The food coupons, the coupons
In the free time, we visit the old market and see a number of collectors exchanging food stamps, etc. The instruments are of various sizes, national and provincial, municipal and autonomous, and are of many kinds and are the symbol of memory in the development of our society and have been printed in the minds of generations of nations。
In the 1980s, when i went to primary school and lower secondary school, it was not rare to buy a daily ticket. Food coupons serve as “passes” to feed, and a few luxurious pieces of paper become the most important part of the daily lives of the population。
The most impressive was the late 1970s, when the family had a large population and a small number of houses, requiring the conversion of two old houses into four new ones. The walls can be made of earth, muddled, but stoned to the ground. The family did not have the money, so it had to take out the family's ticket for a year, to say the least, in return for a few carts of stone. This year, seven members of our family did not add an inch of cloth, and the new year passed with the washing of old clothes. My father, a retired and disabled soldier, was able to collect monthly allowances from the countryside, had stable economic resources, had family conditions in our village, had been so difficult that he could imagine living at that time。
In the early 1980s, when the older brothers reached the age of the target, the most fashionable dress of the young people in the countryside in winter was that of wearing a big black coat with a big fluffy bow, usually with no sleeves and no buttons, like a mountain king. In order to get a blind date to the boss, the father presented the only remaining ticket. Big brother is happy to have not only a handsome dress, but also a successful blind date. I've been talking for days, because the new clothes i promised to buy at the beginning of the year are gone. The condo was borrowed several times by the neighbours and witnessed several marriages。
Before high school, there was little idea of food stamps, but it was a walk-through, so young people didn't have to worry about food and drink at home. I had to live in high school in the early 1990s, and i had to use food tickets to buy buns at school. If there is no food ticket to trade for, it would not have been a very good price at the market, so there is a sense of superiority to go directly to the buns with food stamps and money. Because he's a coal mine worker, he sends regular food stamps, saves me some food stamps every month, and it's a national food ticket, which is enviable。
It seems as if, without realizing it, the store is rich, it does not need a ticket to buy it, and instruments such as food coupons are gradually out of circulation, becoming a symbol of the times, a memory. Some collectors saw their potential collection value and made special collections。
From being indispensable in the daily lives of ordinary people, to being treated as a collection by entertaining collectors, the change in the status of food ticketing reflects the fact that chinese people have solved the food and clothing problems of billions of people on their own, reflecting the richness of material life and social progress, the development of the country and the improvement of the people's standard of living, the outcome of reforms and openings, and the superiority of china's special socialist path。
