The embarrassing moment of returning home Time back to the 80s, after the fifteenth day of the lunar month, people in the countryside began to buy New Year's goods. At this time, the family with fat pigs in the family opened the surname Zhang Luo to kill pigs and sell meat.
There are people in the village who can kill pigs, and it costs a few dollars to kill a pig's mouth. During the Chinese New Year, people who want to kill pigs will find a pig killer and ask him to kill pigs and sell meat.
The preparatory work before killing the pig is to boil two large pots of boiling water at a distance from the place where the pig is killed, and prepare for hair removal and plucking. In winter, when it is cold, the kettle should be boiled to ensure that the water is boiling, so it is constantly burned with firewood.
The killing of the pig began, and several young and strong young men pulled the fat pig to the board, hooked the pig's chin with a hook, pressed the pig down, and lifted it onto the board, one person continued to drag the iron hook, and the other people held the pig to the death, not letting it move. The pig was hooked in the jaw, and it screamed and hissed in pain.
The master first used the middle finger and index finger of his left hand to find the position of the knife at the pig's neck, and then held the knife with his right hand and stabbed the pig's neck.
The sound of the pigs crowed far away, and many people rushed to gather around a garden circle, both adults and children. In the 80s, there was no bustle in the countryside, and pig killing happened to be a popular entertainment program.
The pig-killing knife stabbed the pig from the neck to the pig's heart, and the knife turned around again, and it was said that the heart would be pierced so that the pig could die and all the blood could flow out.
The knife was stabbed into the pig's neck and pulled out, and the bright red pig's blood gushed out and flowed into a basin on the ground where the salt was placed, and the master stirred it in a circle with a wooden stick to let the salt dissolve into the pig's blood.
The pig's blood dried up, the pig died, several people carried the pig into the pot of boiling water, poured boiling water on the pig with a scoop, and then used a special shovel stone to shovel the pig's body, and the pig's hair fell off.
Pig killing and hair removal is generally done by the pig killer master and his apprentice, and the person who helps to kill the pig does not use a shovel stone to remove the hair.
After plucking, the pig killer hangs the pig's hind legs, the pig's head is down, and a bamboo tube is stuffed into the pig's front feet, and then he puffs up his cheeks and begins to "blow". The pig killer "blows" to have lung exhalation, and ordinary people really can't do it.
After blowing, the pig was blown in the middle of winter, and now, the pig killing master began to use a fine blade knife to scrape all the pig hair that has not been shaved clean. After shaving, the white pigs are hung on the shelf, which is particularly dazzling and beautiful.
The pig hair was shaved clean, and the pig killer took a machete to cut down on the middle of the pig's hind legs, and after a few "clicks, clicks", the pig was divided into left and right halves, and the internal organs of the feet fell out.
After tidying up the pig's internal organs, at this time I took the pig's urine and blew it, tied it with a rope, and handed it to the owner's children who had been waiting for a long time. In the 80s, there were no toys for children, and pig urine was a rare toy, which could be used as a basketball or a football kick, and it was very strong.
Cut off the pig's head and hand it to the master's house, and then clean up the pork, then there are onlookers to buy meat, you five catties, I ten catties, he fifteen catties, and more than half of it will be sold in a while. The rest of the pork was pulled by carts and sold in the village.
The pork was sold out, and the owner ended up with a pot of pig's blood and a pig's head. The pig's blood is steamed and eaten, the pig's head is cooked, and the slices are torn to make "frozen" meat to eat.
The winter in the north is cold, and children like to play outdoors, and the two little faces are frozen red, like two red apples. Some people say that smearing a child's face with freshly killed pig blood can prevent frostbite, so some children use pig blood to wipe their faces.
Some people say that pig blood wiping the face and anti-frostbite is a home remedy, no one knows whether it works or not, some children will wipe pig blood with their hands, and some children will not, mainly because parents take the idea.
This is the scene of killing pigs in the countryside years ago, and it should be gone now. Nowadays, rural pigs must go to designated slaughterhouses, and they can only be slaughtered after being approved by epidemic prevention stations.