Chapter Thirty-Eight: Animal Funeral
In the countryside of many places in ancient and modern times, cattle killing is the most alarming thing in the neighborhood, and even cattle killing is ranked after the red and white ceremonies, as the biggest "food" in the village, and it is called "animal funeral" by the fire workers of the Five Organs Temple. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The cook of the Five Organs Temple even once thought that there were two most cruel things in the world, one was to kill people, and the other was to kill cows.
According to Zhao Haipeng, this has something to do with a small story that circulates in the temple.
It is said that a long time ago, Pangu opened the world, after Nuwa created man, people had no dependence, and then established a home with the help of eleven kinds of creatures, and then Brahma had a lord, and the Jade Emperor called the emperor, so he decided to reward merit and deeds, so that people take eleven kinds of animals as the boundary of the annual ring, and always remember their merits.
To remember the merit, it has to be based on the size of the merit, so many creatures are gossiping and stating their merits in front of the Emperor of Heaven.
Seeing that all sentient beings were competing for merit, the Jade Emperor knew it in his own heart, and after he listened to the eleven kinds of animals, he finally spoke: "The merits of all living beings, I know them in my heart, and listen to me one by one." ”
Subsequently, the Jade Emperor first said to the pig: "You eat and sleep more, you have no merit, you should be the last." ”
The Jade Emperor pointed to the dog again and said: "You are loyal to the lord, but you can't keep your family, and you bite and bark a lot, and you should be the last of the row." ”
Subsequently, the Jade Emperor pointed to the chicken and said: "You peck the rice to eat the grain, and the eggs are laid regularly, but the tongue is called the end of the season." ”
Smiling, the Jade Emperor said to the monkey again: "You jump up and down, although you have no talent, you waste time, and you are more human, so you are talented." ”
After saying this, the Jade Emperor said to the sheep again: "If you come out of your hair and horns, you don't work and eat less, and you should be the seventh." ”
The Jade Emperor said to the horse again: "You eat more and work harder, the wind is like a macro, the meat is inedible, and the personality is explosive, it is difficult to tame for the less, and it should be a number." ”
Yubi, the Jade Emperor said to the snake again: "You love Qingmingyin, a good family, but in the field to catch insects and eliminate pests first, do not eat grains, do not complain, quite spiritual, should be ranked fifth." ”
After that, the Jade Emperor said to the dragon who was eager to try: "You travel in the clouds and rain, and you have merit in creating and moisturizing things, but you are moody, love food and worship, and respect the four heads." ”
Later, the Jade Emperor said to the rabbit: "You are pounding medicine for the Moon Palace, and you are going to the sky to count the points, knowing the autumn and knowing the report, teasing Chang'e, and the deep joy should be the third." ”
Bowing his head, the Jade Emperor said to the tiger: "You are the king of the world, domineering, driving away disasters and evil spirits, and ruling the rules of the world, but you kill more and do more evil, so you are the Asian champion!"
In the end, the Jade Emperor said to the cow: "Cow, more work and more work, should be the first." ”
The Jade Emperor's arrangement, all animals except the cow are not satisfied, and in everyone's eyes, the cow is an honest waste, no special ability, not to mention the dragon that can walk the clouds and rain, and the tiger who occupies the mountain as the king, is a little sheep, a little rabbit, and often steals the cow's herbfood.
No matter what it is, if it's too honest, it's bullied and looked down upon.
In this regard, the Jade Emperor smiled and said a word, which made everyone stunned.
He said, "If you are not convinced, then let me ask you, who has not lived by eating the rice and grain of cows and people? Even the snake that devours the rats has not grown up on the grain cultivated by the ox?"
This sentence really made all the animals speechless. Because even the dragon who traveled in the clouds and rain and the rabbit who pounded medicine in the Moon Palace all relied on eating the sacrifices pulled out by the cow to survive until now.
In this way, the cow, an honest creature, became the first of the eleven animals, and was named the first creature in the zodiac by the Jade Emperor.
But just when the gods sent the decree and the cow raised his mouth to hold the list, an accident suddenly happened, and this accident finally made the old cow second.
Because when the gods sent the list, it was not the cow that took over the baton, but the rat that stood on the head of the cow at some point!
The rat thief is a thief, and everyone hates it, so these canonizations have nothing to do with him, but the rats who don't know the height of the sky want to make trouble.
The mouse has no contribution to the world, but he is extremely intelligent, and his brain and courage are above those eleven animals, since he dares to steal the lamp oil of the Buddha, he naturally dares to rob the Jade Emperor's edict!
So, there was the next scene that shocked the Three Realms!
Ya took advantage of the cow's unpreparedness and stood on the cow's head early, because he knew that the cow was roughly wide and had no five fingers, so he could only take the list with his mouth, and when the time came, it would stand on the head of the cow, and it could reach the list earlier than the cow.
And the cow is honest, and the skin is thick, and it must not feel one, two, three.
So, in front of everyone's eyes, the mouse actually received the list of cattle and became the first in the zodiac!
At this time, everyone was very angry, and while complaining about the cow, they also asked the heavenly court to choose from the election, take back the emperor's list, and severely punish the rats who disturbed the situation.
But how good are the mice, people take the list and turn around and run, and never come out of the hole, except for looking for food at night, hiding all day long, for fear that the heavenly court will send troops, hang their own emperor list, and then punish a capital crime.
Because the stolen emperor can't get it back, the Jade Emperor is not good at making a new will, and Niu is honest and honest, and he also acquiesces in his second, it also thinks about the heavenly court, saying that the Jade Emperor is a golden mouth, if he comes again, it will lose the majesty of the heavenly court, they are courtiers, for the sake of the saint, only one is missing, he can bear it.
In this way, Niu swallowed his anger and became the second, but in the hearts of others, he will always be the first.
...... Maybe it's because of that story, so the Five Organs Temple generally believes that the cow has the greatest merit to people, the body is the most yin, and killing the cow is the most cruel thing in the world.
Cattle eat grass, plough the field, milk milk, a lifetime of efforts to grow grain, people and five animals harvest and take, and finally have to be knifed, it is too cruel, in addition to the age of no machinery, a good cow has been ten people, and the cow is the most psychic, don't look at it honestly, but the most benevolent and moral, before dying, still like a human tears......
Therefore, Zhao Haipeng said that the cooks in the Five Organs Temple rarely cook beef dishes, let alone kill cattle in person, especially the cooks of the Lu Cai Confucius Palace, but also adhering to the theory of Confucius Sage "Gentleman Far Cooking", rarely personally solve the cow, occasionally such as Ding Ding to solve the cow, but also for sacrifice, emergency use, after the end, but also to the cow to burn paper money to apologize.
Because of this kind of reason, the cow is considered to be the head of the livestock with the heaviest yin, and the "Tianling Gai" on the head of the cow that has been stood by the rat has become the yin of the yin because of the "poisonous plan" of the mouse.
"But unfortunately, the blood there is not easy to take. Zhao Haipeng shook his head and explained the reason.
It turned out that the Han farmers ate cattle and also knew that this place was yin and evil, so when killing cattle, they would recite the mantra of death, and first use a sledgehammer to crush the cattle's heavenly spirit bones, and then put the cow's blood clean to facilitate beef processing, while in the meat factory, the cattle were mostly killed by electric shock.
Even the heavenly spirit was smashed, naturally there was no heavenly spirit blood, and that kind of bull head did not have the function of conjuring spirits, it was useless to use it, the cow killed by the electric shock method was good, but the blood would coagulate quickly, and the heavenly spirit blood of the cow could not be used.
“...... Therefore, what I asked for was not the cattle killed by the Han people, but the cattle killed by the Mongolian-style cattle killing method. Zhao Haipeng said.
"That'...... What's the difference?" I don't understand.
Zhao Haipeng said: "There are two kinds of Mongolian cattle killing, one is called 'Tara Uhuer', and the other is called 'Thorn Wuhuer'. (To be continued.) )