Where is the custom of killing pigs?

"Killing the Year Pig" is a long-standing folk custom in Chengbu Miao Autonomous County.

"Nian pig" is a piglet raised at the beginning of the year and slaughtered after the twelfth lunar month. It's almost a year from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Pig feed is all "pig grass" such as sweet potato, radish, vegetables, grain, rice bran, etc. It needs to be cooked before it can be fed to pigs.

High nutritional value, easy digestion of cooked food, and glossy You Zhu fertilizer. This kind of local pork is especially sweet, tender and smooth, fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood, which can be described as delicious. It is very popular with local people. It is self-selling, shared with relatives and friends, and generally not sold to the outside world.

Eating "killing pig rice" reflects the host's hospitality and is generally very polite. Everyone is invited to be a guest at home, and those who help kill Nian Pig must eat wine at the table. The more guests, the better, which means that the life in the coming year will be as rich as "killing pig rice", and it will be more and more lively and prosperous every year. After a good meal, relatives and friends will buy the slaughtered pork and share it for the New Year. The owner will also send the pig blood he killed that day door to door in the community, in order to get closer and closer.

Related background:

Killing pigs is a traditional custom of the Han nationality. Families who usually kill pigs can't finish eating for a while, and usually sell them for money. Only the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is an exception. In the twelfth lunar month, most people will kill pigs to prepare jiaozi's meat and Chinese New Year's cooking, which is called "Kill the Year Pig".

Northeast nursery rhymes say, "Don't cry, son, kill pigs in the twelfth lunar month" and "Don't be greedy, children will be New Year after the twelfth lunar month", which to some extent reflects people's desire to kill pigs and eat pork in the next year.

"Pork soup": When the Chinese New Year is coming, according to the rural custom, people will kill their own pigs and then invite relatives and friends to have dinner at home. The main contents of the dishes are pork, such as fried pork liver, roasted bloodshot, cooked meat and braised pork. We call this kind of party "eating pork soup". After that, we will smoke bacon, fill sausages, burn pig's trotters and so on to prepare for the Chinese New Year. In order to prevent rot, people will hang it in a ventilated place until it is finished.