That year and that month can have a whole pig on the New Year's Eve to eat the farm must be a hard-working family, such a hard-working family must be a hard-working housewife, the hard-working housewife at least 365 days to a happy little piglets fed into the fat grunt New Year's Eve pig.
You see that used to hit the hog grass "satchel", due to overuse and strain, "satchel system" replaced by cowhide strips or by her shoulder broken; you see her left thumb and forefinger, the old and new scars and scars, it was chopped hog grass knife; you see that the hog grass knife; you see that the hog grass, the old and the new scars, it is chopped. You see the big pot on the pig stove, every day to steam a big pot of pig food. This cauldron of pig food, so that careful people will know the year's success of the rich and poor - if the grass mixed with grain particles of "pig churning" more, it is a good year, on the contrary, this year's crops will be in arrears; you look at the handle was held to the shiny smooth wood grain appearing pig food barrel, you Then you can recall the classic figure fixed on the edge of the years - she picks up the bucket with her left hand, tilts her body to the right, holds the long-handled iron spoon in her right hand and raises it to the sky, rests on one shoulder, and then switches to picking up the bucket with her right hand, tilts her body to the left, and holds the iron spoon in her left hand, pointing it high to the sky. A cry of "Pig-Lo-Lo!" How like a melodious mountain song, waking the fat pig from dreamland. Her robust "body dance steps" exceeded some of the signature movements of today's "Big Mothers" square dance - if it were a male voice calling, the pig grunted at most, not bothering to look at this kind of The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do it.
In that year and month, the slaughter of New Year's pigs is one of the solemn ceremonies held at the end of the year in the farming family, held this ceremony has a lot of calculations, have to look at a good day - "Xiao pig does not kill pigs, Xiao dragon does not kill the pig," the day of the killing of the pig, but also to avoid the family phases, the killing of the pig, the pig is a good day. Family members of the genus, kill the pig this day of the genus is certainly one of the twelve Chinese zodiac, if the twelve animals (in addition to the above taboos) is smaller than the pig, but also do not kill the pig, so the day to kill the pig is really not good choice!
This good day finally came, this ceremony began to be held, the protagonist of this ceremony temporarily gave way to the "pig killer", the "pig killer" should really be called "butcher", so I have not given me a good impression!
Later, I read the Book of Songs, which says, "If you don't harvest, why don't you harvest 300 marketplaces? The first time I read the poem, I thought that it was used to criticize the butcher's wife. Think this is used to question the butchers . Later, I saw the behavior and speech of "Hu Butcher" in "Fan Jin Zhongjiu", and I was even more disgusted. But this is an indispensable profession, they also have to abide by professional ethics, but also to follow the professional rules and "unspoken rules".
"Pig killer" with "pig listening to the staff" prying the oil flower of the bamboo basket containing the butcher knife came in a hurry!
"Pig listening staff" is from the pig's ear to enter, through the pig limbs with the air way, steel polished, five feet long, the front end is a smooth spherical turn back, the back end is bent into a small ring to facilitate the hand grip. Fat pig "against the knife" after the break, immediately have to open a small hole in the tip of the pig's ear, and then the "pig listening to the staff" from this small hole inserted, respectively, through the limbs. Next is the lung capacity of the young man with the mouth in turn towards the small holes in the blowing, blowing the young man neck red neck thick, blowing the case of the pig on all four feet to the sky. At this point, the pig killer to take an earplug to seal the small hole - the countryside circulated a joke: "ears to listen to the staff!" The ridicule is not paying attention to listen to the absent-minded people.
The pig killer came and asked the housewife slowly and methodically, "Is the water ready?" This pot of boiling water is scalding pigs with boiling water needs to be blended with the right amount of cold water before scalding, the jargon is called "to soup", "to soup" is a pig killer's home masterpiece, to soup is good or bad related to whether or not to take off all the hair of the pig, despite the "Dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water", but if you use boiling water to scald, the pig hair is easy to get rid of, but the pig will have no skin, pork block will not have half a look, the reputation of the pig slayer will also be affected. So it's not surprising that the "pig killer with a disciple - stay a water (stay a hand)".
Pig killer skillful, less than half an hour, a whole pig not only was dissected in pieces, but also according to the pig body parts, good and bad, expensive and cheap, divided into categories weighing catty on the two under the knife to take the meat, such as the "pig butt" two, "pig collar" a pair of, "Pig fat hooves" two, "hind leg heart" two pieces. Of course, a pair of "pig's butt" is the essence of pork, one to eat, one "gift"; two "pig's fat hooves" is a pregnant woman's breast milk of the best, reserved for the sympathy of the mother of the birth of a new life; Two pieces of "hind leg heart" is the raw material for making "Dongpo Pork", can not be marinated, air-dried and home-brewed "yellow wine wine juice" together with the slow stewing, meat cooked, add ginger and brown sugar to get rid of the coldness of pork, in order to regulate The meat is cooked, add ginger and brown sugar to get rid of the coldness of pork, to adjust the color and flavor of "Dongpo Pork".
Pig killers generally do not eat the host family's meals, after the work belongs to their own work, they have to go to catch the next family. The master hurriedly fished out a pile of half-cooked pork from the pot, with a chopstick stabbed to the pig killer, pig killer on the road while walking and gnawing, fat and greasy mouth straight from the corner of the oil, so there is a hysterical "pig killer's mouth - greasy mouth", used to mock those who pull the white The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots.
Send away the pig killer, the protagonist of the ceremony back to the housewife. At this time, invited to "drink pig's blood soup" people, passing by the master "hanging mouth" people, pretending to pass by the "dine" people one after another, the annual festival of the most affordable content! The most affordable part of the annual event, the "Mopan Club", officially begins. The housewife becomes the chef, a firewood in front of the stove, a kitchen knife behind the stove, stove frying, cooking, steaming, boiling and other eighteen martial arts, all the tricks of the trade - bowl after bowl of farm dishes transported to the annual feast "Mopan will" table. The men can't be idle either, burning the wood fire in the fireplace, boiling the turnip-head meat in the hanging pot, simmering the sweet straw wine in the clay pot, spreading the wine goblets and chopsticks on the big table or door, and then carrying the "tray" between the kitchen and the banquet table, shouting the "tray! No.": oil to Luo --
It is said that the guest away from the master, but at this time the master sent away after the guests of the wine and rice, the housewife inside the difficult to rest - a not big New Year's Eve pig one-third of them to the Husband worthy of a large number of men, put down a "go, let's hurry to the next 'grill seat' to go!"