What does bamboo shredded pork mean?

Stir-fried pork with shredded bamboo shoots is a phrase that parents often talk about nowadays, usually used to scare children. Stir-fried pork with bamboo shreds is not the name of the dish as everyone understands it, but a metaphor, which also has an allusion. This term has appeared in previous articles. If children are disobedient, parents will ask their children to taste the flavor of fried pork with bamboo shoots. So, what exactly does fried pork with bamboo shreds mean?

It refers to parents spanking their children with bamboo sticks because the children are disobedient.

Stir-fried pork with bamboo shreds:

Bamboo strips are willow branches, small sticks, thin bamboos, etc. Stir-fried meat is made by hitting the meat on the body.

It can be understood as using a bamboo board to hit a part of the body, such as the palm, buttocks, etc.

Stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots comes from the article "Remembering my childhood"

"When I was a kid, I was very naughty. I played all day long. I would break the glass of the neighbor next door or pull up the flowers and plants of the neighbor next door. The neighbors couldn't do anything to me. If I did something naughty, they would shake their heads and say, 'Children are ignorant, and they look cute.' But my father would not forgive me. As long as he knew that I did something naughty, I would be beaten with bamboo shreds and fried pork."

From this we can understand that stir-fried pork with bamboo shreds means punishment.