KILLING A PIG pt 1
January 14, 2010
Here are pictures from our family New Years celebration in DaPan, a little village in the mountains of ZheJiang, where we killed a pig, sacrificed it to Buddha, then ate it. Usually, this sort of thing would happen during Chinese New Years, but since I’m usually at school during that time, grandma decided to do it during the solar calendar new year. Animal lovers might want to stop reading/navigate away from this page.
The pig. My grandmother raises one every year, keeping it in a little pen next to her house and feeding it leftover human-food scraps + other corn stuff
The dead pig. Pig killing master (man on left) stuck a knife in her throat and let it drain into a bowl.
the bowl of pig blood
- my grandma also purchased a goat that day, so that there would be a goat and pig by the end of the day
- The pig was placed into a tub of hot water and twirled around for a good ten minutes at least, to scald off all the hair
more de-hairing
time to de-gut
mmmm intestines
and then there was a pig
the lungs/heart hanging in the bathroom
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