In the sixties and seventies of the last century, the quality of food in my family during the Spring Festival was the best of the year.
In the Chinese New Year's Eve, breakfast was the same as usual. Lunch has the flavor of the New Year, eat white flour steamed buns (usually eat sorghum noodles, cornmeal, sweet potato noodles and other coarse grain cakes and wowotou alternately, when it is difficult or difficult families lack food, there are bran vegetables to satisfy hunger), each person has a bowl of cabbage stewed vermicelli vegetarian vegetables (meaning quiet and smooth), and then there is a plate of fried lotus root box, fried sea salted fish, fried eggplant box to eat together, and a bowl of the best dish, according to the family population per person a piece of pork, pork slices are placed in a bowl, and more than half a bowl of broth is placed below, and the meat slices float on the top of the soup, although it is a thin meat slice, But it was the most fragrant and delicious dish of the Spring Festival. Dinner is dumplings and noodles, dumplings mean ingots, noodles mean line, together called money skewer rice, the quality is not as high-end as noon, but it is still a comprehensive food.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I eat vegetarian dumplings in advance until 12 o'clock in the morning, usually filled with cabbage vermicelli, which means that the coming year will be quiet and smooth. Lunch is pork and cabbage stuffed dumplings, dinner is eaten the day's breakfast, lunch leftovers, if not enough, still dumplings to eat, dinner dumplings stuffed meat and vegetarian have.
For breakfast on the second day of the Lunar New Year, resume the usual cornmeal porridge and coarse grains with cakes or pickles. At noon on the second day of the new year and at noon for about 10 days thereafter, relatives who want to come to pay New Year's greetings at home eat at noon similar to the lunch of the Chinese New Year's Eve, sometimes drink bulk liquor, and the male guests are only accompanied by the male host and adult men, and the hostess and minors are not allowed to eat at the guest table, but eat the usual meals around the pot table, and after the guests leave, the leftovers on the guest table (pork slices should be stored separately when there are many leftovers, and will be used again by the next guest) can be distributed to minors to enjoy.
Since the 80s of the last century, with the gradual implementation of the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, agriculture has been bumper year after year, farmers' incomes have increased year by year, and the quality of meals has changed.
Later, the peasants' appetite changed, and they couldn't eat pickles just by eating white flour steamed buns, and they didn't eat if they had rice without vegetables, so they changed pickles to stir-fried vegetables and stewed vegetables; Later, some of them did not eat without food, and gradually developed the habit of drinking alcohol once a day. In ordinary people's homes, three meals a day are white buns and stir-fried and stewed.
For more than 30 years, the diet level of ordinary farmers has reached the level of what they want to eat, the staple food has evolved from white flour steamed buns to flower rolls, steamed buns, rice, oil cakes and other varieties, and the non-staple food has developed from stir-fried vegetables and stews to chicken, duck, fish and geese, beef, sheep and donkey meat, mountain and sea delicacies, etc., especially in winter, you can still eat fresh vegetables, and you can eat more than 10 kinds of fruits all year round.
Before liberation, most peasant families did not even have warm water bottles, and they usually drank cold water when they were thirsty. After liberation, tea became an indispensable drink for hospitality. In the past, due to economic constraints, there were very few tea drinkers. Now, not only tea is used to entertain guests, but it has also become a common hobby of people, and the consumption of tea is increasing year by year. There are many tea estates in the county and town. It is not uncommon for people to quench their thirst with bottled or canned commercial beverages.
In recent years, a villager meeting was held in Nieji Village, and one person from each family participated. The village director asked everyone to raise their hands if they felt that eating and drinking was as good as the Chinese New Year before the reform and opening up, but they didn't expect that only about two-thirds of the people raised their hands. The village chief asked a few villagers who did not raise their hands to speak, and a villager in his 30s said that I have not changed much from eating and drinking since I was a child, and I have not experienced how to eat and drink before the reform and opening up, so I can't raise my hand indiscriminately; A farmer in his 70s said: I feel that the quality of food and drink on weekdays is much higher than that eaten during the Chinese New Year before the reform and opening up. Many of the people present echoed the words, and they were right. The village chief said that those under the age of 45 should raise their hands, and he checked about one-third.
It seems that happiness is related to age, to experience.
Column introductionAgriculture occupies a very important position in China's socialist construction, and on January 25, 1956, the first agricultural medium and long-term development plan of New China was formulated and adopted - "National Agricultural Development Program (Draft) from 1956 to 1967". In order to let netizens on both sides of the strait better understand the party's attention to solving the "three rural" problem through the past hundred years, brilliant achievements, and accumulated valuable experience, "Jingcai Taiwan" ** by Lu Liao Gaoyang team to write the "Centennial Great Cause Spectrum "Three Rural" Hua Chapter" series of 100 articles, from the words between the lines of the old and new society peasant life, feel the changes in agriculture, rural areas and peasant life in the past hundred years.
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