But this legend can be traced back. The three evils pointed out in Shangqing Lingbao Dafa are goose, dog and snakehead. I hate geese for the sky, dogs for the ground and snakeheads for the water. "Sun Zhenren's Health Song" said: "Goose has order, dog has righteousness, and herring knows the northern ceremony. People are rude and righteous, and the god of heaven and earth is not happy. " So Taoism formed the tradition of "three evils". "Three dislikes" refer to geese, dogs and carp mentioned by Sun Simiao in real life, and there is another saying in the records that water hates turtles.
Four don't eat: geese, dogs and mullet all appear, and there are many turtles that Taoist priests are afraid to eat.
In Sun Simiao's "A Prescription for Urgent Need of a Daughter", it is said that a dog's penis tastes sour and flat, but it is nontoxic. In the main injury, the husband is impotent. Strengthening the brain, controlling wind arthralgia in the head, lower sores, polyps in sores, sour and bacon, non-toxic, suitable for the kidney, calming the five internal organs, and nourishing injuries. A dead dog has no tongue, and eating it will harm people. Dogs are crazy in spring. If their noses are red and dry, they want to be crazy. It doesn't eat meat.
Not only did he elaborate on the benefits of eating dog meat, but he also pointed out that dogs are mad dogs and can't eat them.
It also taught others how to eat beef healthily. "Black cattle are the first to die in the north, and eating their meat harms people. All Niu Yi fever dies and you can never eat it. They ate carbuncle. Cattle with nailed hooves eat the tendons in their hooves, which makes people stab. "
Also praised the cow's "meat: sweet, flat, non-toxic, quenching thirst, stopping saliva, calming the middle, benefiting qi and tonifying the spleen and stomach."
Also talk about goose fat "sweet, flat and non-toxic." The main wind is twin, and the qi and blood are useless. Meat: sweet, flat and non-toxic. Long-term service of long hair, sideburns, beards and eyebrows, benefiting qi without hunger, is light and resistant to summer heat. "
As a Taoist, Sun Simiao talked about dog meat and goose meat that he suggested not to eat in his works. He also said it was good to eat this, and then he said the benefits of eating beef.
Because we Taoists don't eat beef, or Sun Simiao's "three dislikes", we don't think this meat-eating man eats badly, but we think we should have these moral qualities, so we don't eat it, because the so-called "fellow travelers love each other".
Of course, there are ancient social reasons for not eating beef. Cattle is an important means of production.
However, Sun Simiao himself, as a doctor, has the responsibility to tell the public that these meat eaters are harmless and beneficial, but it is best not to eat meat in special circumstances such as death. As a great philosopher and writer, Zhuangzi talked about eating beef, not to mention killing cattle. Taoism won't feel wrong.
What's more, when Zhuangzi was here, Taoism did not form a cult and there was no unified discipline. There are many contents of self-cultivation in Zhuangzi, which are inherited by Taoism.
However, Taoist priests will not tamper with Zhuangzi and change killing cattle to killing pigs and chickens, and Zhuangzi's writing about killing cattle will not affect his position in Taoist minds.
This is Taoism! We don't eat beef because we think it is reasonable, and ancient cattle are important means of production, so we have this taboo in order not to destroy production. But we don't force others to obey our own preferences, and we don't think others are bad people who kill cows and eat meat. Even for the benefit of the public, Taoist doctors will objectively tell everyone that beef and other meats that Taoism does not eat are good.
It is different from some vegetarians who advocate eating meat and getting sick, and it is also different from extreme animal protectionists. They demonize meat and make them not eat meat. As a Taoist, I don't deceive myself. Beef is good, but I don't eat it.