有一人遇餓虎。將遭啖，哀懇之曰：“圈有肥猪，願以自代。”虎許之，隨至其家。
喚婦取猪啖虎。婦不舍，曰：“所存荳腐頗多，亦堪一飽。”
其人曰：“罷々。看這一箇主客，可是喫素的？”
A man came across a hungry tiger. [When he] was about to be devoured, [he] begged it wretchedly, saying, “[I] have a fat pig in my pigsty and would like to offer [it] instead of myself.” The tiger agreed and followed him to his place.
[The man] asked his wife to fetch the pig to feed to the tiger. His wife was reluctant, saying, “[I’ve] got plenty of tofu – that should also be enough to make a good meal.”
The man said, “Forget it. Have a look at this guest! Does it look like a vegetarian?” [1]
* From Feng Menglong 馮夢龍 (1574-1646), Xiaofu 笑府, 12.5a: https://ctext.org/library.pl?if=en&file=92729&page=153.
[1] In colloquial Chinese, a "vegetarian" also implies a mild temperament or meekness. This figurative sense is more often used in rhetorical questions (as in this joke) and negative expressions (e.g. "someone is not a vegetarian", meaning that person is not to be messed with).
Hanging scroll by an anonymous artist of the Qing dynasty, in the style of Chen Juzhong 陳居中 (fl. early 13th century)
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Makes me want to start eating meat again.