When I was a child, I picked up the ears of rice and took them home by myself.
From an early age, we collectively referred to what the collective or others threw away after harvesting as "wild things". Whether this happened in the collective or in ancient times has been impossible to verify.
On the occasion of the big group, in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the production team dug up the peanuts in the field and harvested them cleanly. The peanuts in the field are called "wild flowers". Children and the elderly use rakes (four-toothed rakes) to dig peanuts falling in the field and look for peanuts falling on peanut vines. Fortunately, they can pick a small basket of wild flowers in one afternoon.
In addition, wild sweet potatoes, weeds and wild tea seeds can be picked in September, October and October of the lunar calendar, and wild roe can be picked in December.
This is to pick up the ears of rice that fell in the rice field after the harvest of the production team.
After the early rice is harvested, no one usually collects it. This is a double catch. Everyone has a job, everyone has to work, and there are no idle people in the house. That's called fighting for time, speed, early rice and late rice.
The ears of Chihe (one-season rice) have been picked. Chihe is usually harvested around the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15. If glutinous rice is harvested the most, it is after the Mid-Autumn Festival. At this time, it has entered the slack season, and our rural children usually go to school in the morning and go home to herd cattle in the afternoon. So, in the afternoon, take a small basket or cloth bag to pick up the dry straw rope. This kind of straw rope is usually on the handle of straw, where the grain has been removed by thresher, and on the grass core (ratooning rice) eaten by cattle, some are uncut and scattered on the ground. Fortunately, you can pick up one or two liters in one afternoon. Picking up the grain rope did not interfere, and there was no beating like Mr. Mo Yan said.
A few days after picking, there will be a large pile, which will be dried on a bamboo plate, pounded and threshed with a rice pestle (hammer for laundry) and cleaned with a windmill. The pot in the stone mortar is white glutinous rice. Pick fresh lentils from the fence, some lard, and glutinous rice with new rice, which is a fragrance. You can eat three bowls.
Some people also picked up the grain rope to prepare the second-season late rice, mainly to supplement the lack of rations. In the collective, the supplementary rations are insufficient, mainly sweet potatoes. What impressed me most was that the sweet potato was cut into thin strips. We call it "Sousou Sweet Potato", which is steamed with rice. This kind of rice is very sweet and has a unique taste.
In the blink of an eye, the victim was like this. The past time is gone forever. Although the past was bitter and tiring, the pressure of life was less. It is not as unbearable as some writers write, so it is full of hatred.
I am an experienced person in that era. 1969, I am 6 years old, and I can pick up straw ropes. We all picked it up and took it home, and we never encountered such things as hitting people and swearing.
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I picked up the ears of wheat! I was twelve or thirteen.
Organized by the production team, my sister-in-law leads a group of children of the same age. After the harvested wheat was loaded into the car and taken away, she followed the car and began to pick it up. It took about three hours, and she took half a day to take care of lunch and dinner.
To tell the truth, the main purpose of participating in the collection of wheat ears is to manage rice. I don't know what other children think. That's what I thought at that time, too, because big pot rice is better and fuller than home cooking.
Lunch is flour roll, corn porridge or sorghum rice porridge with beans, rare and thick, radish with pickles. Dinner is made of white sorghum flour and soybeans, and everything else is the same as lunch. What a delicious meal! I think my mouth is watering now.
The treatment of rice management does not always exist, but the day of autumn harvest and autumn planting. I took part in all the activities organized by the production team in those days, for nothing but the delicious meal. That's what I was thinking.
In the sixties and seventies, all farm children (boys and girls) would not go to the fields to pick ears of rice and wheat. Just different from Mo Yan's picking wheat ears, it is organized by the production team first, and then handed over to the team according to the weight. After the team picks it up, it is allowed to take it home after work.
When I was a child, I lived in the countryside of Jiaodong Peninsula. This village is small, half mountain and half plain, with less than 200 families.
The geographical location of our village is right in the middle of the surrounding villages. So the school became a middle school, including primary school, junior high school and senior high school.
Many teachers live in the school, which has a canteen. My village sent someone to cook for the teacher.
I remember when I was in primary school, every summer, after the members harvested the wheat, the teacher would lead us to pick up the ears of wheat left in the field.
A large wheat field is full of primary school students from grade one to grade five, each carrying a small basket brought from home, while picking up ears of wheat, talking and laughing, and exchanging skills of rubbing ears of wheat with each other.
Pick up an ear of wheat from the ground, put it in two palms and rub it back and forth (if you are skilled, you can rub two ears of wheat at a time), then stick your mouth on two opposite palms, and blow hard, and the wheat skin will fly away lightly. Chewing the remaining grains in your mouth, soft, waxy, sweet and memorable.
The teacher checked that there were no ears of wheat in the field, and we lined up to pay the teacher. It was not clear how the teacher would settle accounts with the production team.
I only know that it is a pleasure to pick wheat ears. I always look forward to the rapid maturity and harvest of wheat in summer. ...
Pick it up! Picked ears of wheat are given work points by catty to the team, and the team declares "release" (no longer in charge) to belong to itself. At that time, people consciously obeyed the rules of the team, and it would be considered a shame to take the picked ears of wheat home before announcing the team.
To put it bluntly, I was a resident of a rural town. When studying, we should organize support for agriculture every year, manage meals for the production team, help the production team harvest and improve stability. Some people pick up the ears of wheat after school. At that time, in our place, production teams were not allowed to pick up food in the fields. Only after their members take the straw can they enter the field, otherwise it will be called stealing. We pick ears mainly in the pile of orange stalks and also in the fields. Knowing that it was wrong, I had to sneak around and was confiscated by members. I also know that it occupied everyone's interests, but selfishness occupied the nobility at that time.
In the sixties and seventies, productivity was very low. The management of crop harvesting is manual.
Wheat harvest coincides with the busy season of three summers, which is the busiest season for farmers in a year. It can be said that members work overtime and can't finish the work.
At that time, students were busy supporting agriculture during the holidays, and no one in the production team was idle, even women with little feet, from children of eleven or twelve to elderly people of sixty or seventy.
The production team organized the children to pick up the ears of wheat. I've been involved for three or four years. Teachers often teach us to cherish food, and we know that food is precious. Each of our children is very serious about picking up the ears of wheat, and we all try our best to return the grains to the warehouse. It can be said that there were basically no ears of wheat behind the wheat fields in the past, only grains of wheat.
Old people in their sixties and seventies do some light work during the day, such as pulling weeds and watching fields. The purpose of guarding the field is to prevent birds such as sparrows (there were quite a few birds like sparrows at that time) from competing with people for food, or to prevent a few people who unconsciously pretend to be sick (such people are rare) from stealing public grain and returning to the warehouse.
These people who unconsciously pretend to be sick are very smart, and they have great courage. They simply don't steal the ears of wheat from the uncovered wheat field after harvest, which is time-consuming and laborious, and they can't pick much. After a long time, it increases the risk of being caught.
They either take a bundle of wheat that has not been carried away after harvest or steal half a bag from the grain pile, which saves labor and time and reduces the risk of being caught, as long as they act in their eyes. If they are caught, they have many ways to save the situation. Everyone who catches them knows that such people are difficult to deal with. As long as they put things down, they will know that they can save trouble and avoid talking, and turn a blind eye. ) basically, she won't be beaten unless she finds a fight and annoys her captors!
Anyway, at that time, the wheat harvest here was all public, and there were no idle people except those who were really seriously ill and a few people who pretended to be sick during the busy farming season in the third summer. I wonder if other places are like us? Maybe some places are special, otherwise some people say that picking up an ear of wheat will be arrested and beaten up. Are these people glaring and lying? !
At all times, China and foreign countries attach importance to eating, wearing and burning. The more difficult it is, the more expensive it is. During the large collective period, picking up wheat or other grains, as well as sweet potatoes and peanuts, was based on generosity. After picking it up, everyone chooses the right time to pick it up or take it out. The purpose is that everyone has a share. Someone will take care of it when it is not timely. Generally speaking, it's time to get off work. At that time, it was called release, and men, women and children went into battle together.
If you don't release it, no one is allowed to pick it up, for fear of affecting the workers' harvest. At that time, the wheat stubble was also divided according to the population, and all kinds of crops were harvested after the division. At that time, I was nervous about eating and burning.
Have you ever picked up ears of wheat in the field? Should I give it to the collective or take it home? In the sixties and seventies of last century, all the fields in rural areas were owned by collectives except a small plot of private plots for growing vegetables. I was born and raised in the countryside. When I was a child, picking up ears of wheat and rice was an absolute experience.
My hometown is a deep mountain area, and paddy fields are all terraced fields built along the mountain shape, almost crescent-shaped, and paddy fields are not very big. The land is also a slope, and there is almost no flat land. In summer, when the wheat is cut and dried, it must be tied up and picked up. Generally, in the process of bundling, the production team will arrange older women to pick up the missing ears of wheat in the field and send them to the rice fields where the production team accumulates them. The ears of wheat picked in the field after work are usually taken home. Of course, someone has arranged to pick it up once before, and only a little will be picked up later. Even if you pick it up, it won't be much. Most of the wheat ears I picked were taken home, and they were usually used to feed chickens.
In autumn, after the rice is harvested and dried, it will be bundled and sent back to the paddy field of the production team. Just like harvesting wheat, the production team will also arrange for elderly people to pick up the missing ears of rice in the process of bundling rice. During the working period, the wheat and rice ears will be owned by the collective and handed over to the collective. Since it is a work, of course, the production team will give you work points.
In the sixties and seventies, the country was still poor and backward, not to mention farmers. There is not enough food and oil. In rural families with a large population, they have to eat miscellaneous grains for several months in a year. Some farmers even dug pueraria lobata in the mountains and brought it back to process Ge Fen to make up for the lack of food. After 70 years, the country began to have fixed grain sales, and the problem of farmers' rations was substantially alleviated.
Therefore, in the rural areas in the sixties and seventies, not to mention picking up the ears of wheat and rice, but also picking up the fallen ears of wheat and rice, which is not only hard, but also expensive!
Think about how much farmers cherished food in the past! Now, every time we go to a restaurant, we pour more food than we eat. That scene is really shocking! It is both chilling and sad. How much food does a country with a population of1400 million need every day? How much food can we produce every year? It is really worrying to see people's indifference and waste of food now! At that time, the country once put forward such a slogan about waste: corruption and waste are great sins! It is for this reason that people will call for the promulgation of the Food and Beverage Law as soon as possible.