Why do the Manchus respect dogs? Why don t the Manchus keep dogs

Because the brainlessness of the mite tribe is, respect its owner!

Upstairs is so powerful, I don't even know there is this allusion, hehe.

It turns out that there are stories of "dog rescue" and "magpie rescue" among the people. Legend has it that the ancestor of the Manchu people Nurhachi was once chased by Li Chengliang, the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, seeing that he was approaching, Nurhachi hurriedly hid in a pool of reeds, the pursuers were difficult to find, so they set fire to the reeds, and suddenly, the fire spread to the reeds, and the pursuers thought that Nurhachi was burned alive, in fact, Nurhachi was just smoked down, when the fire was about to spread to him, there was a yellow dog ran into the water, dipped in water, rolled on Nurhachi, the fire on his body was extinguished, but the yellow dog was tired and died beside him. Later, when the Ming soldiers came to search, a group of magpies fell on Nurhachi's body, and the Ming soldiers thought that the magpies were pecking at the corpse, and Nurhachi was undoubtedly dead, so they withdrew their troops and returned to the court.

When Nurhachi woke up, he found a magpie on his body and a yellow dog lying beside him, and then he realized that it was the yellow dog and the magpie that saved him.

The stories of "Dog Rescue" and "Magpie Rescue" may not be true, but for the Manchu people who used to hunt for a living, the dog was the left and right arm, and it was the main production tool for hunting for the means of subsistence. When the Manchus went out hunting, they used dogs as guides to track and hunt wild beasts. A good hunting dog can not only trace the news, but also directly catch the wild meat, so the Manchu people are very partial to dogs, and in some places when the Manchu girl is married, there is a custom of taking the dog as a dowry.

The magpie is a bird loved by many peoples, as the saying goes: the magpie calls, the joy comes. Therefore, the Manchu people are also very fond of magpies, and regard magpies as sacred birds, never harm, and erect long poles in their own courtyards to prepare food for magpies to eat.

Therefore, when we visit the Manchu home, we should not wear a dogskin hat or a dogskin coat, so as not to cause them to be unhappy.

It is because the Manchu people respect dogs very much, because loyal dogs were once the lives of Manchu ancestors.

There are dogs in the Manchu totem worship, and there is also a legend.

The Manchus have the custom of avoiding dog meat. Speaking of the Manchu people who avoid eating dog meat, there is a legend of "Yellow Dog Saves King Han". According to legend, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the soothsayer said that there would be a mixed dragon with seven stars in the northeast.

The imperial court secretly ordered Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, to arrest him. So he sent his troops and inquired everywhere. One day, when General Li was washing his feet, he said complacently:

I relied on the three moles under my feet to get lucky and become a big official. Xiao Han (Nurhachi's nickname), who was on an errand for the general soldiers, said innocently on the side: "Three of my lords are black, and seven of them are red under my feet."

Li Chengliang saw it, it was true, looked at Xiao Han in shock, and thought: "This is exactly a bastard dragon that the imperial court wants to arrest." He built a wooden cage prisoner car overnight, ready to send it to Beijing for a reward.

When the concubine Xilan, a poor soldier, learned of this, she couldn't bear Xiao Han to be victimized, so she took out two horses in the dead of night, and held an arrow to go out of the city, so that Xiao Han and his companion Wang Gao could escape. Xiao Han and Wang Gao ran desperately, but unexpectedly, Ma Lei died in the wilderness, and Wang Gao and Xiao Han parted ways and fled. Wang Gao put his boots on the road, lured and chased by mistake, and when the dawn approached, Wang Gao hanged himself from the tree.

When Mr. Li saw that it was not Xiao Han, he turned around and chased after him. The small rare soldiers chased after them, and hurriedly drilled into the reeds, but the Ming army could not find them, so they set fire to the reeds. At this time, the big yellow dog that had followed Xiao Han for many years jumped into the water, drenched his whole body, rolled beside Xiao Han, and extinguished the fire, but the yellow dog died of exhaustion.

Just as the Ming soldiers came to search, a group of crows fell on Xiao Han overwhelmingly, and the pursuers thought that the crows were pecking at the dead body, so King Han was saved. The Manchus revered their national heroes, so this legend was well-known among the Manchus, and it was interpreted as a reason to ban dog meat. In fact, dogs are loyal assistants in Manchu hunting, and the Manchu dog-loving psychology is formed in hunting for a long time.

Although the Manchurian Eight Banners stationed in many important towns in Guannai, such as the Manchus in Hangzhou and Chengdu, have been away from their homeland for hundreds of years, the taboo of not eating dog meat has always been strictly observed.