Three ploughs and one surplus are the induction and abbreviation of the sentence "three years of ploughing and one year of eating" in the Book of Rites. This means that after three years of farming, you must accumulate food that you can eat for one year.

"Plowing three crops and harvesting one crop" reflects people's great attention to reserves in early agricultural society, is an experience summary of preventing famine and chaos at low productivity level, is an important principle of living within our means and seeking perennial financial balance in the old society, and is regarded as a classic of China's ancient financial management thought.

During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's period, the people's governments in the border areas under the leadership of China's * * * Production Party called on the people to actively produce and practice strict economy in the mass production movement, so that "the tiller has one year, and there is more than April". This slogan has played a positive role in encouraging people to be self-reliant, overcome difficulties, persist in the war of resistance and support the revolution. It is the revolutionary people's inheritance and development of ancient excellent financial management ideas.

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War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression background:

1, Japan's external expansion

Japan's war of aggression against China in 1930s and 1940s was the largest of Japan's wars of foreign expansion and aggression. This war was the result of many factors, such as Japan's foreign expansion policy, the disparity between Japan and China, and the appeasement policy of the international community.

2. Japan's economic crisis

1929, 10 In June, the economic crisis that began in the United States swept the whole capitalist world. Japan suffered heavy losses in the crisis, the national economy suffered losses, gold continued to flow out, industry shrank, and agriculture was in a hurry. In order to get rid of the deep troubles caused by the world economic crisis and divert domestic attention, the Japanese empire embarked on the road of aggression, and Japanese militarists stepped up their established policy of aggression against China.

3. International environment

After the September 18th Incident, profound and complicated changes have taken place in the international situation, especially the appeasement policy adopted by major countries towards Japan's invasion of China, which objectively condoned the development and interconnection of world fascist forces.

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