Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

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"I don't have much medicine prepared, but this folk remedy is effective. You can ask your family members to make a bath together."

If Han Zhaozhao came to this era, what he admired most was people's tenacious vitality like weeds!

They may be poor and hungry, but they are full of faith and hope and can survive in any harsh environment.

They use their own hands and wisdom to create their own way of life, and this spirit is moving.

In this era, although people are materially poor, their spiritual world is extremely rich.

They know how to cherish and be grateful. Their love for the country, the party and Chairman Mao is not just a slogan; it is the purest belief and sentiment.

No matter how hard the life was, they remained resilient and optimistic, which deeply moved Han Zhaozhao.

When I first came to this era, within less than a year, I first experienced the "Four Pests Campaign", then the "Great Leap Forward", and then the "Steel Production Campaign".

Han Zhaozhao also felt that people of this era were foolish, ignorant and stupid, but when she was at the construction site of the top ten buildings for National Day, she suddenly discovered that the people of this era were so pure!

They are not really stupid. They are smart, have perseverance, and of course have their own little thoughts and schemes.

But having experienced so much suffering, they have absolute trust in the country and its leaders.

But our country is too young, we have no experience in many things, and there is no social system of any country that we can learn from. We have to cross the river by feeling the stones, and even if we get hurt, we will always keep moving forward.

New China is the greatest country!

When the people have faith, the country has strength!

This sentence has been put into practice since the founding of New China.

Han Zhaozhao looked at everyone's simple, rough but enthusiastic smiles, and his heart was filled with emotion.

She realized that her previous understanding of this era was too superficial. People were not rich, but they had a rich inner world and firm beliefs.

During this time, Han Zhaozhao gradually integrated into this big family. She learned a lot of social skills that she had never cared about before, and also felt the sincere emotions between people.

As time went by, Han Zhaozhao found himself liking this era more and more.

It's not just adults who are persevering. Children of this generation are also stronger and more persevering than children of later generations. When it comes to being able to endure hardships and hardship, they are incomparable to children of the new era.

After just one day of rest at home, the friends couldn't sit still anymore, so they picked up ropes and went up the mountain to chop firewood.

Their hands were wrapped with thick strips of rags, and they were not afraid of the pain. The five of them had only three tools, including the Han family's saw, the Niu family's machete, and the Qian family contributed a broken axe with a notch on it.

Han Zhaozhao cut a lot of yellow broom branches on the mountain. The three girls followed to chop firewood for three days, but the two boys would not let them go.

There is no place to stay at home. Don’t we have yellow broom? Earthen baskets are in short supply at major construction sites. Let’s make some baskets!

If you can’t do physical work, you can do logistics!

The workers have sturdy and handy tools, and their efficiency is improved. Aren't they also making contributions?

Now, even the old lady whose leg injury has not yet healed has a job to do, and she can do the job of weaving baskets easily.

The four women were weaving baskets at home, and the demand for yellow broom increased. Niu Xiaomin and Xiao Sanzi stopped chopping firewood and cut yellow broom instead.

Basket weaving not only requires yellow vitex, but also a large number of basket ties. The wild jujube tree is the best material for making basket ties, so the two boys began to search the mountains and plains for suitable wild jujube trees.

The Han family's yard was like a weaving factory, filled with materials for making baskets.

With so many people coming in and out, it also attracted the attention of the old ladies with bound feet in the alley.

Well, at the beginning one person came to help, and as time went on, one after another old ladies with bound feet joined in.

The Han family had no room to move their things in their yard, so they had to ask the neighborhood committee for help.

Director Zhang came to the Han family and said, "Hey! This is a good thing! We must support it!"

With a wave of his hand, everything was moved. An abandoned warehouse was found, and all the materials and people were moved there!

There were too many people working on making baskets, and there were not enough people going up the mountain to cut broom branches.

Director Zhang had a solution. At the beginning, he selected six young women to go up the mountain.

As batches of earthen baskets were formed and sent to the construction site, more people were involved in making the baskets.

In this way, what was originally a spontaneous action of a few friends eventually turned into a collective activity on the street.

But the result was good. The basket-weaving team went from completing an average of seven or eight baskets a day to gradually increasing their output to more than thirty earthen baskets a day.

The neighborhood committee organized people to deliver earthen baskets to the construction site of the Great Hall of the People, the Military Museum, and several other nearby construction sites.

Because of this incident, their neighborhood committee received a commendation from their superiors, calling on citizens to liberate their minds, improve their ideological initiative, and do everything possible to ensure the completion of the ten major construction projects.

Director Zhang was in high spirits recently, and even walked with a breeze. None of the mess in the cafeteria could affect her good mood.

The chefs in the canteen are also in a difficult situation. Even a good cook cannot cook without rice!

But ordinary people don't care about these things. If you are in charge of the canteen and people don't eat well, they will definitely come to you to complain.

The leaders also put pressure on them. They had no choice but to start thinking and thinking of ways to make things. They came up with things like double-steamed rice and repeatedly fermented steamed buns and corn bread.

Just fool your stomach! Don’t force the taste!

It was in this context that the Spring Festival of 1958 arrived.

This Spring Festival, no one is in the mood to celebrate the New Year.

If we can’t buy New Year’s goods, steam buns, make tofu, or make dumplings at home, there’s no New Year atmosphere!

We ate together in the big canteen. I couldn’t say whether the New Year’s food was delicious or not, but at least we didn’t go hungry and everyone was full.

On New Year's Eve, the old lady was able to walk with crutches. The Han family's grandparents and grandchildren also had their New Year's Eve dinner in the cafeteria.

Big buns made of corn, sweet potato and wheat flour, three for each adult and two or one for each child.

However, each table also had a pot of sea fish and a pot of cabbage stewed with meat. It was said that they were all transferred from other provinces.

There is fish and meat, it's quite a feast!

In the dining hall, people were greeting each other and saying auspicious words, and the atmosphere was very good.

After dinner, everyone went home to stay up all night to celebrate the New Year.