Pot rice was eaten in 1958, and the concept of pot rice can be traced back to the appearance of "people's commune" in 1958. Pot rice is an image metaphor of egalitarianism in distribution. 1958 Summer, the Great Leap Forward, like the increasingly hot weather, was in full swing and reached its climax. In some rural areas, people's communes have been formed. In some places, the enthusiasm is very high, and the distribution system is completely implemented, so public canteens came into being.
The concept of big pot rice can be traced back to the appearance of 1958 people's commune, which is also closely related to the Great Leap Forward, people's commune and accelerated industrial accumulation. In a cooperative, farmers' rations are distributed to a family. After entering the Great Leap Forward and the People's Commune, the commune and the production team were in charge of rations. This is the most criticized canteen and cauldron today. At that time, cauldron rice was cooked in a small pot relative to ration distribution, and cauldron rice was an image metaphor of egalitarianism in distribution. In the 1960s and 1970s, the phenomenon of "egalitarianism" still existed, which led to negative thoughts. Doing well and doing badly leads to serious internal friction. Then it was abolished.
The origin of the name
In China after 1950s, the word "pot rice" became a household name, and was well known to all women and children. Therefore, many people think that pot rice is the product of socialist planned economy. In fact, it has a longer history. People often use big pot rice to describe the phenomenon that everyone has a share in doing good or bad things at work. Cauldron rice originated from Qingyun Temple in Guangdong. Qingyun Temple on Qixingyan has a huge iron pot built in Ming Dynasty.
Cooking a pot of rice in this iron pot is enough for hundreds of monks. However, this large iron pot is not actually used for cooking, but for giving alms to the donors who worship Buddha. It was placed in a corner of the Buddhist temple, surrounded by iron railings. All good men and women who enter the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha will throw in a few copper coins when they pass by the big iron pot.
One is to offer sacrifices to bodhisattvas in order to reduce blessings and disasters;
The second is to maintain the livelihood of monks in the temple.
So this cauldron, which has never been cooked, is the livelihood of monks, and it is filled with genuine cauldron rice. This is the origin of the word pot rice.
Under the "big pot" system, personal interests and benefits are not linked to the size of labor achievements and social contributions, which inhibits the enthusiasm and creativity of workers, makes government organizations, enterprises and institutions lose their inner vitality and seriously affects the development of social productive forces. The "big pot rice" system is not an insurmountable drawback in the process of socialist development. With the deepening of economic and political system reform, various political and economic relations have been straightened out, various forms of responsibility system have been established, the "big pot rice" system will end, and the disadvantages brought by the "big pot rice" system will be overcome.