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Each period has its own characteristics of the times, so what do you think of when it comes to the production team?
It is estimated that everyone will think of the life from the early days of the founding of New China to the seventies and eighties, which occupied the most important memories of most people in the last century.
The production team was mainly established in the early days of New China, because the country was in a state of waste waiting to be rebuilt, in order to accelerate the country's economic development faster, the production team had to adopt the method of joint production, which could not only effectively organize the peasants to carry out the production activities of their own land, but also strengthen the ability of rural self-sufficiency.
Today, let's use a group of old photos of the production team to understand what kind of work the peasants were doing all day and night during that period.
The most striking feature of the production team is that everyone needs to work together, and the people in the village must come to the field to do farm work within the specified time, and the daily work will be counted as work points, and if the regulations are violated, work points will be deducted.
This model is very similar to the convenience of modern people to work, so everyone at that time worked diligently in the fields every day in order to get more work at the end of the month.
The young people in front of them stood in two rows, listening to the elderly people in front of them talk about the requirements and precautions for work, each holding a farm tool in their hands, and their eyes were full of perseverance and seriousness.
Many of them were born and raised in this land, and they must have learned a lot from these experiences.
The work of the production team is very heavy, and the amount of tasks per day is not small, but fortunately, the production team is a big family, and it will be a little hard and lonely to do these farm work alone, but with everyone's company, these farm work has also added a lot of fun, and gags each other in leisure time, which can relieve a lot of fatigue.
The man in front of him was struggling to drag the cart behind him, and he seemed to be carrying a heavy package, and there was a friend behind him who was helping him push the cart to reduce some weight, and the man's face was filled with a happy smile, as if to say, with the company of friends, the work was much easier.
During the period of the production team, in addition to the need to work together, one of the most obvious features is that everyone needs to eat together, which is the so-called "big pot rice".
There will be a special canteen in the village, in which the corresponding villagers will be responsible for the food of the whole village every day, and everyone can be described as a real "family-like companion".
The man in the photo is the cook of the village canteen, he is wearing a special apron and hat, which shows that the hygienic environment of the canteen can be guaranteed to a certain extent.
The dumplings floating in the pot seem to be very numerous, and the man is scooping them one by one with a spatula, taking care of the food of a village, which shows the huge workload.
In the activities of the production team, because of the difference in the way in which men and women calculate the work points, men will work more than women in one day, so the work of men in the team will be heavier.
I saw that the men in the photo each carried a long burden on their shoulders, carrying two buckets of water at both ends of the burden, some of them were bending down to get water, and some of them were going back and forth between the field and the water source, frequently carrying water just to water the crops in the field, and often one person had to make several trips back and forth.
As the saying goes, "women are inferior to men", women also play a pivotal role in the production activities of the production team, and are almost not inferior to men when doing a lot of farm work.
Everyone shuttles between heaven and earth together every day, and even women sometimes come home after a day of farm work, and they also need to take care of the daily life of the family.
I saw a row of women standing in front of me, each holding a hoe in their hands, they were wearing simple clothes, and they also wore a towel on their heads, which could not only protect them from the sun, but also wipe away sweat.
They had just finished their hard work in the fields, and they were finally able to rest, and they were all panting against their hoes, and although life was very hard, they still had bright smiles on their faces.
After a year of hard work, the most healing thing for farmers is the harvest season, when everyone can clearly see the fruits of their labor.
In front of me was the scene of the autumn harvest of the production team, and I saw a lot of grain scattered on the ground, and most of the grain had been packed in bags by the farmers.
Although the weather was very hot and everyone had to wear straw hats to shield themselves from the sun, they were still working hard when they looked at the food results they had worked hard for a year and thought of the better life in the future.
As we all know, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of the people's minds were still in the state of male superiority and inferiority to women, with men being the heads of the family, and women having a low family status and no right to speak.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, equality between men and women began to be promoted, and women's status in the family was respected, and the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China stipulated equality between men and women, freedom of marriage, and guaranteed the legal status of women in the family.
At the end of the day's work, the female comrades of the women's association listened to the new policy, and when they heard about the legitimate rights and interests of women such as equality between men and women, they smiled happily as if they had heard a great news.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the number of intellectuals was very small, and most of the peasants could not read and write, and did not understand the new policies, so after the production team finished their daily work, they led everyone to understand the new policies, study Chairman Mao's important speeches, and let everyone understand the development status of the country.
The people in the photo are gathered in a circle, consciously learning Chairman Mao's important speech, and everyone's spirits are vibrant.
The children listened to their elders talk about the hard days before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese in China, and the happy life established under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
At that time, the level of science and technology was very limited, and farming machines such as cultivators and harvesters were rare, and the people could only rely on the most primitive ways to plough the land, such as using oxen or shovels to speed up the efficiency of farming, and try their best to plow the land and sow seeds before the end of spring.
I saw that it was the busy season of the production team again, and the women also began to go down to the field and lead the ploughing cattle to start the work of ploughing the land.
The girls were not afraid of being dirty or tired, so they scooped up their trouser legs and pushed the plough in the field, although there were no large agricultural machinery, the people still relied on their diligent hands and ploughing oxen to complete acre after acre of farming.
Manure as fertilizer is rare in the current era, most farmers are directly buy fertilizer to fertilize, but at that time, the level of science and technology was limited, and a large amount of fertilizer could not be produced on a large scale, so the people had no choice but to use manure as fertilizer.
In the photo, in order to have a better harvest this year, the production team rolled up their sleeves and began to work in the thatched house, and the sheepfold was used as fertilizer in the field, and the feces were pulled down to the ground by enduring the stench.
We all know that the precipitation in the northwest is low, the lack of fertile land is mostly wasteland, sandstorms are frequent, and the grain output is also very small, so the people can only rely on their own hands to reclaim the wasteland, just do it, only to see the production team organized a group of young people with shovels to start hoeing, and the young people waving hoes look particularly high-spirited.
No matter what era the weather has always been an uncontrollable factor, and it was no exception in the early days of New China, and at that time, there was no accurate weather forecast as now, and various preventive measures were taken in advance.
The people in the picture look at the wheat that has just grown up and happily hold it in the palm of their hands, as mentioned above, as long as they do not encounter bad weather, they can have a good autumn harvest, the people look at the wheat and imagine the appearance after the Mid-Autumn Festival, think about the white steamed buns, hot buns, they are discussing, thinking about it is full of energy, and the people at that time are so simple.
In those days, carrying things, rushing to rely on donkeys, tractors are a rare thing, some remote areas have never seen what a tractor looks like, some people just saw the tractor when they thought the tractor was a monster, which shows how rare the tractor was at that time.
I saw the people in the photo to see the tractor, just like seeing the baby like to spare no time, some people also climbed on the tractor to hold it, when the technician introduced the tractor, people listened to him with a confused face, asking all kinds of strange questions, after all, with a tractor is equivalent to saving a lot of manpower.
In contrast to the men, who plough the fields every day and do menial work that requires strength, women mostly do less tiring tasks such as cooking and picking, after all, they have to go home to take care of their families after a day's work.
The women in the photo are picking cotton in the field with a smile, only to see that the cotton in the field is growing very well, and the cotton picked by everyone is filled with several large baskets, and the girls can't help but smile happily when they look at this harvest scene.
The production team's meal takes the form of a big pot of rice, and everyone often comes to a place to sit around and eat together after a day's work.
The people in the photo are eating around a table, most of the food they eat is steamed buns and other foods, although the taste is relatively average, but most of the noodles are relatively full, and the wall behind them is also full of words to promote production, which is very characteristic of the times.
The life of the production team has become a unique memory of that generation, and although it has passed away, it still leaves a good memory for people's lives.
There we made precious friends, learned a lot of agricultural knowledge, and constantly enriched their skills, although full of hardships, but we always maintained an optimistic attitude, and this memory was also deeply imprinted in everyone's hearts.