What was China like in the 1960s?

I'll give you a set of pictures to show you.

11958 April19, Beijing rounded up sparrows, one of the "four pests". The other three evils are flies, mosquitoes and mice. Sparrows are beneficial birds. Those years were "wronged" and gradually "rehabilitated" and replaced by bugs and cockroaches. This is a story about a Beijing resident who goes to the roof at night to drive away sparrows (Xinhua News Agency)

2/ 1962 65438+ 10, the children who visited the factory market during the Spring Festival in Beijing were most interested in a bunch of candied haws (photographed by Ta Kung Pao reporter in China Photo Archives).

3/1 95010 June1(photo by Yi Ding, Press and Photography Bureau)

4/ 195 1 10, vehicle exchange materials between urban and rural areas in Qianmen, Beijing (photo by Wang Chunde, Press, Photography and Information Bureau)

May 65438+March 0955, the new RMB was issued. This is a new version of RMB exchanged by the People's Bank of China Beijing Branch for the masses (Xinhua News Agency draft).