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1 Portion Dried Tofu - Food Stamp Fengxin County, Jiangxi
| Issuer | Fengxin County Grain Bureau (奉新县粮食局) |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper with a thin single-line rectangular border. Issuer name and commodity type are set in large simplified Chinese characters across the upper portion, with the denomination 壹份 (one portion) printed in bold centre. A circular red official seal of the Fengxin County Grain Bureau is applied at centre, overlapping the denomination text. Validity and loss-disclaimer notices flank the seal in smaller characters. |
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| Obverse lettering | 奉新县粮食局 豆干票 壹份 遗失不补 当季有效 七七年第四季度 (Translation: Fengxin County Grain Bureau Dried tofu ticket One portion No reissue if lost, valid for the current season only. Fourth Quarter of 1977) |
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Chinese county-level food stamps of this type were administrative rationing instruments, not currency — they entitled the bearer to collect a fixed quantity of a specific commodity from a designated state depot, and were meaningless outside the issuing county. Fengxin, a small agricultural county in northern Jiangxi, would have administered grain and supplementary food allocations through its local Grain Bureau under the unified purchasing and supply system still firmly in place in 1977, the year after Mao's death and well before any liberalization of rural markets.
Dried tofu stamps are among the more perishable categories of Chinese local ration coupon — issued in small batches, used quickly, and rarely retained. County-printed examples from Jiangxi at this period were typically produced on whatever stock the local administrative printing facility had available.