In people's mind, the pig is perhaps the most honest of livestock, it does not like dogs, elf, understand the mind of the master, follow the master, before and after the best of please capabilities.And the pig long with a round, fat dun, simple and honest, eat sleep, hungry eat, be honest.Pig of lazy in the animal is notoriously, pigs are the fastest of all the animals are long one, less important reason is that activity.In addition to eating in the process of exercise, pig rarely do plenty of exercise, more don't have to worry about tired.Dirty pig also is well known, although it's not hygiene with the objective reasons, almost all but it is a lifetime in a column to eat, live, pull, and covered in sticky excrement, the excrement gives a person the feeling of nausea.Because due to some of these characteristics of pigs, it tends to become stupid, lazy, greedy, ugly.Used in the cultural life of human beings, with profound negative.

Pigs and contempt.Famous movie screenwriter xia yan all wrote in the report "bonded laborer" literature, the foreman is a bonded laborer to call all "pigs" 2 words, showing them as a bonded laborer for personal insult and discrimination.Qing Ming, a large number of Chinese are sold to foreign labor, the overseas Chinese workers are referred to as the "pigs".Shipped abroad, jing is slavery, and for mining jobs, life has no hope of returning.

So, pig whether all for BianYi cultural symbolic meanings, can only be a laughingstock of human weakness?Of course, the answer is no.Pigs are used in derogatory sense, is completely out of it is an observation on its surface.Dirty said pigs, for example, is it avoid hot main reason, according to expert research, in the following 48 degrees, pigs in circles generally your own place, but once the temperature rises to 48 degrees Celsius above, they will act recklessly to all in their own circles.As a result, the higher the temperature, the more they will become dirty.So we should realize that the idea of that kind of thought that pigs are dirty animals, is mainly refers to its appearance, and the nature of the pig is not really dirty.Modern famous anthropologist Fraser to recognize: "like all the so-called dirty animals, pigs was originally as a divine beast."The claim is reasonable.

In ancient times, does not contain any of the cultural meanings of pig derogatory sense, on the contrary, the pig is brave size.Not only the meaning of "home" is a pig inside the house, even the social activities at that time, are also associated with pig thing as the center, such as "what" oracle as their hands long-handled nets to catch the pig or the shape of a wild boar.And the quality of people, also in pig thing for coordinates to uniform, such as "dare" word, have a hand to catch a pig as a brave, so can't catch the pig for cowardice.Pigs are so docile honesty, that's because long-term by humans domesticated, isolation and lost its nature, with nature and wild boar is cruel and good at fight, then based on this characteristic, the pig will contain the meaning of "courage".

Said to the pig's brave we first to see a real modern anecdotes: a day in the autumn of 1984, herb gathering of heilongjiang farmer head back to the sun on the big crate sing-an herbalism.All of a sudden, a soya bean big drops of water fall on the back of the head, some blood drops.Old head looked up a look, and see a hungry very dry the east-northern tiger, was crouching in a large rock, off the saliva to him!The old headThe tiger"Shout" 1, came head-on, old head fierce a dodge.The tiger was from his head and found a metre away have a head of fat boar, bent over the plane tree roots there.The wild boar in the sudden rush to santana is not weakness, so bad to ruthlessly stare at each other on both sides.Such confrontation about two to three minutes, the tiger jumped suddenly, and to the wild boar, they would go, the administering, fight for about 15 rounds, the tiger makes a trick, bite into a wild boar.A wild boar was loud howl of pain.Suddenly rust-worn gears flaking roll in the woods, crow, dozens of wild boar growled a, the side and hard fighting.The tiger alone and struggling to fight.Blink of an eye roars pig hind, dou get dark in the woods.A few hours later, the tiger was bleeding profusely, force exerting its difficult, alas.The surviving wild boar is only slowly, angrily to evacuate the scene.Contaminated sand in the woods, a dozen wild boar with a tiger fell to the ground, two head was dying of a wild boar still twitching!Old head hiding in a tree, watched the breathtaking pig tiger fight all along.

Wild boars are so brave, so this term is commonly used in Japan as a "pig" the name of the people, the Japanese have to baby named "pig", is not good to feed, came from a common base name, but appreciate the pig's valiant, have the spirit of advance, never retreat.Europeans have similar understanding.They think the wild boar although there is no Angle, but it is the most fierce animals in animals.Its fangs sharp and strong, can easily hurt the enemy;It often on the trunk rubbing shoulders under threat, make it a strong shield armour.So many European arms with pigs for design, said fierce yong and enemy.Such as badges of the English king Charles iii is two pigs vault shield, Scotland and cover the duke's badge, pig like in the design above, shows the dignity of the pig.

As a pig, it is so simple and honest honest, for yourself, never go against anyone, and bring people to economic prosperity, people become farmers "cornucopia";Its whole body every organ, from beginning to end, are all people can eat the food.So in Chinese culture, the pig and many moral and symbolic of the other.

Is since the tang dynasty, the position and the jinshi, if they are in the middle of the people in the next President of the group, will please use "Zhu Shu coordinal calligrapher, both title Yu Yan tower with a red pencil.Because of the "pig" and "zhu" unisonant, "shoe" and "problem" sound harmonic, so pigs became young students chances mascot.Whenever someone take exams, and relatives and friends are gifts to braise in soy sauce pig's knuckles, I wish this place "his brush title".Later, this habit gradually expand, people give each other a ham, when New Year for ham is with pig's feet braised together.Folk thought "pig arch" auspicious, pig has become a messenger sent blessing, so have a proverb says: "the pig is home treasure, golden dung is the field."(Chinese zodiac /shengxiao/)

To sum up, in our life, pigs on the one hand, represents the stupid, lazy, greedy, lewd, dirty, but on the other hand and symbol of the brave, honest, loyal, careful, honest, width.Naturalist hessan said: "the pig is not like horses, cattle, sheep, cower obedience;Less impetuous, xiangshan sheep daring not afraid, not like goose hostile, not condescending like cats;Don't go like a dog."