Obviously, there is enough food to eat. Why do people "hoard grain" in rural areas?

They still have traditional ideas, because in ancient China, farmers had a hard time. They have experienced various natural and man-made disasters and long-term famine. Especially in the fifties and sixties, farmers may never forget the pain of hunger. Therefore, the habit of hoarding food is deeply imprinted in their minds.

In the countryside, many families have several barns. Usually, the newly collected grain is put in the barn first. If someone comes to pick it up, they will sell it properly. At present, the planting scale is not large. There is nothing to sell except food. In your own home, you have to feed poultry and so on. There are many grain reserves, which generally need to be preserved for more than half a year. Early rice is basically backward, and late rice is backward. This is also rural knowledge. People who grow rice at home will understand why.

Food grown at home is usually better in quality and taste than food bought. We should know that although the crop yield is high now, most of them are genetically modified foods. Some crops have been sprayed with countless pesticides from birth to maturity. Although these foods are harmless to the human body if eaten in the stomach, they are not natural, safe and pollution-free.

Although we are rich now, there is still a gap in living standards between rural areas and cities. In rural areas, the elderly basically earn less. They don't want to sell their leftover food until the next year. In case you can't buy enough food. Nowadays, more and more people, especially city residents, are concerned about health. They are even willing to pay high prices for vegetables and fruits in rural areas because these are natural crops. Long-term consumption will not harm their health. In addition, crops grown in rural areas taste more natural. For example, wheat, many people grind carefully selected whole grain wheat into flour after harvesting new wheat, and take it out when their families want to eat it, which is much better than buying it in the city.