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What is the traditional six livestock?

"Twenty-five Years of Zuo Zhao Zhuan Gong": "For six animals, five sacrifices and three sacrifices to serve five flavors." ?

Six storage fingers: horse, cow, sheep, chicken, dog and pig.

Five livestock: one refers to cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs and chickens; One refers to elk, deer, pheasant, wolf and rabbit; Another kind refers to deer, bear, wolf and wild boar.

Three Sacrifices: Goose, Pheasant and Pheasant for Sacrifice. Three solid-colored cows

However, I remember seeing a porcelain exhibition in ancient times. There are introductions to three sacrificial bottles. There are also bronze materials.

Three sacrifices should refer to three cows with solid colors.

Because there are three bull heads on the bottle, most of which are white.

Visible, whether in China or Indian, white cattle are auspicious symbols.

Shang bronze gluttonous patterns, three sacrificial halberds.

Pink-green glaze three-sacrifice string pot

Three sacrificial bottles for changing glaze in Qing kiln

The order of raising six kinds of animals in China is as follows:

According to the known materials, the earliest domestic animals in China were dogs. Dogs are domesticated by wolves. A dog's left mandible was unearthed at Nanzhuangtou site in xushui county, Hebei Province, about 10000 years ago.

Followed by domestic pigs, which are domesticated by wild boar. At present, the earliest known domestic pig in China comes from Jiahu site in Wuyang county, Henan province, about 9000 years ago.

Sheep may have been domesticated from extinct red sheep. So far, the earliest sheep that can be confirmed in China appeared in Gansu and Qinghai 5600-5000 years ago.

Modern domestic cattle originated from bison in West Asia about 10000 years ago, and gradually spread to the east and west after domestication. Yellow cattle in ancient China were introduced from Central Asia about 5,000 years ago. Up to now, the earliest discovered yellow cattle in China is located in Gansu Province more than 5,000 years ago.

About 5,500 years ago, wild horses in Central Asia domesticated Ma Jia. Up to now, the earliest domestic horse discovered in China. Horse bones were suddenly found in many sites in Gansu Province from 4000 to 3600 years ago.

Domestic chickens originated from primitive chickens living in southwest Asia. Now it can be proved that the earliest domestic chicken raising in China was discovered in Yinxu site in Anyang City, Henan Province about 3,300 years ago.

This distant dog became our good friend, and the chicken was actually eaten by us in Shang Dynasty.

Of course, perhaps this order is not completely scientific, and perhaps one day filial piety biologists have made new discoveries, and this order will be disrupted again. However, relative to the problem of the sequence of six beasts, I still hope that archaeologists can recognize the existence of Xia Dynasty as soon as possible.

There is a saying on the forum that although you can't prove that the Xia Dynasty did exist, you have no evidence to prove that the Xia Dynasty didn't exist.

I have been in China for five thousand years, not a year less.

My powerful penis can't lack a hair.