At that time, there was a common evaluation criterion, that is, whether it was enough for "three hundred and six", that is, whether even potatoes and radishes could add up to 360 catties of grain, and a life of less than one catty of grain a day would definitely make people suffer from hunger.
We often have to rely on chaff and wild herb leaves to feed our hunger. It may be hard for young people to believe that the people of that era really did not have enough to eat, especially the peasants. The land is collectively owned, and the peasants have to work in the production team, and the work is divided according to the day, and the rations can only be distributed at the end of the year.
If the ration is not enough to eat, there is no right to share the money. The grain per mu is less than 200 catties. While the old man is still there, you can go and visit. For 57-year-olds, especially farmers, there must be a deep understanding of not having enough to eat.
The workers had wages and food stamps, and the peasants had land, but they did not own it themselves. It wasn't until the package was delivered to the household that people really lived a well-fed life.
You didn't go hungry just because your living conditions were better. When I was a child, due to the economic constraints of my family, your diet was mainly simple, such as rice cereal steamed buns + pickles, wotou, etc., and it was even more rare to be able to eat meat.
After your sister graduated and worked, the family situation gradually improved. At that time, almost all people living in rural areas experienced the pain of hunger, and some even fell ill or even died from it.
It may be a surprise for you to eat meat and vegetables with oil splashes, but in difficult times, people who are soldiers can find it annoying.
In the past, rural living conditions were difficult, food and clothing were not sufficient, and only non-agricultural and urban residents lived slightly better. There are often in the family.
Seven or eight children, it is difficult for farmers to feed them, and they also need to be educated.
Only those who have personally experienced that era can truly understand the hardships of that era. At that time, food shortages were a widespread problem. After the wheat is harvested, each person can only receive 50 60 catties of wheat, and in order to maintain his life for three months, each person can only receive seven taels of rations per day.
If the harvest is not good, the state will provide relief grain. Some production teams have relatively good harvests, and each person can get about 80 90 catties of wheat per year. However, it is difficult for those who did not live through that era to understand this difficulty.
This was due to the low grain production at that time, mainly due to the shortage of chemical fertilizers and the problem of wheat and corn seeds. Now, we have plenty of food and drink, and many people forget about that.
The extensive use of chemical fertilizers, the improvement of wheat and maize seeds, and the progress of agriculture and water conservancy construction are all important factors in increasing food production. In short, in those days, the yield of the land was very low, and it was often said that the land did not grow food.
The sixties are better than the fifties, the seventies are better than the sixties, and the late seventies are better than the early seventies. With the progress of large-scale farmland capital construction, water conservancy projects have been built and land has been leveled, and batches of water conservancy projects have gradually come into play, the amount of irrigated land has increased substantially, and batches of high-yield and stable-yield fields have been completed, and industrialization has developed.
At that time, the peasants did not have the excellent seeds they have today, lacked chemical fertilizers, and the grain output was not high. However, in the mid-to-late 70s, food continued to grow year after year, and people's living standards improved and increased.
It can be said responsibly that until the field is divided into households, people can say that there is no need to worry about the food problem, the staple food of that era is not enough to eat, especially rice, each meal must be mixed with sweet potatoes and other miscellaneous grains to barely eat, not to mention what meat, no wonder people often say that they can eat two catties of noodles before, because the living conditions in that era were difficult and the nutritional intake was insufficient.
In the past, China's national construction needed to tighten the belt, agriculture supported industry, coupled with the rapid population growth, the non-staple food was insufficient, and the consumption of grain was large, and the phenomenon of food shortage appeared.
With the development of industry, our exports have increased, and with foreign exchange, in order to balance imports and exports, it is necessary to purchase foreign grain (the purchase of public grain has also decreased). The city implements rationing**, including rice, flour, oil, meat, cloth, etc.
Although there was a food deficit in some areas in the early days, the situation has improved over time. In the past, pigs, chickens and fish needed to be raised for a year before they could be slaughtered, but now through scientific and technological breeding, they can be slaughtered in 4 months.
Population growth has also slowed down, non-staple foods** have kept up, and food consumption has decreased, so everyone is able to eat well. When I was a child, I didn't have enough food every year, so I could only eat dried sweet potatoes and wild vegetables, and then the cultivated land was contracted to the households, the fertilizer was popularized, the grain output was increased, and the grain was sufficient, until the agricultural tax was abolished in 2002, and the farmers no longer needed to pay public grain, and their living standards were really improved.
Although the past years are bitter, we should cherish the present and work hard to make life better. There was a time when ordinary people couldn't eat enough, and this is an indelible historical fact.
Now, however, some people are questioning or even denying this fact online, and we don't know if they really didn't go through that period or if they deliberately distorted the truth.
The question of whether there is enough to eat or not always bothers some people, and as for how many people there are, it needs to be measured by objective history and objective people. The past is in the past, and society is moving forward now compared to the period before liberation.