In the fifties of the last century, the mainland began a huge patriotic public health campaign - the results of eliminating the four evils, and even handing in the results of the four evils, became the children's homework. The four pests at that time were flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows. People have thought of various ways to eliminate the four evils, so let's look at a set of old photos together and reminisce about that time.
People clean up garbage on the streets, leaving the four pests nowhere to hide
Good sanitation has become the basis for eliminating the four evils, and everyone has taken to the streets to clean up garbage.
Children took to the streets to spread the word about eliminating the four evils
Children were also organized and brought with them various tools to spread the knowledge of eliminating the four evils.
A state-run fly-free store in Tonghua City
The fly-free store has become a typical product of the four pests of that year.
The Sparrow Hunt is killing sparrows
People spontaneously organized teams to hunt sparrows, and there was a saying at that time that when the sparrows fell together, the grain was lost. So sparrows are also included in the list of the four evils.
Everyone is cleaning up the flies' gathering place - the cesspit
In order to eliminate flies, the manure piles and manure pits on the side of rural roads should also be buried and cleaned one by one.
Every household is plugging rat holes
Every household is blocking a rat hole and catching mice.
The old man teaches the skill of catching sparrows
Old men teach children the art of catching sparrows.
Everyone stood on the roof to drive away the sparrows
People also went to high places, waving flag sticks to drive away sparrows so that they had nowhere to stay.
Showcase one-day anti-finches results
Caught sparrows, mice, flies and mosquitoes are also displayed together.
Tonghua eliminated the results of the four evils in a certain place
The results of the four evils displayed in a certain place in Tonghua.
Since many places are catching sparrows in large numbers, resulting in pest infestations, experts suggest that we want to eliminate the plague rather than sparrows, and since then sparrows have withdrawn from the ranks of the four pests, and bed bugs have been added. At the end of the 70s of the last century, as cockroaches gradually became the main household pest, "bed bugs and cockroaches" were listed as one of the four pests; After that, the harm of bed bugs gradually decreases, and in the "four pests", bed bugs are completely replaced by cockroaches. The four pests we call today actually mean the four creatures of flies, mosquitoes, mice, and cockroaches.
In fact, the original intention of eliminating the four evils was to deal with the germ war launched by the US imperialists in Korea and the northeast of the mainland, improve the level of health, and smash the enemy's bacteriological warfare. At the same time, it has also greatly improved the level of public health in urban and rural areas, and reduced the spread of many infectious diseases. But the campaign has also brought some negative effects, such as the killing of sparrows in large numbers, resulting in pest infestation, reduced food production and so on.
Old photos have memories, the world can be rich, the years are full of poetry, cherish memories, live up to the time, live up to Shaohua, and hope that life will be better.