In the 1970s, the family composition remembered that it began in the third grade of primary school, and there was a filling form at the beginning, and generally there was a mandatory column for family composition. The first half of elementary school was attended at the home school, when

Family composition in the seventies

I remember that it was the beginning of the third grade of primary school, and there was a filling form that was generally required to fill in the family composition column.

The first half of the primary school was attended at the home school, when there was only primary school and it was a mixed class. There have been a few times the students filled out the form, we do not understand, the teacher taught us how to fill in, one of the column of family components, the teacher told us to go home to ask the parents, and then fill in, and told us that the family components are: poor peasants, middle peasants, lower middle peasants, rich peasants, landlords, etc., I went home and asked my mother (my father worked outside, once a week or half a month back home), what is the composition of our family, my mother said it was a poor peasant. So I filled in the field of family composition as poor peasants, and a classmate in the class saw that I filled in the poor peasants, and shouted loudly: Your mother's family is a landlord, you can't fill in the poor peasants. The first time I knew that my mother's family was a landlord element, and I was thinking about it and was about to shed tears of grievance, the teacher said: Follow my father's family to discuss the composition.

After school, I ran home and asked my mother: Why is your family a landlord, which made my classmates laugh at me.

My mother said: This is not up to me, it is your grandfather's business, a lifetime of hard work to earn money and save money, buy a few acres of land, liberated, and then rated as a landlord. Your grandfather is a teacher, and although the family element is a landlord, he can still be a teacher, which shows that it is not only the theory of composition. You just have to study hard, don't take this to heart.

I was speechless, and from then on I was silent about the family composition of my mother's family, and then my family moved to a new place, and my classmates asked me about my parents' family composition, and only said poor peasants.

In the second half of the third grade, my family moved to the place where my father worked and transferred to a new school, which was a commune school, because there were several factories and troops and other units in the station, so the students had rural ones, factories, troops and other children.

I still need to fill out the form, and I found that some students filled in the "worker", "revolutionary soldier", "intellectual", etc. in the column of family composition, and I was very surprised that there were still these ingredients.

When asked about the "worker" classmate, he said that his grandfather was a worker. His father was section chief and grew up working in factories. His father said that when the family was made, it was given a "worker".

When asked about the classmates of the "revolutionary soldiers", he said that his grandfather was an orphan, later joined the army, fought with the Japanese, and once shot the Japanese in the nose, and also killed the Japanese, and his nose is still crooked. His father also joined the army until now, serving as a regimental commander.

In those years, the class composition had a huge impact on the political future of the individual, and those with bad family composition were affected by the promotion of cadres, joining the army, recruiting workers, and enrolling in school. Until the early and mid-eighties, the state clearly stipulated that the family composition does not affect these, only the personal performance, which makes those who have bad family composition grow a breath.

I remember a senior in our school, who studied well, but the family was a landlord, who went home to farm after graduation, and suddenly one day came to our school as a teacher. I finally felt different. This senior teacher is still in contact with me.