What was the standard of living of an average family in the 70s?
The 70s were half a century ago!
Food stamps, meat stamps, tunics, "really cool shirts", permanent bicycles, barefoot doctors, 14-inch black-and-white televisions......
If you are a young person of Generation Z, you must have heard your grandparents mention these past events!
In the 70s, it was very enviable to be able to work as a worker in a factory
The 70s were a special time: the old era was passing and the new was coming. After years of hard work, people can finally make their lives and their families' lives better day by day through hard work and hardship!
So, what was the standard of living of ordinary Chinese families in the 70s?
In 1978, an Austrian tourist named Herbert Stachelberger came to China with a professional camera and quietly photographed the life of Chinese at that time.
On the streets of a city in the 70s, people were queuing up to buy breakfast, and the sanitary conditions at that time were poor, but gutter oil was generally not used.
Most of the children in the 70s looked like this, from top to bottom, either army green or navy blue. However, the boy in the photo has actually started to wear plastic slippers.
In China in the 70s, there were still many places where there was no running water, and people washed vegetables and clothes by the river.
In China in the 70s, families who could afford to buy cameras were already very rare! At that time, digital cameras were not popular, and most of them used domestic brands such as Phoenix, Seagull, and Tiger Hill.
In China in the late 70s, people's living conditions gradually improved, but there were still many talented people in the countryside who still wore patched clothes and shoes.
In China in the 70s, greenhouse vegetables had not yet appeared, and the farmers transported the vegetables to the city to sell. In the era of simple folk customs, people never lacked catties or two.
In the 70s, ordinary family living rooms would not hang any Chinese paintings or landscape paintings, and most of them would hang a glass frame for family commemorative photos.
In China in the 70s, if it was a state-run store, it did not use the folk kind of pole scale, but used this kind of bench scale.
In China in the 70s, silk products were very expensive, and ordinary families could only wear cotton products. In the photo, a beautiful girl is sorting out a silkworm cocoon, and the girl at that time was very simple and natural beauty.
In China in the 70s, few people lived in high-rise buildings, and most people lived in overcrowded courtyard houses. But the neighborhood is very harmonious.
Children in the 70s didn't have any toys at home. You can only entertain yourself with a limited amount of furniture, many of which have been used for generations.
In China in the 70s, it was a very luxurious thing to go to the city to take a family commemorative photo. At that time, photographers could support their families with one person's salary.
In China in the 70s, I rarely went to restaurants to eat all year round. At that time, the conditions of the restaurant were very simple, and most people still ate at home. Food delivery was not popular in those days.
This beautiful girl actually took the car home from work! This is still the 70s, and it seems that her family background is not ordinary.
The above is the life of ordinary Chinese people in the 70s in the lens of Austrian tourists. It's 2024, dedicate these photos to people born in the 70s, the past is unbearable, don't cry after reading it! Ordinary families in the 70s turned out to be like this.