In ancient times, it was superstitious to say why not to kill cattle

First, because cattle in ancient times were used as an important tool for people's production and labor, killing cattle is tantamount to destroying important production tools, so this is not allowed

Second, from the perspective of personal feelings, a cow in its prime, hard work for people, for the people, relying on its hard work to help people, itself has made a great contribution to people, and when it is old and can no longer work, and then kill it to eat This is not equivalent to ingratitude, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, it does not make sense in the sense of reason, so from this point of view, it cannot be killed

If you really deviate from these two points and have to kill this cow, it is said that this cow will die without turning a blind eye Because there is no distinction between humans and animals in the underworld, all sentient beings are ghosts in the underworld, so even if the cow dies, it is the same as a human, if it dies, it is possible to turn into a terrible ghost and come back to seek revenge from the person who killed it

In ancient China, wanton killing cattle was a felony, and no one wanted to eat beef unless the cow died by itself and was approved by the superiors.

Why did cattle have a high status in ancient China and why they could not be killed indiscriminately? To answer this question, we need to look at what kind of society ancient China was from a macro perspective.

As we all know, in ancient times, China was a small-scale peasant economy.

for the dominant agrarian civilization.

Society, based on the production mode of male ploughing and female weaving.

Therefore, in the case of farming, the use of cattle is undoubtedly the primary labor security for people when they are engaged in agricultural planting, and if cattle are killed wantonly, then the labor force of farmers will be endangered.

It may be that after the lack of labor in the cultivated land of the peasants, the crop yield in the cultivated land will decline in the coming year, and the decline in output will lead to the endangerment of the peasants' food security, and once the peasants are not satisfied, there will be local peasant uprisings, which will affect the rule of the ruling class, which will lead to the separation between the local and the local, which is not only not conducive to the control of the locality, but also greatly affects the stability of the regime.

Therefore, the influence behind such a small cow can be described as far-reaching, in my country's four famous novels "Water Margin".

There was such a picture, the "extremely vicious" Liangshan hero.

Such an appearance also shows the great contradiction between the local and ** at that time, and also reflects a kind of contempt for the imperial court. For private suicide cattle eating cattle in China during the Qin and Han dynasties.

There are clear provisions in the law: stealing cattle, killing cattle, and beheading cattle slaughterers, during the Song Dynasty, committing suicide to cattle was sentenced to one and a half years for stealing cattle, and 1,000 miles were distributed. Such a punishment can be described as very large.

The ox was a symbol of labor and production tools in ancient China, therefore, the importance of the ox for the agricultural civilization of ancient China.

It is self-evident that those who kill cattle and eat beef are undoubtedly challenging the highest authority of the imperial court.

Because cattle are one of the important means of production and are mainly used for farming, they cannot be killed at will.

Because the status of cattle was relatively high at that time, people generally did not easily hurt cattle, and it was illegal to kill cattle, and they felt that such behavior was particularly cruel.

This is because agriculture was very important in ancient times, and cattle became a very important tool for cultivating land, so they could not be killed casually, and the status of cattle was very high.

Because cattle are a tool used by people to cultivate the land, cattle were scarce in ancient times, so it would be illegal to kill cattle.

First, because cattle in ancient times were used as an important tool for people's production and labor, killing cattle is tantamount to destroying important production tools, so this is not allowed

Second, from the perspective of personal feelings, a cow in its prime, hard work for people, for the people, relying on its hard work to help people, itself has made a great contribution to people, and when it is old and can no longer work, and then kill it to eat This is not equivalent to ingratitude, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, it does not make sense in the sense of reason, so from this point of view, it cannot be killed

If you really deviate from these two points and have to kill this cow, it is said that this cow will die without turning a blind eye Because there is no distinction between humans and animals in the underworld, all sentient beings are ghosts in the underworld, so even if the cow dies, it is the same as a human, if it dies, it is possible to turn into a terrible ghost and come back to seek revenge from the person who killed it