A household in Huai'an, East China's Jiangsu Province, was recently found to be pickling over 4,000 pig heads which were hanging on shelves in neat rows in its backyard, startling its neighbors. Photo: screenshot of The Paper on Sina Weibo.

A household in Huai'an, East China's Jiangsu Province, was recently found to be pickling over 4,000 pig heads which were hanging on shelves in neat rows in its backyard, startling its neighbors. 

According to the household owner, surnamed Guo, these are just the first batch of 2021. Each pig head can be sold for 200 yuan ($30.96), for which she hoped to make profits and give her child a better life. 

One of Guo's neighbors felt a pang of envy at the mountain of pig heads, which he thought was "what 'wealthy' people's backyards look like - so pretty and neat." 

"The rows of pig heads look incredible, but I can imagine how tough the work of pickling must be, given that she had to remove the hair on their heads and clean them one by one," a netizen on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo commented.

Global Times