What was real life like in the old society?

The lifestyle of old China society is not much different from that of thousands of years ago. Most people in rural areas use "black oil lamps" or even torches for lighting. Ordinary small and medium-sized landlords also wear coarse cloth and eat coarse grains. It is rare to eat polished rice, rice and fish. Soap, matches, kerosene and other daily necessities are luxury goods and must be imported, which most people can't afford.

Only landlords with better economic conditions can live in brick houses. The vast number of poor farm workers live at the bottom of society, and many people have no fixed place in the world. They eat chaff and wild vegetables all the year round, are hungry and cold, and struggle back and forth on the brink of death.

Farmers are not only heavily exploited and oppressed by landlords and rich peasants, but also by the imperialists who invaded China after being involved in the international market, and they are also detained by Kuomintang reactionaries for their salaries and exorbitant taxes. The sufferings of old China, especially in the countryside.

Thoughts of the old society

Due to the oppression of the three mountains and the backwardness of education and science, the whole culture of old China was dominated by colonial culture, feudal culture and bureaucratic capitalist culture. People's thoughts are generally enslaved and ignorant by these reactionary and decadent cultures, and the advanced revolutionary ideology and culture are extremely cruelly closed, imprisoned and suppressed. People's thoughts are generally paralyzed and poisoned, and they generally believe in gods, ghosts and lives.

"Three Obediences and Four Virtues", "Every man for himself, the devil takes the hindmost" and "Money makes the mare go" are widely accepted creeds. Lu Xun compared the reactionary cultural rule of old China to "cannibalism".