Talk about "dining hall"

in p>1959, the "people's commune" system was implemented throughout the country, and all land was owned by collectives, and collective production was organized by production teams. The production team collectively provides meals, which is called the "dining hall".

Our production team * * * has 26 families, about 14 people, and everyone eats in a pot, so some people call it "big pot rice".

The first half of the year is not bad. All the grain of the production team will be handed over to the public and purchased in a unified way, and the rest will be kept for unified meals. However, in the spring of 196, the food was eaten up, and after three years of natural disasters, there was no food for everyone in the dining hall. Sometimes the porridge cooked is described as "blowing a bubble and drinking a trough". By the second half of 1961, potherbs and bark were dug everywhere, and everything that could fill the belly was eaten up. Our production team had starved several people.

in the second half of 1962, the state put forward the policy of "adjustment, consolidation, enrichment and improvement", decentralized the canteen, and each family started their own business again, but the land was still owned by the collective, and each family earned work points and went home to the production team to distribute grain.