Listen to the "Grain History" of Zhuzhou, the older generation of Zhuzhou people

Zhuzhou Evening News reporter/Wu Jingwen

It is the season of summer grain harvest. Nowadays, we can buy rice grains in the supermarket or the market, as if this is a trivial matter. However, just 5 or sixty years ago, holding food stamps and queuing outside the grain shop with rice bags can be said to be an important thing every month.

The huge changes are inseparable from the efforts of a generation. This time, we go back to the past and listen to the older generation of Zhuzhou people to talk about the "grain history" of the city.

Before liberation

There are 38 private food shops in Zhuzhou Town

Hunan has always been known as the "hometown of fish and rice." Relevant information records that around the 1930s, the province's grain output accounted for about 11%of the country's total output, ranking third in the country.

However, the grain people at that time often "eat by the sky", and the price of food is not stable. Coupled with the opening of the port at the time, the "Yangmi" dumped, the price of Xiangmi fell below 5 yuan per stone, and the production cost of each stone was around 10 yuan.

Gu Gujian injured farmers. In order to solve this problem, the provincial government decided to export Xiangmi outward. On the other hand, residents in Guangzhou need to purchase expensive Vietnam imported rice on weekdays, and the millet trade between Hunan and Guangdong has developed rapidly.

Prior to this, Zhuzhou, with the convenience of water transportation transportation, has ranked first in the business of Xiangtan Collection Town in the Xiangtan collecting town. Gumi in the inland hinterland of Hunan was transported from the Xiangjiang River to the surrounding areas. Related information records that with the opening of the Guangdong -Han Dynasty Railway in 1936, the Zhuzhou Railway Transport Command specialized in transporting grain trains to help the local valley trading business, and grain merchants opened a large number of rice factories and grain banks in Zhuzhou and other places. Relevant information records that in August 1949 on the eve of liberation, there were 38 private food shops in Zhuzhou Town, which were mainly concentrated at the at that time, which was close to the train station.

In 1950, Zhuzhou had the first state -owned grain shop

▲ Zhuzhou's first state -owned grain shop -Xijie Grain Store (data map).

In 1950, Zhuzhou summer grain was seriously apologized. In order to calm down the price of food, on October 12 of this year, Zhuzhou's first state -owned grain store was established in Jiefang West Street, and the name was "West Street Grain Store". The data records provided by the Municipal Commerce and Grain Bureau, this is an old house with brick and wood structure with a area of ​​less than 20 square meters and a total of 4 employees. Although this store only sold rice, the sales volume rose monthly. In 1951, it sold more than 7 million kilograms of rations to institutions, schools, factories, and residents. More kilograms.

In November 1953, Zhuzhou implemented a unified purchase of grain policies, and also stipulated that the city's industrial food and commercial food were included in the sales of state -owned grain stores. Concentrate on the newly opened state -owned grain stores in residential areas. In 1955, the food was supplied as planned, and Zhuzhou City also issued corresponding food stamps.

The older generation of Zhuzhou people still remembered. At that time, they took the "urban residents' grain and oil certificate" every month.

▲ Urban residents' grain permits for revenge democracy. Interviewee/Picture

Food stamps are not arbitrarily circulating. For example, grain stamps holding Zhuzhou cannot buy food across the city, and they must use Hunan provincial food stamps. If you go to a business trip in the country, you need to introduce letters in the country in exchange for national food tickets. Otherwise Northwest wind".

Democratic Democracy of Zhuzhou Cultural and History experts still remembers this. He cut into line in Liuyang and returned to Zhuzhou from the production team to a grain station. The grain station allocated index tickets before he could buy rice from the grain shop in Zhuzhou.

▲ Food and oil certificate collected by revenge democracy. Interviewee/Picture

The Democratic Democracy has collected a lot of ticket information during this period. According to his finishing record, the food supply of the town residents is allocated by the head registration according to the account. The residents of the town are quantitatively 12 kg per month. There are subsidies ranging from 5-10 kg per month.

The most difficult time, half of the food supply was replaced by sweet potato shreds. What should I do if I can't eat? He asked his friends who worked in the food bureau. Do not work for the pink bag in the factory, precipitate the flour pulp from the water of the washing bag, add a little salt into a paste, when the rice or fried into a cake, there is a full meal. So the noodle washing bag was a particularly sought -after job at the time.

Old name says that local "grain history"

In 1993, the grain stamps that completed the mission officially withdrawn from the market, and the state -owned grain stores also bid farewell to the historical stage. With the continuation of cultivated land protection policies and the development of grain planting technology, Zhuzhou not only became the first land -level city in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in my country, but also the first national, provincial, city, and county in Hunan Province to build tons of rice per mu. City and prefecture with grain reserves in level 4.

Today, we do n’t have to queue up to buy food, Yueyue, and “full” to become unusual. Combing this history, I discovered an interesting thing: Zhuzhou has been developing as a grain planting and distribution land for a long time. The urban and rural grain purchase and sales reserve networks such as grain shop are developed, and some place names related to food have also been born.

▲ Food ticket interviewee collected by revenge and democracy/picture

For example, bus T28 has a bus station called "Grain Shop" in the direction of Zhu Dong Road, which has witnessed the development of the Sanshin District.Another example is the old place name "Jiegu Street" we are familiar with.Water suffers, the rice planting rice in the rice fields is often produced in the "Valley", and Zhuzhou dialect refers to the "Valley" that is not full or even empty.With the nearby Disheng Street has become an important area of food trade, it is renamed "Jiegu Street" here, which is the expectation of everyone's harvest.Source: Zhuzhou Evening News

Review: Luo Xiaoling

Edit: Chen Chen

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