Hard times: for new year's Eve, queuing for tofu in the middle of the night.
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Wang Ping now wants to eat tofu, and walk into the supermarket with all kinds of tofu for you to choose. 40 years ago, tofu should be supplied on the basis of this ticket. Because the raw materials of tofu are soybeans, when the state supplies grain to the urban population quantitatively. The basic quantity of urban residents is 27 Jin per person per month. There are half a jin of beans per month in the quantity. Legumes are green beans, soybeans, red beans and cowpeas. According to the different seasons, the summer supply of mung beans, the winter supply of red beans (red beans), and the regular supply of soybeans. If you don't buy soybeans, you can buy a bean ticket with grain, and a pound of soybeans can get a pound of soybean tickets, and a pound of soybean tickets can buy three jin of tofu.
tofu was eight cents a Jin. Though not a delicacy, in the age of extremely scarce materials, tofu is also a rare and delicious meal on most families. I remember that many families were saving for a few months at that time. They saved enough to get the bean tickets to buy tofu. I was in primary school at that time, the most impressive is to learn, mother gave me half a jin of soya bean tickets and 12 Fen cents, I want to go to the grocery store to buy tofu, and thousands of exhortation, I want to cross the road to be careful. I was very happy in my heart. I had a stewed tofu for dinner.
weekday tofu supply is good. It can be bought in the morning. But before the Spring Festival, buying tofu became a major event at home. Because of the small supply of staple food at that time, the fish meat supplied by the Spring Festival was planned by the population, and the family had to use tofu to make crisp pot, fried balls, and dumplings stuffed with new year's Eve, and tofu became the main force of the family for the new year, so the amount of tofu in many families was larger. Although the quantity of tofu purchases in the grocery stores is more than usual, it still can not satisfy the needs of the public. Generally speaking, when buying tofu at home, there are 35 or even six or seven bean tickets. They are usually reluctant to eat at home, and deliberately save them for the Spring Festival. Before the Spring Festival, there was a "La Ba" festival. To buy tofu, it was necessary to get up early and queue up. In the morning, if you see long queues in front of the grocery store, with a basin or grate in your hand, you can buy tofu without asking.
it's often hard to see a grocery store open, and a few tricycles of tofu are sold. The buyers were so happy that those who had not been able to buy them for a long time would have to complain and leave. If they wanted to eat tofu, they would have to get up earlier and come back the next day. The most difficult time to buy is "twenty-three" in the twelfth year of the twelfth lunar month. I want to buy tofu and get up in the morning at three or four. Some families are queuing up in turn to buy tofu. It was freezing, sometimes ten degrees below zero, and under heavy snow. People wrapped themselves tightly and showed only two eyes, stamping their feet back and forth without complaint.
in order to make sure that you can buy tofu, people often put a basket on the doorway of the grocery store on the front of the day and "line up". People who come early in the second day do not approve of them. They throw them aside; others do not want to get up early in line. Write a small piece of paper, from the first to the number. After a few dozens of numbers, the later people saw no number, did not be willing to white, and then wrote their own number again, the results of two kinds of disordered sets, and finally the queue has no order, open the door everyone up, but bought the bean curd was crowded out of the crowd, the crowd out of the crowd, did not expect tofu was squeezed to the ground...
the experience of buying tofu in the Spring Festival is still fresh, and sometimes it is like listening to the night in the post - 80s or after 90.