It's a fact that I didn't have enough food and clothes when I was in the production team, and I experienced it from those days. It is a fact that there is not enough food and clothing, I know too well the suffering of farmers, and it is true that I can't eat enough, this is a fact, I am a party, yes, the vast majority of places in that era are indeed not full of food and clothing, who cares about this fact!! In those years, 85% did not have enough to eat. Do not forget that we came out of a difficult time when we were invaded by the Japanese and fought a civil war on our own. The construction of socialism is also bent on building the country into a prosperous and powerful country. Therefore, it is an inevitable process that the common people do not have enough to eat. There is no need to hide it. Haven't we been moving from poverty to strength? Face history. Acknowledging history. It's normal.
I came from that era, and it was common to not have enough to eat, and it was not good to wear clothes, but in good conscience, it was a hundred times stronger than before liberation, and it must have been a difficult time. Before the founding of New China, after several decades of internal and external wars, the country was in a state of poverty and whiteness, and the difficulties can be imagined, and in the decades after the founding of New China, the state vigorously invested in the development of infrastructure in all aspects, and the population doubled from the original 400 million people in a short period of 20 or 30 years, and it was inevitable that life would be relatively difficult. I always feel that it is wrong to be glad to be born today, rather than to be born in the era before today.
Only after those who passed through that era did they know the real situation, and I was a person who came from that era, and I really couldn't eat enough. At that time, the production team had to pay the public grain first, and those who stayed were what they could eat. I often can't eat enough food, and I can't eat enough. I live in the countryside, and in the 6~70s, the production team produced 365 catties of gross grain per person a year. The skin was only 300 catties, and it was cut off in April of the following year. It is commonly known as green and yellow, borrowing grain everywhere, digging wild vegetables, also known as melon and vegetable generation.
In the 70s, there were still many scenes of going out to ask for food when there was a shortage of flowers. Before the package was delivered to the household, my family often ran out of food, did not have enough to eat, there were many children in the family, my parents earned work, and the food was not enough to eat for half a year, so I relied on relatives to help. The only good thing in that era was that there were basically no fat people, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc., you know.
There is a word called green and yellow, which refers to the fact that from April to June every year in the south, the old grain is eaten, the new rice is not produced, there is no food, and there is no melon and vegetable grains, and there is no begging for food. I was born in 1967, I begged for food at the age of 4, herded cattle at the age of 5 to earn work, and my dream as a child was to eat enough, and my original dream was to invent a rice machine, and at the touch of a switch, rice would come out of the tube. The memory of not having enough to eat is too deep, and to this day, I don't waste a single grain, otherwise, I'm sorry for the suffering, the history of hungry food!
You can't experience it at all, you only see the good side, when there are many people in the countryside who have no food, go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, and starve to death in the mountains, abound. The city is expected to be better. At that time, I was farming at home, and I usually used pickles, and I could only eat some meat and dumplings during the Chinese New Year. Remember so. Talking about the era of no food to listen to the 4O after 5O talk, to tell it all, the people after 6O may not believe it, let alone talk about the smaller people, it is really miserable, hungry belly is just a trivial matter not worth mentioning....
I have personally experienced the life of that era. It is neither as bad as the social elite says, nor as beautiful as the author says. It is true that life was not as prosperous as it is now, but the social order and social atmosphere at that time were better than now. People in the village built houses and repaired houses, and the whole village volunteered to help. Since the reform and opening up, the great development of industry has brought the rural areas to the households, and the peasants have been able to cultivate freely. More work, more rewards. Growing a little grain a year is more than the production team. How can people born in the seventies know about the miserable life of rural peasants in the fifties and sixties? I don't know the warmth of spring without going through a cold winter.