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In the past, every household in the countryside would kill pigs. What's the point of killing pigs?

When I was a child, I looked forward to the Spring Festival most, because I could hardly eat meat at ordinary times. Every new year, I will kill pigs at home and eat enough pork. In the past, as long as it was in the twelfth lunar month, every household began to kill pigs, but there were many stresses on killing pigs, you know?

Pay attention to one, the time to kill pigs. Although people are busy killing pigs as soon as they enter the twelfth lunar month, they can't kill pigs for several days. First of all, they can't kill pigs on the fifteenth day of the first month. In rural areas, there is a custom of offering sacrifices on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. At this time, they can't see the blood. In fact, you can't kill pigs on the fourth day of the Sun Sea and the Lunar New Year. The sun and the sea stand for pigs, and it is unlucky to die together.

Pay attention to the place where pigs are killed. You can't choose the place to kill pigs in front of the hall or around the graveyard, because killing pigs has great suffocation and is not good for your home.

Pay attention to three, worship before killing pigs. Killing pigs in the countryside is a great event. Before you kill a pig, you must burn incense and paper. Today, the high-speed kitchen gentleman is going to my house to kill pigs. In addition, before killing pigs, pig butchers will burn paper in pigsty, which is to pray for the gods to make the pig's soul ascend to heaven.

Note 4. Share the pork with you after killing the pig. After killing pigs in every household, the pig butcher will take a piece of meat home, which means thanking the pig butcher for helping to kill pigs. In addition, pork should also be sacrificed to the kitchen god and heaven and earth. In some places, pork is also given to relatives and friends, which means sharing happiness.

Although the enthusiasm of killing pigs in rural areas is much worse than before, the unique concern of killing pigs in every place has been passed down to this day. Now the killing pigs in rural areas are slowly disappearing, people's living standards are high, and it is not so difficult to eat meat. Every household basically can't raise pigs, and they are all concentrated in farms. According to the regulations, private individuals can't slaughter them without authorization. So what if the taste in memory hasn't been eaten yet? Do you have these exquisite things about killing pigs there? Welcome to reply to the discussion.