You wouldn't know what hunger is if you haven't experienced the age of famine.

Abstract: if you haven't experienced the age of famine, you don't know the real hunger.

I couldn't feel the poverty and hunger in that era without experiencing hunger personally. As a post-80s generation, I couldn't understand and understand it. I only often listened to my grandfather tell the story of "the story of food stamps" over and over again. It tells how the older generation survived in the age of starvation and how to overcome disease and famine again and again. At that time, wild vegetables and fruits were eaten. Coarse grains and pickles all feel extremely delicious.

But at that time, people mainly went to the production team to work and share food. Men were the main labor force in the family. They could earn ten cents a day, while women and children could only earn six or seven points a day. At the end of the month, according to the amount of grain earned, the grain is only enough to eat for half a month, and it is impossible to eat two meals a day until the end of the month. In order not to go hungry, women and children carried baskets to dig wild vegetables, pick young elm leaves, locust flowers, and pick wild fruits. Now my mother also knows all kinds of wild vegetables, shepherd's purse, noodles, pigtail, amaranth, koji and so on. This dish is delicious and that dish tastes bitter and astringent.

Once a person is hungry, he can do anything, and it is understandable that he is extremely hungry and steals food. At that time, there were several children in the family, and there was little food to earn a job, and the children had to go hungry if they didn't have enough to eat. Grandpa said that when my aunt was very young, the house was very close to the sweet potato field of the production team, so my aunt went to the sweet potato field to pretend to be convenient, secretly pulled the sweet potatoes from the field into her clothes and took them home, cut them into sweet potato chips, dared not dry them in the yard during the day, secretly put them on the stove at night to dry, and finally ground them into sweet potato noodles to subsidize the family's rations. Thus it can be seen that supplies were very scarce at that time.

Grandpa said that in those days, people would also catch fish, pheasants and hares for tooth sacrifice. However, the number of fish, hares and pheasants is very small, and the number of people who do not have enough to eat is huge, so it is obviously unrealistic to solve the problem of food and clothing by catching fish and playing game. And catch fish and play game need professional tools, in the era of lack of food, clothing, lack of materials, who has fishing rods, nets and shotguns is obviously luxury luxury equipment. If we rely solely on bare hands and luck to catch fish and game to solve the problem of hunger, I don't think I can live to wait until the arrival of reform and opening up.

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