When is Six Fat Days?

"Six Fats Day" is the best day, with six livestock and prosperous pigs as the leader!

About the culture of pigs:

In ancient times, pigs were often used to represent wealth and fertility as well as women. In the pastoral economy of nomadic people, it is difficult to raise pigs (pigs are not suitable for nomadic migration like cattle, sheep and dogs). From this point of view, many words about meat come from "cattle" or "sheep" and rarely from "tapir", which are very easy to understand.

In the era of small-scale peasant economy, the cost of raising pigs is higher and more valuable than that in the era of settled agriculture. Pigs in Shang Dynasty were considered as valuable and auspicious gifts.

With the development of farming, the stability of residence (nomadic economy is gradually replaced by settled agricultural economy) and the domestication of pigs, many words related to pigs have appeared, such as "home" (there are pigs under the house. Tapirs, meaning pigs), "long" (meaning toilets, that is, toilets lead to pigsty. People's toilets can also be seen in the rural areas of southern and northern China in modern times, which are examples of pigsty and pigs raised in people's toilets. )

In addition, we often say words such as "fishy" and "shy" are also related to pigs. "Zhou Li Tianguan Zhong Kui" said: You can't eat if you are shy. Shuowen explained that the so-called "fishy smell" is not the smell of meat, but "there are stars in the meat", which means that there are pieces of meat like rice grains in pork ("rice star pig" with parasitic pork tapeworm, or "pox pork"); The so-called "shame" means that the fat on the pig stinks.