date:Jun 30, 2015
d this special way to preserve meat. In many areas, people call sausages la chang, literally the 12th-lunar-month intestine, because in times of scarcity, only at the end of a year would common people slaughter pigs for meat to celebrate the coming Spring Festival. For many families, that was probably the only time they would get meat, and they needed to preserve it for days to be eaten bit by bit. Gradually, people found meat stuffed into pig casings could be preserved for a long time because t