Just from the Spring Festival couplets posted on the doors of each household, we can tell that before the 1980s, the content of people's Spring Festival couplets was related to the Jieshi Revolution, but now there has been a big change: the content of such couplets includes things like the spring breeze of reform and getting rich through hard work.
Nowadays, when people meet each other on the street, they no longer greet each other with revolutionary words, but with simple and everyday greetings, which usually start with "Happy New Year!"
Women will also talk about what they bought for the Spring Festival, New Year's lunch, New Year's Eve dinner, family members, and children. The atmosphere and people's moods are obviously more natural and optimistic.
Rong Qing actually really enjoyed observing this scene of fireworks, because it was just the beginning of the 1980s, and there was actually no specific distinction between the 1970s and the 1980s. Except for a few people with an annual income of 10,000 yuan, people in rural areas were still working hard to make a living from the loess land.
People in the city also rely on the dozens or hundreds of dollars a month they earn from working in factories. Moreover, not every adult in every household has a job, and many families rely on one main labor force to support the family.
Family planning has not yet been officially implemented, and each household still has a large population, so this has led to the vast majority of people still struggling to make ends meet and are very tight on money.
Just by looking at the people passing by the stall without buying anything, the children who were brought out to play had to act like a spoiled child or act like a spoiled child to get a candied haws.
Moreover, Rong Qing saw very clearly that when they paid, the amount of money they took out from their inner pockets wrapped in handkerchiefs was not much, and the most was no more than a hundred yuan.
Of course, there are also those who keep their wealth secret, so most of the money is kept at home or in passbooks, which can be learned from what Rong Qing sees and hears, and from the conversations with the people that he overhears when his spiritual consciousness is released.
In this day and age, it's often said that women hold up half the sky, but in reality, women's status in most families is low, with men still in the driver's seat. Besides earning money for the family, and most importantly, holding the economic lifeline, women only have the small allowances they save from their teeth, so they are even more reluctant to spend them.
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