Thread by @Rjrasva

Manchu larper (Li Shuo is most likely a peasant from Shandong whose ancestors migrated to Manchuria in late 19th cent) & "Aryan" larper both bringing hilarity. Schopenhauer on situation of animals in his day in Europe
& until early 20th cent Chinese had

a strong taboo against beef (including male buffaloes), especially in southern China. To quote Mao on this

This is because oxen helped the Chinese peasant plough & came to be seen as family. The 2 groups most strongly associated with beef in 19th cent Qing books.google.com/books?id=RW4YD…

were Mohammedans & Westerners

u will still find remnants of this taboo in Taiwan, old Chinese songs against beef eating. Late Joseon Korean intellectuals argued for a ban on beef in Korea citing Qing laws as a model on both ethical & agricultural grounds

This comes from late Qing stelae of 1877 found in Yunnan:

Discussing the protection of farm cattle based on the "Stele Record of the Eternal Ban on Slaughtering Cows"
2022-10-16

sohu.com/a/593159687_12…

Tasan is probably the most well known late Joseon Korean intellectual, note the sentence:

'Is it right to eat both the grain produced by the strength of oxen and the meat of the oxen themselves?' How true this is!

The divine bovine
Mar 17, 2021


On the remnants of this taboo in Taiwantaipeitimes.com/News/feat/arch…

& attached is one of the many critiques of Christianity offered in late Ming & early Qing

Many among the Chinese Muslims-the Hui-made a living from the bovine slaughter which caused tensions and even conflicts throughout China... The beef-eating habits of Westerners, notably in Shanghai, caused outrage among Chinese observers books.google.com/books?id=XWPHA…

The oldest and most influential among these is a long ballad, entitled "The Bovine Crying for Justice" (Niu siu yuan), in which a slaughtered buffalo recalls his life of toil and curses the farmer who sold him to the butcher