I was born in 1955. In the early 1960s, I met a man riding a tricycle to solicit customers in Beijing. Some Beijingers called him "Mr. Banel". At that time, someone spent 20 cents to buy a rotten pear, peeled it off, and then spent 10 cents to buy two or two bulk Erguotou, half lying on a tricycle to drink. At that time, people's lives were similar, and no one looked down on anyone!
In winter, I often see a row of old people basking in the sun, naked in black cotton-padded jackets and crotch-less pants, rubbing their heads with their hands and chatting.
Look at today's living conditions, it's really getting worse every day. At that time, we thought so! At that time, my father said: foreigners wash clothes with washing machines! I can't imagine that machines can replace washboards.
Dr. Kissinger's speech: China is so great! Do you know what it was like forty or fifty years ago?
Decades ago, poor rural drunkards generally drank "over-the-counter wine", that is, the same drinking method as Kong Yiji, and "drink less", and fennel beans were not needed.
There is no need to look at those at the bottom of society with different eyes. Everyone knows that chicken, duck and fish are more delicious than radish and vegetables, isn't it because of poverty? In order to relieve fatigue, you can only use steamed bread (eating steamed bread is a luxury) as a dining table.
In the 1970s and 1980s, it was often seen in restaurants that a person asked for three bowls of rice without buying food (he couldn't afford it), found a corner table, poured the soy sauce provided by the restaurant on the rice (three or four soy sauce bottles were spent on the table), and then instantly mixed the three bowls of rice.
When you eat in the restaurant of Yongdingmen Railway Station, you can always meet a few people who don't order food and stare at those who are about to finish eating. Once the man left, he passed quickly. If there is anything left in the bowl, pick up the bowl and eat it. These are mostly petitioners.
It was in the early 1970s, and the branch was building a corps in Yumen. The Corps raises chickens, grows vegetables and drinks water by itself. At least a few dishes. The countryside will be miserable. We helped Huze No.2 Team in Huangzhawan, Yumen Town, and bought a batch of agricultural products in Tianjin. On the day of delivery, Huze No.2 team hosted a banquet for us. Only inferior liquor in big white plastic barrels. An empty dining table and a bowl of wine for everyone. The captain said, let's have a bowl first. That's necessary. If you don't drink, you should have one. This is a wine-fighting carnival that was popular in the countryside at the beginning, and the team was accompanied by winemakers. Banquets without dishes were very common in the countryside at that time, but we really couldn't accept them. At this time, there was a summary of ordering food, "Drink, drink, what do you want?" The captain immediately sent someone to the vegetable field to pick some raw peppers and put them on the wine table without washing them. Then there is the combination of fists and feet, customs clearance. According to local etiquette, tourists have to drink a few glasses of wine before they can enjoy themselves. As a result, all the guests drank it, and I remember spitting all the clear and translucent original white wine.