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Four generations of the Liao family still live together. At the time of the rice planting, they get together for a family feast to celebrate the harvest to come. As part of the celebration, they cook traditional rice dumpling wrapped in leaves. This ancient practice is still a powerful symbol of a family’s wealth and success.

Every child takes the special dumpling to school on the day after the feast. It’s like a like a great big competition. They all show/ off and compare/ them with each other to see who has got the biggest and the best one.

Grandpa /Liao is /head of the family. He is also a leading figure in the local Communist party. He is responsible for relaying details of the party’s policies to the remote reaches of the dragon’s back. He’s found a perfect way to get the party’s directives out to his fellow farmers. He turns them into simple slogans and poems.

Growing crops to increase our food. So every family needs a plan that’s good. You can’t relax at harvests and a store of crops means cash to spend.

Mr. Liao has set his blackboard out in the village/ square for two decades now, a direct connection with the Communist party headquarters in Beijing 1,000 miles away.

In 2004, I was honored as an outstanding party member. I put the certificate up on the wall, so the younger members of the family can see what their granddad achieved.

Until 1978, the Communist party directly controlled all of China’s land. But then, they announced an extraordinary change in policy. The party decided to hand the land over to the peasants to run themselves. The average peasant/ income rocketed by more than 1,500%. And the lives of the Liao family change/ beyond all recognition.

Ever since the land was privatized, life has been getting better and better.

We now eat much better.
We now eat better and we have better clothes. Now, we’ve even bought a fridge and a TV.

But if life has improved in China’s rural heartland, the greatest revolution has occurred

They are still very poor compare to richs live in big cities .