Sixty-year-old only child: The system taught me how to become rich

Buy gold jewelry: 8 yuan per gram,

Cloth used for making clothes, etc.: one dollar per foot;

Buy fruit: one yuan, four pounds, candy: one yuan, three pounds.

Rice: one yuan six to seven catties, vegetables: one yuan fifty catties;

Rent for two bedrooms, one bathroom and one kitchen: One yuan can pay about 20 days’ rent.

Tuition fee: one yuan for first grade students, one yuan and eighty cents for fifth grade students.

To marry a wife, you can borrow money from neighbors, relatives and friends, ranging from one yuan to two yuan, and you can almost pay it back in the coming year.

Families without wives use it to buy meat in daily life and as pocket money during holidays and festivals, and most of them have a slight surplus.

: In Zhengzhou in 1961, refined flour cost cents per catty, standard rice flour cost cents, polished rice cost cents per catty, millet cost cents per catty, peanut oil cost cents per catty, and pork cost cents per catty. . And in

In Tianjin in 1961, the price of beef was 1965 cents per catty and the price of mutton was 1964 cents per catty. In Zhengzhou in , cucumbers cost about cents per catty, and green onions cost about and a half cents per catty. In Tianjin in , crucian carp cost cents per catty, white rice and shrimp cost cents per catty, and sea crabs cost cents per catty. These prices were a microcosm of national prices at that time.

At this price level, if you walk around with a dollar in your hand, you can theoretically buy something generously. The scene of "cheap things in the 1960s" also makes many young friends look forward to it. But the question is, was this dollar really so easy to get back then?

Similarly, when talking about the purchasing power of a dollar, you also have to look at the salary at that time.

According to the "China Statistical Yearbook", in 1960, the average annual salary of employees in China's nationally owned units was only 528 yuan, which was only 44 yuan per month. This was still considered a "high-income" family at that time. Statistics from the Zhejiang Provincial Archives show that in the 1960s, the salary of Linping Stone Factory employees was 29 yuan, and the monthly wages of workers at Xianlin Steel Factory were mostly 15 to 30 yuan. Income in rural areas is even lower. In 1959, the average annual income of rural residents in China was only 69 yuan, which increased to about 90 yuan in the following years.

At this level of income, even when compared with the seemingly "cheap" prices, it is really not affluent. Especially in rural areas at that time, one dollar could be said to be a lot of money.

And, even in the sixties, not all items were

"Cheap". Take eggs, for example. The price of eggs in Zhengzhou in 1961 was one yuan and pounds. Bibi is indeed "cheap" today, but at that time, Li Zhenxi and his brother could not buy a pound of eggs with a week's worth of food. At that time, eggs were as precious as eggs, just like the old man driving a car in the city sighed: "I have forgotten whether eggs are round or square" in his famous work "Annual Rings", which reflects the urban life in Northeast China in the s.

At that time, even for families with better conditions, it was considered an absolutely happy moment to eat an egg.

The price of industrial products was even more expensive at that time, such as typical bicycles. picture

The price of famous brand bicycles such as "Forever", "Phoenix" and "Feige" has remained above 120 yuan for a long time, which is equivalent to three months' salary of "state-owned enterprise employees". If there are a few bicycles (mostly borrowed) to pick up the bride at the wedding, it will feel like riding in a luxury car. In the movie "Sunny Days", the scene of young men riding bicycles in the city of Beijing in the 1960s is basically the "professional" of wealthy people.

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