Why did a pig to be chosen in the famous novel the Journey to the West, because pigs are intelligent and adaptable animals. Human need to learn from pigs for omnivorous eating, even on diet, haha.
What you can find for ugliness, right here: large heads and short necks, with small eyes and prominent ears. Their heads have a distinctive snout, ending in a disc-shaped nose. Short legs and tails, compare to horse.
Maybe this is why they are the number 12: They have four toes on each foot.
I have found out that the Pig Years are the dangerous or turbulent years for Mao most of the time: 1935,1947,1959, 1971,with Zhang Guotao,Chiang Kaishek,Pen Dehuai and Lin Biao respectively, the most dangerous one is in 1935 after he won the first step of power struggle.猪犹智慧胜愚曹, Guo Moruo\'s poem positioned pigs properly while Mao ignored them or hated to mention.
As a researcher not so smart though, I had a pig day during my decade-long journey. My dictionary was as dirty as a pigsty until I restarted with my mother\'s clean one and with more and more less marks. My pig period is over. But not a dragon yet, although it should my dragon year now, I therefore need to learn from monkey and finish my journey to the west.