What was the name of the pig in the Ming Dynasty?

In the Central Plains official language (refers to the northern part of the Yu Pu chat piece Zheng Cao piece) in the word "pig a a a a", a word for the onomatopoeia is undoubtedly. Local residents also call the pig more call "lao" sound. Now the old man in the rural areas of the Central Plains is also more evoked as "a lao lao lao".

Some areas in the south call it "dolphin tún"

Another

Ze fish - pig. zhv, the first sound. Similar to residence bar.

There are so many places that call it that now too.

The Chinese tradition is to avoid the first name but not the last name, so not Zhu.

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Ming Dynasty people were allowed to raise pigs as well as eat pork. Folklore has it that Zhu Yuanzhang also wrote a couplet to the butcher who castrated the pig, "Hands split the road of life and death, a knife cut off the root of right and wrong", so it can be seen that the pig in the Ming Dynasty there is really nothing to be afraid of. In fact, pork is one of the three sacrifices (sacrifices with cattle, sheep, pigs, three kinds of livestock meat, known as the jail, only sheep, pigs, known as less jail), the jail is thousands of years of national sacrifices of the highest specifications, it is impossible to change. From this alone, we can know that the argument that a certain dynasty did not eat pork is bullshit. --How are you going to sacrifice to the ancestors of heaven and earth without eating pork?

But the fact that pigs were banned in the Ming Dynasty is not just a rumor.

The problem was the famously naughty Ming emperor, Zhengde Zhu Houzhao.

This Emperor Chengtian Dadao Yingsu Ruizhe Zhaode Xiangong Hongwensi Xiaoyi, His Majesty, was a recognized oddball. His life seems to be dedicated to the interpretation of the three words "unreliable", to cite one of the most obvious example: he was not a good emperor, had to be a general, and then issued a decree, he named himself "General of the Generals of Weiwu general military officer Zhenguo Gong Zhu Shou," -- Zhu Shou is the general he gave himself, and the General of the Generals of Weiwu general military officer Zhenguo Gong Zhu Shou. --Zhu Shou is a pseudonym he gave himself, and he also knows that he is an emperor and then go to be a military officer is too unorthodox.

Banning pigs this thing, happened in Zhengde fourteen years in December. At that time in the south happened a big thing: Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao revolted. The news reached Beijing, our Zhengde Emperor, the mighty general can be happy bad, thought I sealed himself as a general, waiting for is not one day in the battlefield is a great show of skill, this is good, is sleepy when Zhu Chenhao send pillow to, and decided to Royal Palace of Justice, to be in the battlefield is a show of mighty general's might. --Of course, this decision to the ministers are scared, and again and again to advise did not stop, hard to let him run to the south.

However, he was only halfway there when the rebels let Wang Yangming clean up the mess before he even ran into the shadow of the rebels. The news was passed to the mighty general, the general was naturally full of unhappiness, but not over also came, can not turn around and go back to Beijing, then simply travel in the south travel.

This imperial decree banning pigs was issued on his way from Yangzhou to Nanjing. According to the "Wanli Wild Records" records, the content of that imperial decree is this:

Should you have a boar slaughtering pigs, it is an unusual thing. But when the Jennifer's life, and the surname of the word different sounds the same. Food with sores and diseases, y inconvenient. For this reason, the provincial Oracle local, in addition to cattle and sheep, etc. are not prohibited, will be the ragweed animals are not allowed to feed, and easy to sell slaughter, know that if you violate the law, this offender and when the house family, sent to the extreme side of the army forever

This holy decree what does it mean? The meaning is: I know this thing of raising pigs ah, is very common. But it is not coincidental, the General of the General of the army officer Zhen Guo Gong master (not to say that the emperor, and said "when the Lord", that is, with the name of Zhen Guo Gong), happens to be a pig, and the last name and the pig homophonic. And pork this thing after eating also get sick, so all of you do not raise pigs, not to buy and sell slaughter. If anyone dares to violate this, I'll have his whole family enlisted in the army for 3,000 miles.

-This imperial decree is very clear, the reason why Emperor Zhengde is not allowed to raise pigs to eat pork, Zhu, pig homophony is secondary, the main thing is that he himself belongs to the pig.

Of course, this is another ridiculous thing that Zhu Houzhao did. According to Yang Tinghe's "Please exempt from the ban on the killing of pigs", which describes the people's reaction at the time, it is said that after the issuance of the imperial decree, within ten days and a half months, towns and villages throughout the country, all the panicked pigs slaughtered and sold, so that the price of pork has plummeted to the extent that the piglets are buried on the ground.

Of course, such a ridiculous policy was unenforceable. Three months after the pig ban was issued (i.e., in February of the 15th year of Zhengde), Yang Tinghe, who had stayed behind in Beijing, submitted the "Petition to Waive the Ban on Killing Pigs," asking for the repeal of the absurd order. And by March, the Ministry of Rites said that sacrifices must use pork, this ban on pigs had to be replaced by mutton, but it is really not etiquette, so Zhengde had no choice but to authorize the secret use of pork inside the Palace.

A year later, Zhengde 16 years in the first month, Zhu Houzhao died. This absurd and nonsensical policy was naturally formally abolished.