat boy from his study and research. When the Jade Emperor heard this, he was furious and told the officers to obey the order and told Fat Boy to wait for his life. The Jade Emperor said, "Although you are lucky, you are lazy, so you are punished as a pig to eat coarse chaff." This period of time coincides with the choice of the zodiac in Tiangong. The official in this heavenly palace listened to "eating coarse chaff" as "being a zodiac". Immediately put the fat man back to reality. From then on, the fat man became a pig and ate coarse chaff, which became the zodiac.

Origin 3:

Pigs have become the zodiac by their own efforts. On the day when the zodiac signs were arranged in the Heavenly Palace, the Jade Emperor stipulated that they must arrive at the Heavenly Palace at a certain time, and the first zodiac sign was regarded as the zodiac sign. Knowing that he was stupid and walked slowly, the pig got up in the middle of the night and hurried to queue up to do the zodiac. Because of the distance and many obstacles, the pig climbed to the Nantianmen very hard, but the time for arranging the twelve zodiac animals has passed, but the pig begged, and the other five animals also begged. Finally, he moved his mind and put the pig into the worse gate, becoming the last zodiac sign. In this way, horses, cows, sheep, chickens, dogs and pigs have all become human zodiac signs.

[Edit this paragraph] Types of pigs

You Zhu is called "Big Yorkshire Pig". Originally from Britain, it is specially called "British Large White Pig". After being introduced into the Soviet Union, it became a "Soviet white pig" after long-term domestication and cultivation. The latter is stronger than the former, with strong limbs and suitable for grazing. It was cultivated in England in the18th century.

Yorkshire pig is a famous pig. Originated in Yorkshire, England (an old county in the northeast of England, 1974 was divided into North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire), which was made by crossing local pigs with China pigs. The whole body is white, and the ears stand up forward. There are three kinds, big, medium and small, which are called "big white pig", "medium white pig" and "small white pig" respectively. Large white pig belongs to cured meat type and is the most widely distributed pig breed in the world. When you grow up, adult boars weigh 300 to 500 Jin and sows 200 to 350 Jin. Strong reproductive ability, 10 to 12 litters per fetus. Xiaobai pig is precocious and fattening, belonging to obesity type. The size of Chinese white pig is between the two and belongs to meat type. There are many large white pigs in China.

Landrace is the general name of China Landrace. The famous pickled pig breed. Originated in Denmark. It is a cross between a local pig and a large white pig. All white. The body drive is long and streamlined. Long and narrow head, big ears hanging forward, straight back, developed hindquarters, plump thighs and high limbs. Fast growth rate and high feed utilization rate. Thin skin and thin flesh. Eleven to twelve nests per nest. Adult boars weigh 400 to 500 kilograms, and sows weigh about 300 kilograms. Need better feeding and management conditions. All over the world.

Hampton pig is a famous pig breed. /kloc-At the beginning of the 9th century, it was exported to the United States from Hampshire, England, and crossbred in Kentucky. The coat is black, and the shoulder and neck joints and forelimbs are white. The nose is slightly long and straight, upright. The body is long and muscular Adult boars weigh 3 15 to 4 10 kg, and sows weigh 250 to 340 kg. Early maturity and medium fecundity, with an average of 8.66 litters per litter. Strong motherhood. Carcass quality is high, and the proportion of lean meat is large.

Bo breed pig is a famous pig breed. Native to the United States. It is a hybrid of China pig, Russian pig and British pig. Originally a fat type, it has now been cultivated into a meat type. The whole body is black and has the characteristics of six whites. The nose is straight and the ears are drooping. Large, adult boars weigh 390 to 450 kilograms, and sows weigh 300 to 400 kilograms. Early maturity and easy fattening, good carcass quality; However, the fecundity is weak, about 8 per litter.