Taiwan Council of Agriculture knowledge portal — 梅山豬 (Meishan pig)

This file reproduces a published official-extension breed profile for research. No original standard is authored here.

This is the Meishan entry in the “Pig Theme Hall” (豬主題館) of Taiwan’s Agricultural Knowledge Portal (農業知識入口網), operated under the Ministry of Agriculture (formerly Council of Agriculture). It describes the breed as imported to Taiwan from Japan in 1994 and gives a conformation summary used by Taiwan’s Livestock Research Institute.

Source

Publisher: Agricultural Knowledge Portal, Ministry of Agriculture, Taiwan (農業知識入口網)
Page: 梅山豬
First published on site: 26 August 2008 (Republic of China year 97/08/26)
Last updated on site: 31 December 2024 (113/12/31)
URL: https://kmweb.moa.gov.tw/subject/subject.php?id=20797
Retrieved: 19 August 2026

Original Chinese

**梅山豬（Meishan）

品種特徵**

頭大額寬，額部皺褶多，耳大軟而下垂，耳尖與嘴角齊或超過。凹，腹部下垂，皮膚厚且粗糙，毛色黑色或青灰色，毛稀疏。四肢短粗，末端為白色，俗稱〝四白腳〞；乳頭以 8 對者居多。於畜產試驗所的紀錄中，初產女豬產仔數較低，但經產母豬平均可產 12 頭以上的仔豬。

品種來源

梅山豬原產中國大陸江蘇省梅山縣，並於 1974 年起與同屬太湖地區的二花臉、楓涇、嘉興黑、橫涇、米豬及沙烏頭等豬種，統稱”太湖豬”。太湖豬以繁殖力高著稱於世，是全世界已知豬品種中產仔數最高者。梅山豬不僅在多產性與繁殖效率上為世界公認，且經日本的試驗研究結果，顯示梅山豬是現今最具原種性且最純的中國豬；其與一般豬種最大的不同在於它保留最純的原種性，不像一般豬種已因雜交而原種性逐漸退化。因此，梅山豬廣受全球重視且為改良豬種繁殖力之重要遺傳基因資源。鄰近的日本於 1986 年自中國江蘇省引進梅山豬後，進行一系列性能調查和雜交試驗。畜產試驗所於 1994 年 7 月從日本引進 2 公 3 母，並於同年 8 月上旬開始配種。

畜產種原紀錄

紀錄事項:

1、長壽健康母豬

西元1995年4月29日出生，為原始引進豬隻之第一代後裔，屆3300日齡(2004.5)時，仍行動自如，堪稱為台灣最長壽的梅山豬。

2、畜試所保種族群分娩18頭仔豬之種母豬有5頭，而以生於西元1995年4月25日，耳號0004-12的母豬其，活仔數16頭為最多。

English translation

**Meishan pig (Meishan)

Breed characteristics**

The head is large and the forehead broad; there are many wrinkles on the forehead. The ears are large, soft, and pendulous; the ear tips are level with the corners of the mouth or extend beyond them. [The back is] concave; the belly is pendulous. The skin is thick and coarse. Coat color is black or bluish gray; the hair is sparse. The limbs are short and thick, with white extremities, commonly called “four white feet” (四白腳). Teats are mostly 8 pairs. In Livestock Research Institute records, primiparous gilts have lower litter size, but multiparous sows average 12 or more piglets.

Breed origin

The Meishan pig is native to Meishan County, Jiangsu Province, mainland China. From 1974 onward, together with other pig breeds of the Taihu region — Erhualian, Fengjing, Jiaxing Black, Hengjing, Mi pig, and Shawutou — it has been collectively called the “Taihu pig.” Taihu pigs are famous worldwide for high prolificacy and have the highest litter size among known pig breeds in the world. The Meishan is not only internationally recognized for prolificacy and reproductive efficiency; Japanese experimental research has also indicated that the Meishan is today the Chinese pig with the most ancestral character and the greatest purity. Its greatest difference from ordinary pig breeds is that it retains the purest ancestral character, whereas ordinary breeds have gradually lost ancestral character through crossing. Therefore the Meishan is widely valued worldwide and is an important genetic resource for improving prolificacy in pigs. Neighboring Japan imported Meishan pigs from Jiangsu Province, China, in 1986 and carried out a series of performance surveys and crossing trials. The Livestock Research Institute imported 2 boars and 3 sows from Japan in July 1994 and began breeding in early August of the same year.

Livestock germplasm records

Recorded items:

Long-lived healthy sow

Born 29 April 1995, a first-generation descendant of the original imported pigs. At 3,300 days of age (May 2004) it was still moving freely, and may be called Taiwan’s longest-lived Meishan pig.

In the Livestock Research Institute conservation population there were 5 breeding sows that farrowed 18 piglets. The sow born 25 April 1995, ear number 0004-12, had the most live piglets, 16.