Live Pig Chopped in Half in Controversial Vietnamese Festival

Nem Thuong during the Doan Thuong festival, where one controversial ceremony involves a bloody splitting of a live pig.

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From Tiexue:

Live pig chopped in half in Vietnam, bloody scene condemned

January 28th, Nem Thuong village in Vietnam’s Bac Ninh province, local villagers held a ceremony on this 6th day of the lunar new year, to commemorate 13th century anti-imperial general Doan Thuong. Doan Thuong is also regarded as the village’s guardian deity.

The Doan Thuong festival in Nem Thuong village of Vietnam, where a controversial ceremony involves the chopping of a live pig in half.

Every year on the 6th day of the first month of the lunar year, thousands of the village’s residents will hold a ceremony/festival.

The Doan Thuong festival in Nem Thuong village of Vietnam, where a controversial ceremony involves the chopping of a live pig in half.

One of the controversial ceremonial activities is the splitting of a live pig. Because the scene is extremely bloody, it has been denounced by many, and even the local government has called for an end to this ceremony.

The live pig to be chopped in half during the Doan Thuong festival in Nem Thuong village of Vietnam.

The live pig to be chopped in half during the Doan Thuong festival in Nem Thuong village of Vietnam.

A live pig is chopped in half during a Doan Thuong festival ceremony in Nem Thuong village of Bac Ninh province of Vietnam.

Vietnamese villagers of Nem Thuong village in Vietnam spread the blood of a live pig that was cut in half during the Doan Thuong festival onto their banknotes believing it will bring them good luck.

From Tiexue:

小鸡撞地球:

The level of a nation’s civilization can be judged by how it treats its animals.

拔都1119:

Makes sense, like how Canada slaughters baby seals, little Japan slaughters dolphins and whales, these countries are indeed barbaric and uncivilized.

snowydingxi:

Seems like the more developed a country is, the more benevolent it is towards animals. When I was small, I didn’t understand why the Iman in the Hui Autonomous Region would recite scripture as he slaughtered chickens and sheep, but now I understand. We must have a measure of respect and thanks for the food we eat, especially the life with flesh and blood.

usercatt:

I’ve learned something. Turns out developed countries are more benevolent towards animals. Looks like hunting whales, hunting seals, slaughtering bulls are all displays of benevolence towards animals. But towards people is different, which is why the world is full of war, pissing on the corpses of the enemy (American soldiers), torturing Guantanamo prisoners of war, roasting prisoners of war on a fire (Canadian soldiers), truly developed countries of universal love.

菜刀向鬼子们的头上砍去:

Killing through abuse…

Uncivilized monkeys.

xigongda2009:

Sigh…such a cute pig gone like that.

也看也说:

Nature has always had a food chain, and man having to kill certain animals to survive can be said to be right and proper [a given]. But in nature, only man feels “cruelty” and “pity”. So, fulfilling the scientific law of the food chain in a manner that is acceptable by the vast majority of people is I think what man should choose to do. No matter how “cruel” animals are when hunting and killing, it is still within the scope of their natural instincts. As for man, man can choose to go with his instincts when starving, but when there is no lack of food and clothes, then perhaps man should choose a more humane way of ending an animals life. After all, it is all to cater to human society’s characteristic of kindness that there are animal protection organizations, that there are calls for alleviating the suffering of animals during slaughter and butchering. And this chopping of a pig in half on the streets, as well as the cruel mistreatment and killing of animals in various places around the world, that long ago exceeded the natural hunting and killing instincts of any animal in nature, is worth us considering eliminating as the world’s dominant species.

Only one thing to say: You can use various justifications to defend your abusive killing, but then you’ll just be farther and farther from human kindness.

迷失的狼群:

Vietnamese are just fucking barbaric people. Back then we gave them weapons to fight the Americans, but then they climbed onto our heads [turned on us]. Vietnamese are the same as Japanese. Deserve a fucking [beating].

理智亡命徒:

Compared to our slaughtering methods, they seem to be a bit cruel.

特罗巴:

Softly asks: The last photo, what are the MM doing???

小麦响叮当:

This is their memorial ceremony, a traditional custom that has been passed down, so even though it is a little bloody, them having it [tradition/culture] is still better than not having any at all, unlike us, where various memorial ceremonies have all been labeled superstition and suppressed/erased.

a1999hwm:

I wish the LZ would delete that splitting/chopping photograph. It’s too bloody, and would be bad if seen by children!

问非琐答:

Heavens! If one day they were to capture us as prisoners of war, Would they do this to us?

還我钓鱼島:

Judge the matter on its own merits, we can’t recklessly spout whatever we wish just because its Vietnamese monkeys. What difference is there between using a knife to stab and using a knife to chop? Who is more cruel than who? Seems to me chopping is a little more efficient/quick (depending on skill and strength). Those who have slaughtered a pig before all know, that the moment you stab it, it will still struggle for a bit before finally dying.

sssahyc:

The monkeys have hacked/chopped the Japanese, hacked the bananas, hacked Uncle Sam, and hacked the PLA, much less hacking pigs? Everything to them is just passing clouds

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  1. O GOD! Those a holes have no heart. I mean come on! Cut his throat and his die quickly and painlessly. Cutting him in half would be painful as hell as far as i can imagine. This is dumb culture. Cultures like this can suck dick. Ugh! Poor piggy rip. I’d love to cut the jerk who cut him if i get a chance. (mikeryan1996@ymail.com) :’(

  2. Wow. Get over it people. Really. In the US we hang pigs upside down by there hooves before we slit there throats. In Mexico and Spain they spear Bulls just for fun in a bull ring as they bleed to death people cheer. I think these are far worse than this festival by far. Leave this village alone. I suppose the thousands of years of animal sacrifice in some cultural religions should stop as well. Whoever decided the world should know about this is a idiot.

  3. The Vietnamese are more civilized than mainland Chinese, that’s for damn sure.

  4. I say Vietnam should keep it’s traditions.

    Resist the New World Order.

    It’s only bringing poverty, war, chaos to the world. Enslavement under the “Freedom” to choose bland entertainment. Peace under despicable war. Ignorance of a fake media propaganda machine for the “Strength” such as it is brings the pig-headed.

    The pig died in a gruesome way, but look at that pig versus any in the suffering concentration camps called “Factory Farms”. Like a bull facing a matador I’d rather it’s life a thousand times over the bull that stands touching unable to move a pen or another bull it’s life, is fed full of sh-t and tripe from dead bulls and then has to be tortured it’s so weak to get it to walk to slaughter…

    I’m in no way idolizing the east. Plenty of animal treatment there is worse, like “Bile Bears” which China is trying to stop. But this pig is far, FAR more healthy than almost anything Americans actually eat.

  5. I don’t know how people can call this abuse? It’s a quick kill, slicing the pig in half… there’s no torture… (i.e. prodding it, or cutting bits of its legs off or skinning it alive)… some people, sigh…

  6. They seem to have forgotton that Mao killed all their birds and slaugtered 60 million of the human population too.

  7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauroctony
    Tauroctony was the ancient Greek versione of this ritual.

  8. STOP CRITICISING !!!!! THIS IS JUST AN ANCIENT SACRIFICE CEREMONY . THIS CEREMONY EXSIST IN ALL CULTURE ,WHY PEOPLE TURN IT INTO A RACSIST TOPIC

  9. 杀猪的我倒是见过不少。不过这种杀法还是头一次。
    咋感觉特血腥还有点儿残忍呢?

    • Yeah, you gotta cut them lengthwise from snout to tail, not across the waist. These morons don’t even know how to kill a pig.

      • RACIST IS A BAD BEHAVIOUR ! SACRIFICE IS SACRIFICE NO MATTER HOW THEY KILL THE PIG . MAY BE THERE ARE SOME RELIGIONAL RESON WE DON’T KNOW . AND I’M NOT EXPERT IN THIS FIELD TOO .ANY WAY ,PLEASE CMT IN ENGLISH SO WE CAN SHARE AND EXPLAIN TO KNOW MORE AND LIVE IN PEACE

        • I did use English, I also used a good deal of lower-case letters as well, which helps in legibility.

          The parent said he’s seen a lot of pigs being killed, but this is the first time he’s seen this killing style. Then he suggested it might be considered a little bloodthirsty or cruel.

          Anyway, it’s not racist, nobody saying all Vietnamese are like this, just this village. Generally speaking this is a forum about criticising Chinese people and culture, not Vietnamese.

    • english please

  10. this more than just a festival but real hell

  11. Uugggggg. No Really to post these photos is just idiotic. Ohhh wait let me get my hands on photos of witch doctors killing animals for medicinal purposes in Africa, or The bleeding of a Cow so that a village may drink and thrive as they have been doing for thousands of years in South America. People are so hypocritical. And pigs hanging upside down by thier hoofs here in the U.S. Before they get slaughtered. I keep keep going but any intelligent person sees where I’m going with this.

  12. You can’t judge a nation’s level by how it treats it’s animals; the damn Indians worship cows!

  13. Do you know WHY the use a pig? Originally the ancients sacrificed 14 yr old virgin girls HOWEVER they are no 14 year old virgin girls left in VietNam so now they use a pig.

  14. Chinese Royalty in every Chinese dynasty would perform annual sacrificial rituals to Heaven, usually by slaughtering two healthy bulls as sacrifice. I’m sure the bulls were not happy.

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