Pigs are very familiar domestic animals, and people call them the first of the six livestock. The pig is a veritable cushion in the zodiac, ranking last in the zodiac. The history of raising pigs in China has been seven or eight thousand years. In many ancient tombs, the remains of pigs were found in Neolithic human sites. Because they often measure their status and wealth by the number of livestock.
It is very important to bury pigs for sacrifice. At the time of family sacrifice, Chen Gou stayed in his room to sacrifice to his family, so "home" is a "dog" under Bao Gai, which is the origin of our word "home". Some people also explain it as raising pigs under the living room in farming society.
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Through their own efforts, the pig has become the zodiac. On the day when the zodiac signs were arranged in the Heavenly Palace, the Jade Emperor stipulated that they should arrive at the Heavenly Palace at a certain time. Previously, the zodiac signs were zodiac signs. Pigs know that they are stupid and walk slowly, so they get up in the middle of the night and queue up to be the zodiac.
Because of the long distance and many obstacles, the pig climbed outside the worse gate. But times have changed, so the pig begged, and so did the other six animals. Finally, they moved their minds and put the pig into the worse gate, becoming the last zodiac. In this way, "horse, cow, sheep, chicken, dog, pig" has become the human zodiac.
In ancient times, the cultural significance of pigs was not derogatory at all. On the contrary, pigs have become a measure of courage. Not only the meaning of "home" is to raise pigs in the room, but even the social activities at that time were centered on pigs.
For example, in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, whoever is "busy" seems to be catching a pig or a wild boar with a long handle net in both hands. And people's quality is also determined by the pig. For example, the word "dare" means to catch pigs with bare hands to show courage, so not catching pigs is cowardice. Pigs mean to go forward bravely.
It is said that since the Tang Dynasty, Jinshi met other Jinshi. If one of them becomes a relative in the future, please ask a calligrapher with the same theme to write an inscription on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in red with "Zhu Bi". Therefore, "pig" and "Zhu" are homophonic, and "hoof" and "title" are homophonic, so the mascot for young students is number one.
Whenever someone rushes to the exam, relatives and friends will present braised pig's trotters and wish them "calligraphy title". Later, this habit gradually expanded, and people gave each other hams, because hams were baked with pig's trotters. People also think that the "fat pig arch" is auspicious. The fat pig has become an auspicious messenger, so as the saying goes, "The pig is the treasure of the family, and the dung is the gold in the field."