A Research Into The Living Standards Of Farmers In Guangxi Duing The Thirties Of 20th Century

The living standard, which involves the people's survival and development, is the most basic question in life. Observing people's living standard in a certain period can help understanding the social state at the time deeply and directly, and revealing the trend of the historical development.As the transferring period from traditional to modem and from natural to commercial, the countryside of Guangxi province during twenties in the 1930's century were uneven. In this period, Guangxi accounts for the majority of the population, the peasant household, low-income harvest can still barely survive Famine, an encounter would go bankrupt, limited income doomed to ordinary farmers can only maintain a basic living consumption. In a word,during this period, Guangxi farmers as a whole, life is difficult. Consumer situation, the farmers could not maintain food and clothing, food grains mainly coarse grains, flour and rice rare; clothes more users or organizations bought cheap foreign lines, machine-woven cloth made by the women ; housing mostly thatched cottage, began, the little tile-roofed house. Remove the basic survival needs of material consumption, the farmers completely take into account other, Guangxi farmers spirit consumption showed poor condition. Amateur entertainment, rural villages only old dragon dance, lion, it stressed the division public. Funeral marriage of commoners, the peasants bear a heavy burden. Because farmers even the most basic conditions for survival do not have, access to education is a luxury in the matter, once it had the disease, treatment on shamans sorcerer because they have no money for treatmentCareful analysis of the 1930s standard of living of farmers in Guangxi, we can see that their overall standard of living is low, Major features of the low-income, quality of life is poor. urban and rural areas, rural strata, ethnic groups and the gap between men and women obviously; In addition, Modern development of the commodity economy has also taught farmers took unfair branding of the times.From a different perspective, lead to lower living standards of farmers main reasons : land i nfertile. frequency and severity of natural disasters are natural; Tian uneven distribution of power and heavy rent, high taxes loansharking spread of rural low levels of productivity, coupled with unhealthy living and consumption practices. These human factors suffocation rural social productivity; and the Western powers to China's economic aggression caused by the dumping of commodities. 1929~1933 the world economic crisis and the first half of the 20th century period Guangxi serious traced from the chaos have aggravated rural social deterioration of the environment has become an important external factors. These factors interact to cause the 1930s Guangxi their living standards low.During the 1930s, Guangxi, is the epitome of the whole of China. Like other rural provinces, Guangxi in rural imperialist forces and the remnants of the feudal shackles under double has been declining. The decline became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal agricultural society. Lower standards of living and social environment of instability in rural areas difficult to embark on a track of sound development. the vast rural areas urgently need a fundamental change.