Beautiful prose of the era when fertilizer bags were used to make pants.

In the early 1960s, China began to import fertilizer from Japan, but the amount of imported fertilizer was very small, especially in rural areas, so people regarded it as a rarity.

To tell the truth, many people haven't seen it, so they made some jokes and told some stories accordingly.

My mother once said that seven fields of March taro were planted in their village one year, but when it was planted later, the manure in each cowshed of the production team was used up, that is, the grass and fertilizer needed for planting taro were not enough. But a big mound field cannot be planted empty. So it was suggested that the chemical fertilizer made in Japan had been seen at the site of the production team. I don't know if it's ok. After all, no one has used it. Some people just say, whatever, try it. So I chatted with the cadres of the production team. Of course, I took a bag of fertilizer with the words made in Japan and urea printed on my pocket to grow taro. Only then did my mother realize what fertilizer was.

At that time, people were afraid that they couldn't do it, so they picked a few people to shit. We call it excrement here. Then, we fished out a series of shallow ditches in the field, scooped up a ladle of excrement in the shallow ditches and poured it on it, then loosely held a handful of chemical fertilizer in our hands and sprinkled it on the excrement, put the taro seeds away, and finally covered it with soil. Who knows that when it comes to digging taro, taro planted with chemical fertilizer bears more fruit than other taro planted with grass fertilizer.

I am menstruating and I teach in Haijing. She once told us a story about fertilizer. It is said that there is a woman in a mountain village who doesn't know her Chinese characters. She went to the production team's office for a meeting with her child on her back. When she saw the fertilizer in her pocket, shiny white salsa, she thought it was sugar. While no one was looking, she grabbed a handful and stuffed it into the child's mouth. Who knows that the child cried immediately. At that time, the mother also complained that the child cried when he said something to eat, and others could not eat if they wanted to. Seeing that the child was still crying badly, she was a little surprised, so she grabbed a little and put it in her mouth. It turns out that this sugar is not delicious, it smells like urine and it is very spicy.

In that era when materials were scarce, materials were purchased and sold in a unified way, and everything had to be purchased by ticket. Materials are uniformly sold by units designated by the state, and the sales right of fertilizers is in the supply and marketing cooperatives. At that time, everyone only distributed a few feet of cloth tickets a year, of course, it was different from place to place. My mother said that one year in our countryside, one person only issued one foot and two cloth tickets, and there were very few cloth tickets, so it became a problem to wear clothes. Without cloth tickets, you can't buy them even if you have money, and there is no money in the countryside. In rural areas, most families still overspend after a hard year. My mother said that my second father-in-law sold me a pair of patched trousers for four dollars.

The chemical fertilizer imported from Japan was a white chemical fiber called nylon in China at that time. This chemical fiber is thin, soft and smooth. Because fertilizer bags don't need tickets, they are sold as processing prices, so the prices are cheaper. At that time, someone saw a soft and lubricated fertilizer bag and had a whim to use it instead of cloth to make pants. Two fertilizer bags are put together to make a pair of pants, which are light and not easy to wrinkle. So for a while, you made pants with fertilizer bags like me, and a group of special groups wearing fertilizer bags appeared.

But after all, the amount of imported fertilizer is limited, and of course there are few fertilizer pockets, so fertilizer pockets have become a rarity, and it is not easy for ordinary people to get them. What they can get are village cadres with certain powers and some internal managers of supply and marketing cooperatives. Of course, most people who can wear fat bags to make pants can only be cadres, and wearing fat bags to make pants has become the symbol and symbol of cadres at that time. Unfortunately, the fertilizer bag is white, but the font printed on it is black. I don't know what method Japan used. The black font printed on the fertilizer bag, such as Japanese production and urea, can't be removed, even if it is dyed, it can't be covered up. Whether dyed black or blue, the black font on the fertilizer bag is still faintly visible. Therefore, the people saw a group of cadres wearing pants made of Japanese fertilizer bags parading in the streets of the village, and of course they were envious, so they made up a lot of jingles to ridicule them to vent their dissatisfaction and express their grievances.

There are many jingles, so let's choose a few as people's pastime.

Big cadres and small cadres wear nylon pants, the left butt is Japanese, the right butt is domestic, and the front is urea.

The crotch is faintly visible, with a content of 75%.

Big cadres, small cadres and two fertilizer bags make up a pair of nylon trousers, which are dyed black and blue, but there are no members of our party. Big cadres, small cadres, go through the back door, pull relationships, just to get two fertilizer bags to make a pair of nylon pants.

Cadres see cadres wearing nylon pants. Nylon pants, slightly shaking, floating around, the crowd is more arrogant at a stop, and some people call you a cadre, not a cadre.

There is a big cadre in the village with nylon trousers in his fertilizer pocket. One stop in front of the stage is more eye-catching. The back butt is made in Japan, and the front belly is urea. Go to the village to find cadres and nylon pants. The back is made in Japan, and the front is crotch with percent urea.