In this way the story would appear to express a certain sympathy for creatures destined to wind up as meals in people's stomachs and to voice a small protest.
故事在此彷彿也對畜生之淪為人類口腹中物的下場，表示了一點慈悲愛物的憐憫和抗議。人畜相處，即是一種因緣，所以古代中國人有不食自家豢養牲畜的觀念。