What is the custom and significance of killing pigs?

Killing pigs is to prepare for the Chinese New Year, so most of the meat is broken into pieces according to the blood neck, tenderloin, hard ribs, late autumn and other parts, and stored in a vat with the filled blood sausage and vermicelli sausage. Han people have the custom of not using knives and scissors from the first day to the fifth day of the first month. Generally, before the New Year's Eve, the meat materials to be used in these days are cut and chopped according to the purpose, put in pots and bowls in the jar, and put out for a while to be processed.

The significance of killing pigs:

Celebrate the New Year. In addition to the Chinese New Year, killing pigs is also used to worship, representing the arrival of a new year and a new atmosphere. Prepare for the festival. China New Year is a traditional festival for China people. Every new year, all migrant workers who work hard outside go home for reunion. There are plenty of ingredients for relatives and friends to walk around, eat, treat guests and hold weddings.

Taboo for killing pigs: 1. Avoid using the sun sea or the fourth day of the fourth lunar month; In the twelve earthly branches, every day at sea represents the meaning of a pig. It is recorded in Jade Sagger that pigs are not killed at sea every day, but in China, these four words are very taboo, indicating bad luck.

Kill the pig once every three days, but don't kill the pig for six days. For example, 20 15 is the last year of B. It is unlucky not to kill pigs on ugly days, and it is unlucky not to kill pigs on every day of Shen, You and the next day. If you don't kill pigs on bad days, you'll be out of luck.

3. Do not kill pigs on the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In folk beliefs, it is January on earth and one day in the underworld; The first day and the fifteenth day are just the morning and noon of the underworld, and it is time to eat. This day is generally used to worship ghosts and gods, so it is not suitable for bloody things to happen.