Reading guide: Have you experienced the scene 40 years ago? I cry when I look at it, and I feel sad when I look at it, why are the older generation of farmers still working when they are old?
I saw a video today, a 30-second short video, looking back on the scene 40 years ago, as a person born in the 70s, I suddenly felt sad and crying, and it seemed that I had returned to that era, that tragic and hard era, but full of sadness and helplessness!
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This short video only produced two parts: one is the scene of paying the public grain at that time, and the other is the scene of the medical workers digging the reservoir at that time! Finally, let's talk about why the old people still need to work hard for the elderly? And what about hard work?
These two scenes as people born before the 90s basically have the experience of that era, at that time it was really very hard, think about it now without worrying about food and drink, I feel very happy! This is why the older generation of farmers, that is, farmers in their seventies and eighties, although they only have a pension of more than 100 yuan, ask them how happy? They basically say in unison that they are happy because they have caught up with this era!
First of all, let's recall the matter of paying public grain, many people don't understand!
I remember that in those days, every household had to pay public grain, and the consciousness of the peasants was very high, and they should choose the best grain to pay the public grain, and insert grain or leave it for themselves to eat, which was the consciousness of that generation of peasants.
At that time, the payment of public grain was very active, and each village only had one or two days to pay public grain. There are six people in our family, and all four of us brothers are relatively young, all born in the early 70s, so we can't work. The father is the only one in the family who does farm work and farms, and the mother is not in good health and cannot work.
Six people pay public grain, generally in the nearly 200 catties, that is, a person needs to pay more than 30 catties of public grain, the day of the public grain payment must be paid on the same day after the village notice, otherwise the second day will be fined, according to 30% more public grain.
Due to the distance from the commune's grain management office at that time, there was a high mountain to cross on the way to the town, which was pushed by a wheelbarrow at that time. Usually before dawn, my father pushed the cart and my brother pulled the cart to the commune's grain management office.
It is not necessary to call it when it arrives to hand over the public grain, but it still requires the staff of the grain management institute to inspect the quality, and a part of the sand and gravel must be deducted, generally two catties of sand and gravel per 100 catties. Therefore, you must bring an extra part of the public rations, otherwise it will not be enough.
After arriving at the grain management office, you need to wait in line there, if there is a relationship, you can pay it in advance, if there is no relationship, you need to wait in line. I remember that my father and my brother went to pay the public food together, and they usually went before dawn in the morning, and they didn't return home until the moon was high in the evening.
I remember that my grandmother passed away that year, and it happened that day that our village handed over the public grain. After all, the old man passed away and needed to be busy with this matter, so he handed over the public food for one day late, and on the second day, the village cadres directly pulled away all the food at home. I didn't eat dumplings for the Chinese New Year that year, and I didn't eat a full meal or a good meal for a year!
Let's talk a little more about the issue of peasants volunteering at that time. This is a free volunteer job.
In the first few years, volunteers generally had to go to other places, some to dig reservoirs, some to build canals, and some to cultivate wasteland. Volunteer work is generally after the autumn to clean up the crops, and then go to the field, need to go out to work for 1~2 months, at that time it was called "out of service".
In the late 80s and 90s, at that time, the volunteer work was in the village, and it was generally divided into three parties to dig strips, that is, to prepare the land. Because the winter was a volunteer work in that era, the weather was unusually cold, and the winter of that year and that era was also very cold, and the land was directly frozen.
Volunteering is not based on the number of days, but according to the number of mountains and wastelands and the length of strips dug by each person. I remember that year our village divided the mountain wasteland of my family of six, the weather was unusually cold in winter, and when I used an iron pickaxe to plan, there was a small hole the size of an egg.
At that time, my father did not complete the task of digging the strips on time, and the secretary of the earth beat my father fiercely, and then slapped my father twice. I stood on the side and looked at it in tears, but I was helpless, I was too young to dig up the strips. So at that time, I always thought that I would grow up, work more for my father, and volunteer for my father.
Looking back now, the tears still can't stop flowing, especially now that my father is gone, maybe there is no heartache in heaven, or maybe there is no fatigue in heaven. But it's very sad to look back, and I always don't understand why that era was like that?
Thinking back to the past two shots, which are the two shots proposed in the video, this is something that people over 50 years old have experienced, but what complaints do they have? No complaints!
Now that the society is better, the country is richer, people's living standards have also improved, basically they have lived a well-off society, and the problem of food and clothing has been solved, but why are there still many old people working hard?
First of all, although the standard of living has risen and incomes have increased, prices have also risen, and the peasants do not have the most basic livelihood guarantees.
In the past, the way of agriculture and labor has promoted the rapid development of the country, which is why there is now a high-tech country and a comprehensive national economy.
But for the peasants, they only have a pension of more than 100 yuan per month, and of course, they don't have to pay public grain or agricultural taxes for farming, which seems to be the greatest care for farmers.
In terms of bricks, in fact, agriculture, industry and service are the three major industries of society. There should be no distinction between high and low, and peasants are also part of social workers, and they should also enjoy pension benefits.
In real life, the mainland's social pension security system was established in 1992, when non-agricultural personnel did not pay social pensions, but were regarded as paying pension insurance, so they enjoyed high pension benefits.
Some people may say that they are engaged in social production, participate in the labor of state-owned enterprises, produce social surplus value, and the state pays this part of the pension.
However, it was the peasants who really participated in the labor in the society at that time, which gave the country the most basic economic conditions for development, and it was also supported by the peasants with agriculture. Peasants pay endowment insurance for voluntary work, and there are also peasants who pay three mentions and five uniforms to pay agricultural taxes and raise funds. That's more than the annual taxes paid by those workers at the time, or the value created.
From this point of view, for those old farmers, they should enjoy the same pension treatment, at least raise the current standard of rural pension of more than 100 yuan to 600 yuan, which can basically solve the basic pension problem of farmers. Do you support this?
Secondly, the medical problems of the old farmers have not been completely solved.
Since ancient times, the medical problem of farmers has been a big problem. Especially for farmers, there is no precondition at all, and for minor illnesses that can only be delayed into major diseases, they can only wait for death.
Perhaps for more than 20 years, the mainland has implemented a new rural cooperative medical security system, allowing farmers to pay less money and then receive medical insurance, which can reimburse part of their medical expenses.
But in real life, farmers still have to pay money before treatment, and if they don't pay money, they can't cure the disease at all, and the hospital will not treat the disease. What's more, the medical expenses of hospitals are still high, and the cost of medicines is also high, and the money saved by farmers for a few years is not enough to spend on a serious illness.
So farmers don't make money, okay? To prevent the cost of medicine and medical treatment, even if it is a headache and a cold, farmers need to spend money on treatment, so they have to live until they are old.
Third, some people say that raising children to prevent old age, how many people can afford it?
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that raising children to prevent old age, and now men and women are equal, and daughters can also support the elderly, but how many children are really supported in real life?
There is no filial son in front of the bed of a long illness! After getting old, there will be more geriatric diseases, especially for the bedridden elderly, children can be taken care of for a year or two, but it is a little annoying to take care of them for a long time!
More importantly, the pressure on housing, education, and life is too great, especially the basic living expenses such as high mortgages, car loans, and students' education expenses all need money. Young people don't earn money, how can they have so many expenses, so they can't take care of their parents' pension!
Finally, let's analyze the current living situation from the perspective of an old peasant!
Today's old farmers feel that they are very happy, even if they are still working when they are old, but they also recognize the happy life now.
Because they would never have dreamed that they would be able to eat and dress warmly, be able to make money if they can work, and have a guarantee when they are old.
So now ask the old peasants, are you happy? They basically said in unison: they are very happy, they never imagined that there would be a good day today!
For example, now farmers have unprecedented rural pensions and rural medical insurance, which is a good thing that has not been done since ancient times!
What is more important is that the peasants not only do not pay public grain or agricultural taxes when farming, but on the contrary, they are also given grain subsidies for farming, fuel subsidies for farming, and subsidies for agricultural machinery. This can be said to be an epoch-making reform!
Throughout history, the current era can be said to be the prosperous era, which has not been seen since ancient times, and it is also the happiest era for farmers!
No matter how history develops, we must not forget the older generation of farmers, and we must not lose the older generation of farmers, who have exchanged their youth for today's prosperous China! Are you right?
Sometimes when I think back to my childhood, there seems to be no distinction between rich and poor, and people are not divided into three, six, nine, etc., but they are indeed very poor, and they are indeed very helpless and helpless. Because there was a lack of food and clothing at that time, the winter at that time was particularly cold, and the food was particularly scarce at that time, I knew the taste of starvation and cold at that time!
Today's happy life is not easy to come by, we should be grateful to the older generation of farmers, so we should think about their old life, should be able to let them have medical care, old support, old happy, this is worthy of the old generation of farmers! Are you right?