"Touching" meat on Tet holiday in the village
(Baonghean.vn) - These days, all over the villages of Nghe An, people are bustling with pork slaughtering to celebrate Tet. This is also a way for many families to have clean, safe food.
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| From around the 27th of Tet onwards, all the villages are bustling with talk of Tet meat, from one end of the village to the other you can see pork being butchered, and in many places even buffalo and cows being butchered. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Pigs for slaughter during Tet are often not as “smooth-skinned and hairy” as other pigs, because they are fed with vegetables and normal bran, with little or no “stork bran” and other compounds. Fastidious families also raise pigs from a young age until they are slaughtered. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Before Tet, everyone discussed choosing a day to slaughter the pig, assigning people to bleed it, and others to divide the meat... Since they were all "country folk" and not as experienced as the butchers, butchering a pig was quite difficult. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Mr. Nguyen Trong Tien in Hamlet 2, Thanh Luong Commune (Thanh Chuong) said: This Tet, his family and neighbors caught a pig weighing more than 70kg, which had been raised at home for nearly 10 months. Every year, his family catches meat like this. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| On Tet meat day, women who are used to planting and harvesting all year round also become reluctant "meat farmers". Photo: Huy Thu |
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Mr. Tran Minh Lai (57 years old) in Dong Tam hamlet, Nghia Lien commune (Nghia Dan) just organized a Tet meat sale at home and shared: "Compared to the market, the meat will be tastier, cleaner and cheaper, and it's also more fun. This is also an opportunity for brothers and friends in and outside the hamlet to meet, slaughter pigs, eat and drink, and have fun before spring comes." Photo: Huy Thu |
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| In the countryside, eating pork on Tet holiday is not only the expectation of pig farmers but also the excitement of children. Photo: Huy Thu |
