Study On Livestock Breeding Before And After The Great Leap Forward

Livestock is an important means of production and valuable wealth in traditional Chinese rural society.Livestock raising in the collectivization period was not only a daily economic activity,but also a politicized group movement.After the founding of the People's Republic of China,the ownership of livestock in rural society has been changing with major political movements,and the feeding activities of farmers at the bottom have also changed.Seemingly simple livestock raising activities actually involve multiple aspects of animal food,breeder,individual interest and collective interest game.At the end of 1958,the kaifeng committee of the communist party of China began the great leap forward movement of livestock.In the early stage of the leap forward,the government adopted the policy of "public breeding first,private breeding second",and maintained a tolerant policy for farmers to raise and sell small livestock.With the further severe situation of the leap forward,the food shortage has brought about the overall panic of the rural society.Farmers who are seriously short of grain are unable to complete the task of requisition and purchase,and have to hand over rations,feed grains and seed grains,which close off almost all approaches to free-range livestock.But to boost agricultural production,the government has issued directives to increase the amount of livestock that can be fattened.Forage and forage are the only things that livestock need to increase in fatness.In order to store forage grass,kaifeng special district committee organized various teams to store grass and adjust the remaining grass.Due to the extreme shortage of forage grass and bid up the price,kaifeng municipal committee of land and resources had to allocate forage grass loans and adopt measures of "work generation grass" to promote people's enthusiasm for raising livestock.Under the command of the severe index of "great leap forward of livestock",the group of breeders has attracted special attention for its multiple symbols such as "class" and "technology".A large number of propaganda reports and literary works focus on the rural breeder,thus establishing the classic image of the socialist moral model in MAO ze dong's era.It is widely publicized in the rural society,but the other side with differences and even contradictions is blocked.Under the class discourse of "raising the status of breeder",we can find that the survival needs and rights discourse are interwoven behind it.