Many of the literati have bad impressions of pigs, and poets and artists seldom treat them in their works. The Categorical Dictionary of Scenery and Objects in Ancient Poetry compiled by Chu Chung-yuen includes quite a lot of poems about dogs, horses, cows and sheep. But the category of pigs has only two poems.
由於一般文人雅士對豬的印象欠佳，詩人畫家的筆下，也很少用豬作題材，朱炯遠等主編的《古詩景物描寫類別辭典》收錄狗馬牛羊等畜類的詩句甚多，唯獨屬豬的，卻只有兩首：