西周猪尊断尾钩沉——家猪去势术超越1300年的实证

Research on Historical Values of Bronze Pig Statue During the Western Zhou Dynasty: Evidence of Domestic Pigs’ Emasculation Over 1300 Years

北赵村晋侯墓地113号墓出土的断尾青铜猪尊的历史价值没有得到充分发掘。猪尊短而上翘的残尾表明周代先民已经掌握仔猪断尾以防阉割感染的先进技术。这件猪尊的出土,为先秦文字学与后世文献中记载的家猪去势术提供了实物力证,让这项世界领先的家猪生产技术较《齐民要术》的文字记载提前了一千多年,这件青铜器艺术价值、文物价值与历史价值高度统一。

The historical value of the broken-tailed bronze pig statue unearthed from Tomb 113 of Jinhou tomb in Beizhao village has not been fully explored. The short and upturned stump of the piglets indicates that the ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty mastered the advanced technology of cutting off piglets’ tails to prevent the castration infection. The unearthed pig statue provides physical evidence for the domestic pig emasculation in pre-Qin philology and later literature, making this world-leading domestic pig production technology more than one thousand years earlier than the written record in Qi Min Yao Shu. The artistic, cultural and historical values of this bronze ware are highly unified.