Social background of China in the 1960s

Social background of China in the 1960s:

At that time, food stamps were used to exchange for food and daily necessities. Food stamps were first introduced in 1955, and it was not until 1993 that they were honorably "retired", during which time they have always played the role of a lever to regulate social supply and demand. As a kind of securities, it plays an extremely important role. In practice, a catty of local food stamps is equivalent to about 20 cents.

With food stamps to buy food, according to the occupation and age, each person monthly more than 20 pounds ~ 40 pounds or so. Food stamps are also required for eating in restaurants. Food stamps cannot be used everywhere, so if you go abroad on business, you have to go to the relevant department to exchange for "national food stamps". Cooking oil purchased with oil tickets, the highest ration is Guangzhou, 1.5 pounds per person per month. Many other foodstuffs, such as meat, are also purchased with tickets, except for vegetables, for which no tickets are needed and for which there are farmers' markets.

In addition, the fuel used for cooking was basically coal and firewood, which were also rationed and often insufficient, so office workers could save fuel by eating in the cafeteria of their units, and the Shanghainese invented the use of boiled water to soak rice for breakfast (there were no instant noodles at that time).

Since 1959 our country has faced unprecedented difficulties. Farmers ground corn cobs from peeled corn kernels on stone mills and used them to make nests to eat. Students ate chaff and gulped down wild vegetables, running to the school vegetable fields to pick up cabbage roots, young leaves and stems of eggplants and peppers to eat raw. They also often pick some poisonous plants to eat, and poisoning incidents have occurred repeatedly.

National social conditions improved compared with the pre-liberation period, but the overall level was low, education began to gradually popularize, and multiple births. The early socialist construction, the Great Leap Forward in production , and after three years of famine, the country's economic system is backward, financial difficulties, but also to carry out the expansion of investment is greater than the income from production, exacerbating the severity of the disaster! Because the country's financial resources invested in industry, unable to develop agriculture, production cuts intensified.

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Changes in China's social development after the 60's

After the grueling 60's and now in the early 21st Century. Housewives have begun to seek out health themes, paying extreme attention to fruits and vegetables: vegetables should be eaten without pollution, grains should be eaten in the current year, fish and shrimp should be eaten alive, and even peanut oil should be exclusively found in non-genetically modified (NGM). People in the market picky eyes, more and more fall on the fresh goods, rather than the price.

The rapid development of the economy is gradually changing people's eating habits, from the original satiety to nutritional, fresh and easy to change. In recent years, sorghum, corn and other miscellaneous grains are once again popular, it reflects the people of miscellaneous grains of trace elements in the importance of the traditional dietary re-recognition.

People's Daily Online - 30 Years of Changes in the Chinese People's Dining Table From Food Stamps to Nutritious Meals

Baidu Encyclopedia - The 1960s