History of the second day of junior high school

In today's market, all kinds of goods are dazzling, and people are free to buy what they need. However, just over a decade ago, this was something that people could only dream of. In the era of material shortage, rice, oil, eggs, meat, vegetables, clothes, shoes and socks, pots and pans, needles and needles are supplied and purchased strictly by ticket.

In the early days of liberation, in order to quickly restore the national economy and carry out planned economic construction, 1953, Beijing implemented the policy of unified purchase and marketing of basic necessities such as grain, oil and cotton cloth, and commodity tickets came into being as a means to adjust the planned supply. Until 1993, the commodity ticket that dominated people's livelihood for 40 years finally completed its historical mission and quietly withdrew from the historical stage. For children born in the middle and late 1970s, it seems unimaginable to buy all kinds of daily necessities with tickets. But for those who have experienced the era of tickets, those colorful tickets were once the important property of countless families in China, bearing the ups and downs of social life and marking the bitterness and helplessness of the people.

We have bid farewell to the era of tickets, but people in that era still have lingering memories of the sadness and joy brought by tickets. Wang Zhaokun, a 76-year-old man, recalled that year and said, "It was a difficult day. Today, recalling that painful experience can be said to be sweet. " He told reporters that there were dozens of tickets such as food stamps, oil tickets, cloth tickets, coal tickets, tofu tickets, soap tickets, meat tickets, fish tickets and kerosene tickets. If you want to light a stove, you must use three kinds of tickets, including coal ticket, firewood ticket and match ticket. Every family should find out the purpose of these dozens of lottery tickets every month. For some uneducated old people, they often joke that they buy soap with tofu tickets and matches with oil tickets. At that time, food stamps were the most important thing. No food stamps means no food. Be sure to exchange national food stamps before going on a business trip, otherwise the local restaurant will not sell you food.

Gone are the days of half a grain stamp, one foot cloth stamp and three meat stamps. Now, those tickets that have survived the years are becoming collectibles, which have witnessed the people of China moving from poverty to prosperity and the difficult course of China moving from planned economy to market economy.