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Among all livestock for meat, pigs, being omnivorous animals, are the easiest to raise. Not being foragers of grass, they do not impede agricultural development; and also unlike cattle or horses, they are not used as means for plowing or warfare. Consequently, for more than two thousand years, pigs have been the most important meat livestock in China. The buying and selling of pork has never ceased from the past to the present.

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Butcher shop sign

Butcher shop sign

Butcher shops often used actual goods as signs; in other words, in front of the shop were a row of iron pegs on which hang a few pieces of fat or lean pork. However, since these goods signs rotted...
LuZhishen beats Zheng Tu

LuZhishen beats Zheng Tu

This picture is an illustration from The Book of Heroes, published during the reign of Chongzhen (1628-1644) in the Ming Dynasty. It portrays how the gallant and forthright Lu Zhishen beat the...

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