Industrious and capable farmer
I once posted a post saying that in today's rural areas, the life of farmers, compared with the past, is more than one or even a dozen grades, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it has increased dozens of times.
A friend left a message, saying that I:
And, if it's really like what you said, then, excuse me, in reality, the peasant friends in the countryside today should be very happy and happy, but why, what we hear is that there are still so many complaints, and they all say that they are not comfortable and have a very difficult life?
Yes, this friend's statement is true, it is a real phenomenon.
So, why is that?
Let's break them down one by one.
First of all, let's talk about the tremendous changes in the countryside, and see if there have been earth-shaking changes compared with the past.
First, judging from the wearing of clothes
As I said, I was born in six or five years, and I came from that time, so I can say that I was a first-hand witness.
In addition, I was born and raised in the countryside, and I experienced first-hand the rural life of those years.
If people start to remember at the age of five, I should remember it in the early seventies.
In front of me, I also have an older sister, she is five years older than me (because between me and my sister, there is an older brother, I heard my mother say that when I was five years old, I was not cured of illness and left us, so I have such a big age gap with my sister).
In my earliest memory, one year before the Chinese New Year, my sister had an awkward relationship with her parents, and even until the night of the Chinese New Year, she didn't eat delicious food on the table, and hid in the corner next to the table to wipe her tears.
Because we are in our rural hometown, we are very "in awe" of the New Year, and we pay attention to a happy New Year.
Moreover, in the days before and after the year, we must talk about a smooth heart, otherwise, the next year's life will not be smooth.
Therefore, the parents can only use good words to coax my sister.
My sister was probably a teenager that year, why did she mess with her parents?
It's because of the Chinese New Year, her parents didn't buy her new clothes.
Teenage girls, for the New Year, are wearing old clothes with patches, so she is sad and angry.
In my memory, my sister was eighteen or nineteen years old, and when she was one or twenty years old, she usually wore clothes with patches.
Of course, this is not only my sister, nor is it only our family, in fact, all people are like this.
This was a common phenomenon at the time.
I remember that at that time, there was a very famous slip of the tongue, called:
"Three years of new and three years of old, and another three years of sewing and mending", isn't this piece of clothing "nine" years after wearing it?
Is there a comparison with what it is now?
I once saw a colleague's sixteen-year-old daughter spend more than 300 yuan to buy a pair of pants, but because they didn't fit, she only wore them for three days and then threw them away.
Nine years and three days, if you compare this concept, how many times has this clothing improved?
Judging by the food eaten
I can safely say that my friends who are close to my age must have looked forward to the Chinese New Year at that time, just like me.
The reason is very simple, at that time, we children looked forward to the Chinese New Year the most, just to have a good meal.
Because, at that time, there was a shortage of food, and it was difficult to eat enough, let alone eat any good things.
As I said earlier, at that time, we rural people attached great importance to the New Year, and although it was difficult on weekdays, when it came to the New Year, adults would still do their best to let the family eat a relatively "rich" Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
Therefore, the Chinese New Year is the time when we children enjoy the most and live the fastest.
A while ago, I saw a post from a netizen saying that he was born in 59 and lived in a small mountain village in a remote mountainous area.
He said that he had never been hungry, and said that at that time, although it was impossible to eat chicken, fish, meat and eggs every day on weekdays, it was not as bitter as "some people" said, at least he was completely full and warmly dressed......
Personally, I think that his statement is not reliable, at least there are a lot of exaggerations.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if this netizen's statement is true, compared with now, there is actually a difference between heaven and earth in terms of eating.
Now, who of us can't eat what we want? Tired of eating big fish and meat?
Even, many friends are afraid of eating big fish and meat, because if you eat too much, people will get fat.
And if you are fat, it will affect your health.
From the past Chinese New Year, you can only eat a meal of meat, and it is a "limited edition (because it doesn't make people eat a round belly)", to what you want to eat now, how big do you say the gap is?
Third, from the perspective of living conditions
I also posted a micro headline yesterday with a few pictures of old houses in the countryside in the past.
A young netizen sent me a private message saying:
"It's unimaginable! Farmers lived in houses like this at that time! If there was an earthquake, how could it happen?"
Yes, it's hard to imagine, but it's real, it's a fact.
At that time, people, especially those in the countryside, had no conditions to build brick houses because of poor conditions and lack of money (in fact, bricks and tiles were already available at that time), so they could only live in adobe houses built with local materials in order to save money.
This kind of house, not to mention in case of a major natural disaster such as an earthquake, even if it encounters a major flood year, there will be a danger of collapse, which is very unsafe.
Looking at the current countryside, I dare not say 100 percent that people have already lived in brick houses, but 80 or 90 percent should always have them, right?
What's more, there are also those small "western" buildings.
I remember when I was a child, I heard those adults often sing a smooth phrase in their mouths, saying, "Electric light and telephone, upstairs and downstairs, heaven day, come early!"
Compared with the adobe houses at that time, how many times better is the living environment and living conditions of the peasant friends?
I don't need to say anything more about this, right?
Fourth, finally, let's look at the "line" of clothing, food, housing and transportation
To walk, you need a road, so let's look at the road first.
I remember when I was fifteen or sixteen years old (it was already the early eighties), I heard that a "painted" road (asphalt road) was going to be built at the commune station, which was about 20 miles away from our village.
Because, at that time, our village was full of dirt roads, and when it rained, it was difficult to walk.
And most people can't wear rain boots, and many people even have to walk barefoot on dirt roads in order to save.
I was once stuck in the foot, because I walked barefoot on a dirt road, and I was pierced by a stone.
Let's take a look at transportation again.
It was also at the time of the "responsibility system" of land that people suddenly had more broadband in their hands, and several families in the village bought "bicycles (dialects, bicycles)", so that most people who did not have the conditions to buy them were greedy.
are all ruthless, they must work hard and save money to buy a "foot pulling car".
I'll just say one more thing here.
This happened when I was 29 years old.
At that time, I had not yet come to Jinan to work in Weifang.
The place where I work is about 60 miles away from my rural hometown, so as long as I am off work or on vacation, I basically go home.
I clearly remember that it was October 1 of that year, and I went home again.
That day, as soon as I entered the village, I saw a bunch of people around the entrance of the village from a distance.
When I looked at it in the past, I realized that a bunch of people were watching a "motorcycle".
I put a quotation mark around the motorcycle because, if it were placed today, this motorcycle would be a bit "cold" and a bit in vain.
It was a Jialing car.
Now if people see it, they can only use it in a simple and humble way...... and other words to describe it.
But at that time, in our small village, it really caused quite a "sensation".
What is particularly striking is that in the crowd of onlookers, there is a special person.
The special person is the "10,000 yuan household" in our village who has a hawthorn garden.
At that time, I remember that the "10,000 households" carefully stroked the car with their hands and said something like this:
"If I can ride a motorcycle like this that doesn't have to use its own pedals (it's more than a bicycle), this life will be worth it, and it won't be in vain!"
This "10,000 yuan household", in terms of seniority, I call him uncle, because he has brains, vision, and courage, when he just "responsibility system", he spent a very low price and contracted a hawthorn orchard on the west ridge of the village that no one dared to pack.
In less than a few years, it became a famous "10,000 yuan household".
So, Uncle is a well-known person around us.
In fact, the price of the motorcycle at that time was not very high, 1500 yuan, because it was a second-hand car.
But even "10,000 yuan households" like Uncle feel that they can't afford it, let alone ordinary people.
The owner of the motorcycle, from a neighboring village, is a "pig cutter", and the pig cutter is the craftsman who castrates the pigs.
At that time, in our rural area, every household raised pigs, and it was not a household that raised one or two heads, five or six heads, or ten heads and eight heads.
Therefore, the pig cutter's work is not finished, and it is a unique business, so it is very rich.
But he was very modest, and only said that he bought this car for the convenience of going from village to village.
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When I say this, I am saying that maybe this uncle in the village wanted his life, but he didn't expect that later, he not only bought a motorcycle that was several times better than the "Jialingzi" car, but he also drove his own car when he was in his fifties.
A while ago, by chance, I sat down with this uncle on an occasion, and when I talked about it, my uncle was infinitely emotional, and said:
Unthinkable...... I didn't expect it to develop to such a point......
Now, in the countryside, I don't dare to say that every household has a car, but if we say that 50 or 60 percent of them have a car, there should be one, right?
Thirty or forty years ago, friends in the countryside must not have expected this to this extent, right?
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Through the above past and present, the comparison of clothing, food, housing and transportation, I said that the life and life of peasant friends have increased dozens of times, which should not be an exaggeration, and it is that peasant friends have personal feelings and experiences that can be seen and touched, right?
This one doesn't need to say anything, it's real.
So, why, do we often see some friends saying that the current peasant friends are still having a hard time?
In fact, this topic is not that peasant friends are "crying poor" and "selling miserably".
The actual situation is due to the difference in the angle of this "comparison".
Compared with the past, the life of peasant friends has indeed increased by dozens of times.
But this is only a longitudinal comparison.
If you compare it horizontally, this "dozens of times" seems "tiny" again.
Let's see, in terms of income, some people can earn seven or eight thousand yuan a month, or even more than 10,000 yuan.
What is the monthly income of a farmer?
According to some data, the average amount of land owned by our farmers is one and a half acres.
So, what is the net income of farmers planting acres of land now?
Some people calculate that it is about 1,000 yuan, some people calculate that it is about 4 or 500 yuan, and some people include the labor invested, and the calculated income is "0" yuan, or even a loss.
Personally, I think that the net income of one acre of land is about four or five hundred yuan, which is still reliable.
Let's take 500 yuan, divide 500 yuan by 12 months, and the monthly income is about 41 yuan and 6 cents, plus the income of half an acre of land, that is, more than 60 yuan.
Let's see how big the gap is in this number, right?
The more important reason why today's farmers feel sad is the expense.
Of course, low income is a reason, but if the income is low and the cost is low, people will not find life so difficult.
It's just that there are too many things that must be spent now, and they are too expensive and too expensive.
Sick, a small cold, thousands of thousands of flowers, a small operation tens of thousands of dollars.
Children go to school, get married, interact with people, and have a full moon on the birthday of the child...... Wait, wait, how many people have a headache, and how many families can't bear it?
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After saying this, I think that friends should understand that the life of farmers is getting better and better, and I don't know how many times better, but they still feel that life is still so difficult and difficult, right?
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