Cao Huilin: Mr. Ma, let me ask you a question, the Hui people don't eat pork, the Manchus don't eat dog meat, the Zhuang people don't eat frog meat, and the Han people don't eat what kind of meat?
Ma Shilong: Han people don't eat beef.
Cao Huilin: I haven't heard of it. Nowadays, which Han people don't eat beef, unless he is a heavenly ring, eating meat is disgusting.
Ma Shilong: Historically, Han people did not eat beef. It's not that they don't want to eat it, but it's illegal to slaughter cattle privately and eat beef from unknown sources. Cattle are the production tools used to plough the land, and there are laws in all dynasties, and those who slaughter cattle privately violate the law and have the crime of killing their heads.
This event continued from ancient times to the seventies and eighties of the last century, and I still remember it clearly. More than 40 years ago, when I was a child, there were no private cattle breeders, and the cattle were raised collectively by the production team, used to pull carts, plow the land and do farm work. But the production team only has the right to use, not the right to slaughter. Most ordinary people have never eaten beef, and neither do I, and I don't know what beef tastes like.
Cao Huilin: So, cattle have a life limit, sick, old, can't work, what should I do?
Ma Shilong: If this happens, the production team needs to write out an application for slaughter, go to the brigade headquarters to seal it, and then hand it over to the commune veterinary station for filing. After the veterinarian diagnoses the situation as true, a certificate can be issued to kill it, and then the knife can be used.
The cartoon "Cooking Wine on Heroes", published in "Zhengzhou Evening News", written by Ma Shilong.
Actually, it's easier said than done. After the application was handed in, it may have been a long wait before two veterinarians went to the cowshed of the production team to inspect the cattle to check whether the cattle were really sick or too old to work. If it is really sick, the veterinarian will prescribe the medicine** and charge it. Then the drug, then the charge. If it is indeed an old cow that cannot work, the veterinarian still prescribes medicine for the sake of economic interests**, deliberately makes it difficult, and keeps it until it dies of old age. If you want to kill the cow before it dies of old age, it is very difficult, you must give the veterinarian the meaning, and only when the meaning arrives at home, he will give you a certificate that you can kill.
Cao Huilin: Oh, it's so complicated.
The cartoon "For the Official, Create a "Blessing" Party", by Ma Shilong.
Ma Shilong: Since ancient times, street markets, hotels, and those who do not sell beef, if they are found, there will be an official investigation until the case is solved.
Cao Huilin: Just like the current public security bureau solves a murder case?
Ma Shilong: Right. Therefore, in the TV series "Water Margin", the heroes of Liangshan went to the tavern to ask the shopkeeper for three catties of beef, scalded the pot of old wine, and ate and drank. This is pure nonsense, falsification of history, and international jokes. If this is the case, the shopkeeper would have been arrested and beheaded by the government a long time ago, how can there be a story of drunken beating the door god, and three bowls are not enough! It's these bad dramas full of loopholes, and people are still drunk and fascinated by watching them, and it's sad and lamentable!
Cao Huilin: How good it is now! No matter who wants to eat cooked beef, go to the market to buy a large piece, take home and cut a **, add garlic juice, green onions, ginger salt and various condiments, pour a cup of old white dry after mixing, pour yourself a drink, eat and drink beautifully, how happy!
July 31, 2023.
About the Author
Ma Shilong, a powerful contemporary Chinese comic artist, the first person in Nanyang comics, and a Chinese painter, also writes essays, biographies, and reviews. In 1989, he began to publish comics, ** for more than 30 years, has been in "Comics Monthly", "Chinese Comics", "Art Daguan", "Chinese Women", "Liaoning Youth", "Essay Monthly", "Selected Essays", "Yuanyuan Comics" and other authoritative magazines, "People**", "Guangming**", "China Youth Daily", "Satire and Humor", "China Calligraphy and Painting Newspaper", "Humor and Jokes", "Rule of Law**", "Workers**", "Farmers**", "Yangcheng Evening News", "Marriage and Childbirth Cartoon News", "China Lawyer Daily", "Health News", "Comic World", " Authoritative newspapers and periodicals such as "Ancient and Modern Stories", "Miscellaneous Newspaper", "New Evening News", "New *** Elderly**", a total of more than 1,000 works have been published in hundreds of mainstream newspapers and magazines at the provincial and municipal levels across the country, and some works have been published in foreign countries. He has won more than 50 awards such as gold and silver awards. For more works, please search: "Nanyang Painter Ma Shilong", "Ma Shilong Comics", "Ma Shilong Cartoonists", "Henan Ma Shilong", "Ma Shilong Chinese Painting" and other keywords. Subscribe and follow this account to watch past articles. Thanks for liking, sharing, favorites, and comments.
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Cao Huilin, a native of Nanzhao, Henan, born in the 70s. Editor-in-chief of the online journal "People's Cultural Perspective". It integrates writing, photography, recording, dubbing and broadcasting, editing and publishing. For more works, please click on the top and bottom of the page".Cao Huilin** Collection (partial).Or search for keywords "Cao Huilin", "Cao Hui Lin Nanzhao", "Cao Hui Lin Nanyang" and so on.