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I have seen many rural people pumping gas into pigs when they kill them. Why are you doing this?

Killing pigs has always been a traditional Chinese New Year custom in rural areas. In the twelfth lunar month, most people will kill pigs and prepare jiaozi and cooked meat for the New Year. Killing pigs was usually carried out in February/267/KLOC-0, and some of them came to the 25th in advance, which was full of joy before the Spring Festival. The whole village came to watch a family kill pigs. In a happy atmosphere, people watch the pig killer show off his spirit in killing pigs, joke while operating, and cut off the pig tail and throw it to the onlookers to burn it.

When you kill a pig, you should make an appointment with the pig killer a few days in advance. If you don't make an appointment in advance, it's difficult to find someone. When killing pigs, don't feed them one day in advance. This is to let the pigs excrete the excrement in their stomachs, so as to clean the pig intestines better. If you eat too much leftover food, it will easily go bad when cleaning the intestines. After the pig killer comes, we need to find some strong men to release the fat ones. Year of the pig? Take them from the pigsty to the open space in front of the main house and tie them to two or three benches with ropes. The butcher holds the pig's head down, while others hold the pig's body hard, pour boiling water into a big basin, put some salt in the boiling water and put it on the ground below the pig's head. Slaughter the neck with a sharp and long butcher knife. After the pig has bled in the basin, it can start shaving. Blow air after shaving, before dissection, before shaving and before dissection, so that dissection will be easier. The butcher blows the pig with his mouth until his face turns red, then blows the pig round, fat and bulging through the channel opened by the pig hammer, and then shaves it and dissects it. After dissection, pork is divided into pig head, pig shoulder and neck meat, neck meat, front leg meat, front hoof, front hoof, pork belly and so on.

Bathing after killing pigs is also a long-standing custom in rural areas. The whole family got together and happily ate the rich and warm New Year's Eve dinner, which is delicious and famous wine in noodles and rice, and can never be compared. Pursue and create a new year, sum up a year's hard work and celebrate a year's harvest, and enhance the unity, harmony and excitement of family and friends. Now it has become a tradition and culture. Generally speaking, it takes several hours to eat a soaked meal. After eating pieces of delicious meat and drinking cups of hot wine, we saw that everyone's smiling faces were full of bright luster. The men ate and drank enough, drank ginger tea around the fireplace, set the door, and the hard housewives packed up bowls, chopsticks and pickles, and officially began to prepare a lot of new year's goods to welcome the arrival of the New Year.