What are the dog meat festivals?

The Dog Meat Festival is a "festival" for eating dog meat. Dog meat itself has edible and medicinal value. Autumn and winter come. In China, people eat warm and non-toxic dog meat in order to keep out the cold. On the 22nd day of the ninth lunar month, the Dog Meat Festival also arises at the historic moment. There are mainly Jinhua Hutou Dog Meat Festival and Yulin Litchi Dog Meat Festival. Let's take a look!

Jinhua Hutou Dog Meat Festival

September 22 of the lunar calendar is the time for the annual Hutou Dog Meat Festival in Qianxi Township, Wucheng District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province. in early September 2011, netizens condemned on the forum that "killing dogs on the street" on the day of the Dog Meat Festival would have a negative impact on city management. On September 21, the Qianxi Township Government in Wucheng District, under the pressure of public opinion, cancelled the "Jinhua Hutou Dog Meat Festival", which has a history of more than 600 years.

Yulin Litchi Dog Meat Festival

Yulin Litchi Dog Meat Festival is a folk festival formed spontaneously in Yulin City, Guangxi, China. It is a kind of folk custom to celebrate the Summer Solstice. Every year the Summer Solstice, generous and hospitable Yulin citizens prepare delicious food and wine on the same day, calling friends to get together to celebrate the Summer Solstice, because every year Yulin "Litchi Dog Meat Festival" slaughters a large number of dogs, has been condemned and opposed by many people from all walks of life such as animal protection across the country, and some netizens call it the "Yulin killing incident."

The Origin of Dog Meat Festival

Jinhua is a blessed place for Zhu Yuanzhang to prosper. It is said that Hu Dahai sent troops to attack the city of Wuzhou in the Ming Dynasty, but several nights of raids failed. After many explorations and reports, it was only known that there were many domestic dogs in the Qianxi area of Wucheng, where the battalion was stationed. Every time the army moved, the sound of dog barking had long been introduced into the ears of the defenders, making it extremely difficult to attack the city. "if you want to attack the city, you must first kill the dog." Hu Dahai used clever tricks, all the dogs were killed, and the city was broken in one fell swoop. The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang held a banquet in Qianxi to celebrate, and the smell of dog meat lasted for three days.

Another legend is that after Zhu Yuanzhang established his capital in Nanjing, the descendants of Chen Youren, who lived in seclusion in Qingtian, cursed Zhu Yuanzhang as a "Ming dog" and every household killed dogs to worship their ancestors. In order to avoid involvement, one of the descendants moved to Jinhua Hutou, known as West Chen and Dong Chen, built temples and Taoist temples, and held temple fairs to worship their ancestors on Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday.