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

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Throughout the 1960s, "food stamps", "meat stamps" and "oil stamps" were required to buy food, meat and oil. There were also "industrial stamps" to buy towels, blankets, batteries, iron pots, kettles, umbrellas and other daily necessities. "voucher". In the words of some "Old Beijingers" who experienced life in the 1960s, "It wasn't that there was no money, but that you couldn't buy anything with money."

In Beijing at that time, a bowl of rice in the early 1960s cost 40 taels of food stamps and 8 cents. A sesame seed cake also costs two taels of food stamps and four cents. As for buying expensive snacks and biscuits? No amount of money can buy food stamps. Looking at the "cheap" things, I really can't eat them without food stamps.

So for Chinese families at that time, money was important, but food stamps were the lifeblood. Also based on the statistics of writer Chen Yu,

In 1961, the "black market price" of a pound of grain stamps in Beijing was as high as 3 yuan. The black market price of a pound of national food stamps has reached 4 yuan. This is still priceless. One yuan, which seems to "can buy a lot of things", is obviously much inferior to "a pound of food stamps". A small food stamp is related to the food and clothing of the whole family.

The topic of "what can you buy with one dollar" in the 1960s not only affects this memory of life, but also allows us to see the difficult process in the development history of New China. Instead of envying that not so far away more than half a century ago. The seemingly "cheap" prices are worse than cherishing the quiet and peaceful time in front of you.

At that time, the monthly income of ordinary workers was only 20 to 30 yuan a month, and very few exceeded 40 yuan. There were not many dual-income families around me, and there were more single-income families. Each family had more children. The elder sister and brother have three children. They are considered a family with a small number of children. The neighbor's children are ranked tenth, with several dead and half, five, alive. At that time, our classmates all called each other by nicknames, which was the surname plus the family ranking, such as: Zheng Wu, Chen Liu, Li Ba, etc. These classmates are now approaching their seventies, but when we get together, Everyone still calls me by my nickname, which feels very cordial.

In the early 1960s, there was a three-year natural disaster. Everyone's life was very difficult, especially in rural areas. I won't go into details about the tragic situation. Just ask the living old people to understand everything. I remember that there was a kind of cake called "high-end cake" sold at that time, which did not require food stamps and cost one yuan each. Why was it called "high-end"? Because there is a little bit of pork in the middle of the cake, about the size of a finger. The pancakes were not much bigger than the current mooncakes, so our kids could probably eat two or three. However, high-end cakes are not easy to sell. In fact, they are sold at high prices in the name of high-end. Thinking about their income, how many people can afford them?

When I was in the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school, my class set up a "small bank" to encourage students to save money. I remember that the richest classmate only had more than one yuan. I had lunch in a restaurant for a while. I had rice and jelly for a dime.

In 1965, after I entered middle school, the situation improved greatly. The city where I live has a price of 0.142 yuan per pound per meter, the price of rice noodles seems to be 0.17 yuan, bone-in pork 0.72 yuan, and vegetable oil 0.70 yuan, all of which are supplied by ticket.