{"id":50306,"date":"2021-03-11T13:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T13:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=50306"},"modified":"2021-03-11T16:06:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T16:06:57","slug":"tiger-bone-wine-hu-gu-jiu-pinyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/03\/tiger-bone-wine-hu-gu-jiu-pinyin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger bone wine (hu gu jiu) pinyin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam the place Lam Dong<br \/>\nAnd In a shop was stored<br \/>\nA tiger in an aquarium<br \/>\nAnd another in deep freeze<br \/>\nThe culprit he was<br \/>\nArrested and fined<br \/>\nA lot of dong<br \/>\nIt takes 8 years<br \/>\nTo create this wine<br \/>\nAnd of course its wholly wrong<\/p>\n<p>It began  back in the Han Dynasty<br \/>\n500 AD<br \/>\nAnd really it resurfaced<br \/>\nIn 1980<br \/>\na time when the middle classes<br \/>\nWere gaining money and<br \/>\nWanted to take advantage<br \/>\nRight across the land<br \/>\nTigers are in short supply<br \/>\nAnd thats because we see<br \/>\nThem being hunted and murdered<br \/>\nFor this awful quackery<\/p>\n<p>The potency was all to do<br \/>\nWith wildness but we saw<br \/>\nWith so many being slaughtered<br \/>\nWanting to make more<br \/>\nThey saw the birth of tiger farms<br \/>\nIn 1986<br \/>\nBasically they were known as  zoo\u2019s<br \/>\nWhich knocked the meds for six<\/p>\n<p>Need is that live tigers<br \/>\nFeed themselves from the wild<br \/>\nThey chose their food<br \/>\nThey catch their food<br \/>\nAnd their energy is styled<br \/>\nOn much more  \u201cyang\u201d nutrition<br \/>\nWhereas farms extraordinarily<br \/>\nTend to use boiled chickens<br \/>\nWhich are weakening and be<\/p>\n<p>Wrong really on all counts<br \/>\nFor the farmed tigers<br \/>\nAre weak<br \/>\nWeedy and emasculated<br \/>\nCaged up, far below their peek<br \/>\nUse made of such animals<br \/>\nDoes not activate or mean<br \/>\nIts empty and its pointless<br \/>\nAnd when using them its obscene<br \/>\nThe efficacy was questionable<br \/>\nAnd with Tiger numbers falling<br \/>\nThey carried on making the Tiger Wine<br \/>\nBut then they were not calling<\/p>\n<p>It Tiger Bone it was labelled<br \/>\nTonic Wine thats all<br \/>\nAnd they were using zoo animals<br \/>\nAnd Lion bones  a big haul<br \/>\nOf them were shipped to Viet Nam<br \/>\nFrom South Africa and there<br \/>\nThey processed bones into<br \/>\nTiger Cake  lion monkey turtle<br \/>\nFair<\/p>\n<p>Rheumatism and Arthritis<br \/>\nAnd general weakness was<br \/>\nHistorically the ailments<br \/>\nAnd now it was because<br \/>\nThey had killed off most of the Tigers<br \/>\nAnd the black marketeers<br \/>\nWere making a small fortune<br \/>\nAnd lying it appears<\/p>\n<p>There is an awful lot of suffering<br \/>\nTrophy hunters too<br \/>\nAnd Poachers are still trapping<br \/>\nAnd what we have seen they do<br \/>\nIs falsify  the labelling<br \/>\nUsing and abusing souls<br \/>\nSuch a wretched life for them<br \/>\nCaged up every day<br \/>\nFed on chilled and frozen meats<br \/>\nAnd with their  health they pay<\/p>\n<p>Its a cruel and nasty business<br \/>\nIts tactless and its wrong<br \/>\nIts gross impropriety<br \/>\nTigers don\u2019t belong<br \/>\nIn dirty filthy cramped up cages<br \/>\nThe food so often rank<br \/>\nTheir babies taken from them<br \/>\nMore money in the bank<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnamese  who kept the<br \/>\nTigers was a hopeless case<br \/>\nA wicked sinful thoughtless troll<br \/>\nMoral virtues not a trace<br \/>\nNo consciousness to think of<br \/>\nAn angel never he<br \/>\nTo imagine what those animals felt<br \/>\nWith their integrity<\/p>\n<p>An all for some elixir<br \/>\nSome curative of sorts<br \/>\nObdurate and stubborn<br \/>\nUnashamed and hopeless<br \/>\nAs evil as can be<br \/>\nwith dreadful thoughts<br \/>\nThose poor tigers<br \/>\nAbandoned at the end<br \/>\nAll I can say<br \/>\nIs that so called<br \/>\nrotten Vietnamese<br \/>\nShould have in reality<br \/>\nNot been fined<br \/>\nBut ended the same way<\/p>\n<p>Pickled and dumped<br \/>\nIn a sewer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam the place Lam Dong And In a shop was stored A tiger in an aquarium And another in deep freeze The culprit he was Arrested and fined A lot of dong It takes 8 years To create this wine &hellip; 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