In 1958, the members of the commune in Huailai, Hebei Province, were eating "big pot rice" in the 50s of the last century, which was the first "decade" of New China. What level did the people of that era reach in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation?
Due to the scarcity of materials, in the 50s, you had to buy things with tickets: you need a food ticket to buy rice, a meat ticket to buy pork, a cloth ticket to make clothes, and a bicycle ticket to buy a bicycle......
Grain stamps and cloth stamps are distributed according to the head. Ordinary people can get 30 catties of food stamps a month; Heavy manual laborers can get 37 catties of food stamps. If you don't have a ticket, you can't buy food with money.
In 1951, in Dingxian County, Hebei Province, peasants studied seriously and eradicated illiteracy in the 50s, bicycles, watches, sewing machines, and radios were high-end commodities, which only people in the city could afford to buy, and people in the countryside did not have the conditions to buy them until the 80s.
Below, let's take a look, what is the standard of living in the real 50s?
In 1954, in Tangshan, Hebei Province, a little girl finally put on new clothes for the first time during the Spring Festival.
In China in the 50s, cars were still extremely rare, and the Dongfeng Bridge gas station in Baoding was the first in the country.
In 1954, farmers in Jin County, Hebei Province, were celebrating the Spring Festival with various folk activities.
In the 50s, department stores already appeared, and the first one was the Qiaoxi Department Store in Shijiazhuang.
In 1959, workers were toiling at a steel mill in Tangshan.
In the 50s, Huairou County did not belong to Beijing, but to Hebei Province. At night at Huairou Reservoir, the lights are bright.
In the 50s, there were no mobile phones, and ** were not yet popular, ** in the ** exchange station at that time.
In 1951, farmers in Dingxian County, Hebei Province, actively learned literacy and participated in literacy activities.
In 1955, in Baoding, Hebei Province, a signing ceremony for a public-private partnership was underway.
In 1951, a young farmer in Dingzhou, Hebei Province, got a newspaper from the postman and studied it seriously.
The above is the photographer's lens, the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the Chinese people in the 50s. Now, 70 years later, the appearance of poverty and whiteness has undergone earth-shaking changes: skyscrapers everywhere, private cars, high-end computers, and smartphones have long entered ordinary people's homes, and a prosperous scene.