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Old almanac terminology: What does it mean to collect livestock?

Huang Li's explanation of collecting livestock: buying livestock. On the day when rural people buy livestock, it will make six livestock flourish and increase wealth for families.

Domestic animals are highly domesticated animals and social products of long-term human labor. They have unique economic characteristics and can meet human needs. They have formed different varieties, which can reproduce normally under the condition of artificial breeding, and can change with the change of artificial selection and production direction, and their characters can be inherited stably.

Generally speaking, the common livestock feeding methods are house feeding, enclosure feeding, captive breeding and grazing. The earliest breeding of livestock originated more than 10,000 years ago, which represents one of the important developments of human civilization. Livestock has made great contributions to providing a stable food source. The "six livestock" mentioned by China people in ancient times refers to horses, cows, sheep, chickens, dogs and pigs, that is, the six most common domestic animals in ancient China.