What was the quality of life of rural people in the sixties? The sixties were a special era of development, which could be described as very complex in terms of rural life. Around the 60s, many places experienced a period of natural disasters, people are accustomed to call it three years of natural disasters, in that three years, rural life can be said to be the darkest, that period of time for rural people life is impossible to talk about, as long as they can survive is very lucky. After three years of natural disasters, rural life has begun to improve step by step, and one of the most convincing things is the number of births. In 1963, more than 29 million babies were born, which is unique in the history of several thousand years. Since then, the whole country has entered a period of preparation for war and famine, and although the amount of grain produced in the rural areas has increased by a large margin compared with before, the number of people has also increased.
Sweet potato. From 1963 to around 1980, the country's population increased by the largest amount, remaining above 20 million in most years, and the vast majority of the new population was in the rural areas. For rural areas where the grain yield per mu is not high, it is normal for the standard of living to be limited to a certain extent, so it is inevitable that the standard of living in the rural areas is relatively low.
In the rural areas, the people's commune is the basic organizational form, and the production team is used as a unit for accounting and distribution, and the basic principle is that every person must be taken care of, that is to say, the basic food ration must be guaranteed. The proportion of labor food received by labor participation in labor is relatively low. At that time, the city was actually under the premise of ensuring the basic first, and gave a certain tilt to laborers with greater physical labor intensity, and allocated a little more ration index, which everyone called "work grain".
It can be said that the rural people have used their land to the extreme, and those who can plant two crops a year are absolutely not allowed to plant one season, and no cultivated land will be abandoned, otherwise the cadres of the commune, brigade, and squad will not be able to bear it at all.
Prepare for war and prepare for famine. When it comes to the three meals a day for rural people, many farmers actually eat two meals a day for the purpose of saving food. The particularly loud slogan is "** and waste, it is a great crime", and the waste mentioned in the slogan actually refers to food in a large sense. The output of coarse grains is relatively low, and at the same time, the task of preparing for war and famine in the countries of fine grains (specifically wheat in our north is relatively large), so the per capita quantity of fine grains in rural areas is relatively small, and daily life can only be dominated by coarse grains (mainly corn). When harvesting wheat, every household can share a little wheat, and then you can eat a little more fine grain.
Like in the lives of our rural people, corn and sweet potatoes are the most important coarse grains, and a lot of effort has been put into the processing and production of coarse grains. The cornmeal is pressed into dumplings, and the toughness of the cornmeal dumplings is poor, so the hardness is increased, because the hardness is large, the feel is relatively hard and smooth, and it looks the same as the steel wire, so everyone gives it a particularly nice name, called steel wire noodles. Then it is to use cornmeal to stir the dough, no matter how you do it, the dough is relatively soft, and you are very hungry after eating, everyone calls the dough coaxing uphill, which means that you are just full, and you will feel hungry again after walking a little uphill.
Stir the dough. In terms of vegetables, there are no out-of-season vegetables in greenhouses, nor vegetables transported from other places over long distances, only their own local seasonal vegetables. When it comes to the lunar calendar after winter and the Spring Festival.
In February and March, there are almost no fresh vegetables, and everyone puts them.
February and March are called green and yellow. Chinese cabbage, red and white radish, etc. are the main ones, in order to save, the red and white radish is pickled with salt, on the one hand, the preservation time can be longer, on the other hand, because it is too salty, so the food is relatively less, so that there are more days to eat.
In terms of meat, poultry and eggs, it can be said that the eggs that a family can eat in a year can be counted, and it is not surprising that they eat more meat three or twice, and that less is a full stop. Even if you have chickens, you are reluctant to eat eggs, let alone kill chickens and eat meat, and always want to turn them into money.
With the construction of agricultural infrastructure, grain production has gradually shaken off the passive situation of relying on the weather for food, the output has been continuously increasing, and the rural life has also embarked on the road of improvement.