Why did the ancient people treat pigs so badly, and what did pigs do wrong?

Pigs didn't do anything wrong, what was wrong was how people treated pigs.

Pigs are one of the most important animals today, and without them, history would have gone backwards, countries would have fallen into danger, and people would have gone hungry. In the eyes of many people, pigs are really lazy, and insults and contempt are common things.

The pig was tamed by humans by chance, and the ** animal that once appeared in groups in the fields of the ancients turned around and became a docile big guy who was slaughtered by others. After more than 1,000 years of domestication, the domestic pig was born, and its characteristics such as easy to feed, grow meat quickly, and give birth to more quickly spread to the entire Central Plains. The status of the pig has reached its peak, the pig was worshiped as a god by the ancients, and the number of pigs even determines the family wealth and social status, which can be found from the sacrificial system in the Spring and Autumn Period, and one of the "Taigao" is the pig.

Unfortunately, the status of pigs did not last long, and from the Qin and Han dynasties, the status of pigs gradually declined. It also corresponds to the saying: scarce things are expensive.

After the number of pigs swelled sharply, but the status was not as good as day by day, coupled with the Qin and Han dynasties, the war was endless, the horses were more suitable for the needs of war, and the progress of cattle farming technology put cattle on the stage of history. Against the backdrop of horses and oxen, pigs are useless.

In the Han Dynasty, a pigsty was specially designed to be connected to the toilet, and then waste such as straw and chaff was thrown into the pigsty for the pigs to trample on, and the pig's excrement formed a high-quality fertilizer. Since then, dirty and smelly have become synonymous with pigs, but they don't know that this is all done by people, making their environment deteriorate and cramped.

What is even more tragic is that later the nomads came to dominate the Central Plains, followed by a great change in eating habits, mutton replaced pork, the last glimmer of hope of pigs was deprived by sheep, and the ancient people were even more unkind to see pigs. But this is all chosen by humans for pigs, and pigs do not have any choice.

Because pigs can't be cultivated like cattle, and it takes too much experience to raise pigs, pork is not so easy to preserve.

The ancients once ranked the six animals, and the pork chops were the last, because pigs are not used as a means of transportation like horses, like cattle that can plow land, unlike sheep that can produce wool, unlike chickens that can report and lay eggs, and unlike dogs who take care of their homes, so pigs that are lazy and lazy are not welcomed.

First of all, in ancient times, animals generally had a role, such as cattle could plough the land, horses could carry people, and pigs could only be used for meat, and ancient sacrificial purposes, so the status was very low.

Because the ancients liked fine grain, food like pigs was obviously not in their eyes, so the ancients would not be so unkind to see pigs.

In ancient eating habits, pork was not a tall meat for a long time, and was even called "cheap meat" by the scholars.

It's not that pigs do anything wrong, it's because pigs can't be used as laborers, and in ancient times, people valued labor very seriously.

Raising pigs will take a lot of energy, so as long as there are pigs in the family, they will be used by people to ** or take mortgages, and the technology of storing meat at that time is not particularly good.

Pigs are worth a lot of money. The pig's trotters have good wishes for good luck. The pig itself, which naturally has four trotters, becomes the embodiment of good luck.

I think that pigs are still more important in ancient times, and there is a symbol of wealth, and some nobles may think that pork is too ordinary to look at.

The ancient aristocracy pursued the dignity and refinement of the diet, and looked down on ordinary pork, calling pork "cheap meat", and this idea was transmitted from the nobles to the commoners, resulting in the ancients not waiting to see pigs.

Pigs were generally called "pigs" in ancient times.

Zuo Chuan Zhuang Gong Eight Years" said: "Qi Hou traveled in Gudi, chased fields in Beiqiu, and saw big pigs. (Vernacular text:.)

Qi Jinggong was playing in Gudi, and while hunting in the shell mound, he saw a big pig. Pig is also known as "犭屯 (tún)", also known as "dolphin" or "肫 (zhūn)". This refers to the piglet, also known as the pig solution.

In the ancient dialect, "彘" and "豨 (xī)" also refer to pigs.

Pigs are also known by many interesting nicknames, such as "black-faced lang" because of their black faces. Sun Yi of the Song Dynasty said in "Shi'er Edition": "The pig said that the long beak joined the army and Ugin. "Joining the army" is an official name in ancient times, and the pig is jokingly called because of its long beak.

The name "Ujin" began in the Tang Dynasty and was named after someone who raised pigs to get rich. There is also a name called "dregs of chaff", which is called because pigs feed on dregs.

Pigs were generally called "pigs" in ancient times.

Zuo Chuan Zhuang Gong Eight Years" said: "Qi Hou traveled in Gudi, chased fields in Beiqiu, and saw big pigs. (Vernacular text:.)

Qi Jinggong was playing in Gudi, and while hunting in the shell mound, he saw a big pig. Pig is also known as "犭屯 (tún)", also known as "dolphin" or "肫 (zhūn)". This refers to the piglet, also known as the pig solution.

In the ancient dialect, "彘" and "豨 (xī)" also refer to pigs.

Pigs are also known by many interesting nicknames, such as "black-faced lang" because of their black faces. Sun Yi of the Song Dynasty said in "Shi'er Edition": "The pig said that the long beak joined the army and Ugin. "Joining the army" is an official name in ancient times, and the pig is jokingly called because of its long beak.

The name "Ujin" began in the Tang Dynasty and was named after someone who raised pigs to get rich. There is also a name called "dregs of chaff", which is called because pigs feed on dregs.