Talk about the Pig in the Year of the Pig - the legend about the pig. According to the traditional Chinese Jiazi calendar, the year 2007 will usher in the year Ding and Hai of the lunar calendar. Hai corresponds to the last animal of the twelve zodiac signs - the pig. , Dinghai is a mountain pig. The twelve zodiac signs are determined according to the Big Dipper. The twelve zodiac signs are the energy of the dipper, which disperses and is the destiny of people. Hai is the symbol of miscellaneous water, which is the symbol of filthy toilet water. Pigs live in it. Sixty-nine and fifty-four are the four main periods. According to the principle of thirty-six birds matching the twelve stems, the lord of the time is the pig, and the twilight is the pig. The pig is the shaking star among the seven stars, also called the Giant Gate Star. But there are two calculations for the first day of the Year of the Pig. One is to use the first day of the first lunar month as the beginning of the year, and the other is to use the beginning of spring as the beginning of the year. That is to say, it is either February 4th or February 4th. February 18th is the first day of the Year of the Pig. Ding is a pavilion, which refers to the strong shape of all things. In the old days, it was said that Cheng Ding and Zhuang Ding had this meaning. The year of Ding is called Qiangyu; the name of Hai is Qianye, and the name of Hai is Qianye. All things are collected into a solid core. The name of Hai is Dayuan. Xian, "Haizang Renjia is the real trace", Haili hides the two heavenly stems Ren and Jia, and the year of Dinghai is also called Qiangyu Dayuanxian Sui. According to the five elements of Nayin, which are combined with sixty Jiazi and the twelve rhythms of five tones, Bing and Ding belong to fire, and Xu and Hai are the gates of heaven. Since the fire is flaming up, the earth is not down, so it is called earth on the house. People born in the year 2007 belong to the house. Earth life, as the saying goes, belongs to the earth pig, which means bricks and tiles. The resplendent roof tiles are a symbol of good luck and wealth.
Pigs are the first animals successfully domesticated by humans, so the Chinese character for "家" has "豕" under "倀". As the name implies, only a residence that can afford to raise pigs can be called a home. Home. There are many Chinese characters related to pigs. Pigs are also called pigs in Guandong and Guanxi, and pigs in Jiangdong and Nanchu. Its young are called pigs or pigs, and in some places they are called pigs or pigs. During the Han and Wei dynasties, Fuyu, the local ethnic minority government in the northeast under the jurisdiction of Xuantu County, was good at raising livestock, so they simply used the six animals as their official names, such as horse, ox, pig, dog, ambassador, ambassador, envoy, to call people Zhujia is an honorific title just like ministers and governors are now called. In the northern winter, pig ointment is used to protect against wind and cold, which is to apply lard thickly on the body. In "Journey to the West", Zhu Bajie's surname is "Pig", which is a fabrication by the author, but there are people with pig's nickname "Zhu" as their surname. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Shihui branch, Shiji, had a food town in Zhi (today's northeast of Huo County, Shanxi), and he was granted the title of "Zhi Gongzi". , that is, the fourth-ranked male among the five-ranked princes and princes, and his descendants will take the surname Pig as his surname. There are also pigs named after pigs. One of the founding generals of the Western Han Dynasty was named Chen Xi, and he rose to the rank of Prime Minister of Zhao. Eleven years after the founding of the Han Dynasty, he rebelled and was defeated and beheaded. Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty favored Qi Ji from Dingtao the most in his harem. After giving birth to a son, Ruyi, she was named King of Zhao Yin. Qi Ji invited the Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty to make Ruyi the crown prince. Liu Bang also had this intention, but because of the ministers' efforts to fight with Zhang Liang's plan, Qi Ji favored her. In the end, it was not possible to abolish Li Li. After the death of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Empress Lu killed Ruyi out of jealousy, especially cruelly cutting off Qi Ji's hands and feet, gouging out her eyes, pricking her deaf ears, giving her a mute medicine, and putting her in a pig pen and naming her "People are pigs", so people regard Queen Lu's vicious behavior as the most appropriate explanation of "the most vicious woman's heart".
Pigs were very important in people's lives in ancient times. There are many words about pigs in the oldest collection of poems, "The Book of Songs". "Zhaonan. Zouyu" says: The one who thrives is the best, and the best is the best. Five Ru. It's so sad! He is so tall that he has five crotches at a time. Yu Zouyu (the reeds have grown thick when they were born, and they shot out five mature pigs at once, and they all were shot. What a great skill! Penghao was born densely, and they shot out five smaller pigs again, and they still shot them all. (Chinese, this Yu man is really good at martial arts!) The pig in the first year is called Pi, the pig in the second year is Ru, the pig in the third year is Si, and the pig in the fourth year is Te. Zuo Yu is equivalent to the current Director of Animal Husbandry and Director of the Zoo. The more pigs are raised and the richer the food, the more competent the Director of Animal Husbandry and the Director of the Zoo are.
"Xiaoya. The Gradual Stone" describes the muddy roads on heavy rainy days and pigs being washed away. It says: "There are white pigs wading through the waves." In the poem, the pigs with white hooves are covered in blankets. It's called a hack.
"Bin Feng. July" records the scenes of production and life at that time. It mentions that "the two days are the same, showing off martial arts, talking about one's own possessions, and offering pigeons to the public." (12) Hunters come to gather in the moon and continue to hunt and compete in martial arts. If they catch piglets, they will cook them themselves, and big beasts must be handed over to the male.)
There is an idiom such as "pig suddenly brave", which refers to indomitable bravery. Wearing a rooster as a crown and a boar (a small boar's fur) as a belt around the waist become a symbol of bravery. Zilu was like this at the beginning. He dressed up to bully Confucius, who made a career of teaching. As everyone knows, civilization defeated barbarism and Zilu became one of the seventy-two outstanding disciples of Confucius.
Another classic, "The Book of Changes", also contains records about pigs. The Sixty-Fifth Line of the Big Animals describes the method of raising wild boars: "The fangs of pigs", that is, the length of domestic boars. Pigs need to be castrated (castrated) when teething to prevent problems before they occur, so that they can become docile. The meanings of the words in the I Ching are profound and difficult to understand, and there are books dedicated to explaining them. The most famous one is called "彖". Tuan is also a kind of pig. When it opens its mouth, its internal organs are exposed. This is why "彖" is used as the title of the book. kind of meaning.
Since pigs became domestic animals, they have become very common animals and not so scary. When Cao Cao in the late Han Dynasty saw Sun Quan’s military purge, he once lamented: "I should give birth to a son like Sun Zhongmou (Sun Quan), Liu Jingsheng (Liu Jingsheng) Liu Biao's son has the ears of a dolphin and a dog!" According to this, Chang Qian later called his son a dolphin or a dog, which meant that he was ordinary and not outstanding. The idiom "one dragon and one pig" compares the dragon and the pig to illustrate the disparity between the wise and the foolish. This is also an allusion.
When you say this about your son, you are being humble, but if you ask others to say it, it is like calling someone low and incompetent. For example, the generals of Cao Wei, Cao Shuang, and his younger brother Cao Yi, were accused of being incompetent by Huan Fan because they could not defend their family property and resisted the enemy Sima Yi. : "The beautiful lady Cao Zidan (Cao Shuang, Cao Yi's father Cao Zhen) gave birth to your brother's pig ears." Nowadays, people no longer use pigs and dogs as words of humility, but calling others pigs still contains an unpleasant derogatory connotation.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, Mrs. Nanzi of Wei Linggong was a coquettish woman who had an affair with the Song Dynasty. A popular folk song at that time said that they "set up your Lou pig, and return to my Ai Zhi". Lou pig refers to a sow. , AI 譭 refers to a boar, mocking the couple as a pig man and a woman, just like the later "Water Margin" when calling people a dog man and woman, it has the same meaning.
There is a story that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty invited Anlushan to a night banquet. Anlushan got very drunk and turned into a pig with the head of a dragon after falling asleep. He reported it to the emperor. Xuanzong said, "This pig "Dragon, can do nothing." The dragon is the elephant of the emperor, and as a pig, it will never be able to achieve imperial status. Later, when An Lushan launched an uprising, he failed in the end and was killed by his general Shi Siming.
Relevant idioms include pigs intercourse with beasts and beasts (not treating people with courtesy), Lu Yuhai pig (an error occurred in the copying process), pig hooves and rice fields (exchanging greater benefits at a smaller price), Liaodong Pigs (rare and often strange), etc.
People are most familiar with the image of pigs as Zhu Bajie in "Journey to the West", but not many people may be able to explain clearly why Zhu Bajie is called Marshal Tianpeng. In the "Book of Rites", the animals used as sacrificial objects have aliases. Among them, the pig is called Ganghye, and it is also called General Wubeak. The hyena refers to the long hair on the neck that is as hard as steel, and the black beak refers to the long black mouth. Marshal Tianpeng in "Journey to the West" evolved from General Wubeak. When he appears in the book, he is "really ugly: black face, short hair, long beak and big ears." In the Five Elements Theory, black is the color of the north. , the five elements belong to water, and the nine palaces are in the canopy, so Zhu Bajie "pardoned the marshal to govern Tianhe, and the governor-general was called the Constitution Festival." As for the general becoming a marshal, it is because the general has been in the position for a long time. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the military rank should also be Due to promotion.
The main role of pigs for humans is of course to eat meat. In the rural areas of Heilongjiang, killing pigs for the New Year in the twelfth lunar month of winter is a very important activity. When killing pigs, they must recite the words "Pigs and sheep are a dish, kill you" Don't be offended, die early and be reincarnated early, and you will be reincarnated in the next life." After killing a pig, every family invites relatives and friends to eat the pig-killing dishes. Pork stewed with vermicelli and pork ribs stewed with beans are all signature dishes among the four major stews of Northeastern cuisine. Northeastern people in Maodong rush around the season of eating pig meat every day. It is the happiest time of the year and the biggest highlight of Northeastern cultural characteristics.