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2 Shi Liang - Coarse Grains Stamp Yanyuan County, Sichuan
| Issuer | Yanyuan County Food Bureau, Sichuan |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream ground with pink letterpress printing; a vignette of maize ears with husks occupies the left half, inscribed 粗粮 (coarse grains) above. To the right, a decorative cartouche in pink bears the denomination 贰市两 over the year 1982, with guilloche border strips along the bottom edge. Denomination numerals 0.2 appear at both upper corners flanking the issuer title. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream ground with pink letterpress printing; guilloche border strips run along the top and bottom edges. A circular official red ink stamp is applied to the centre. Three numbered clauses of usage instructions in simplified Chinese are printed beneath the heading 使用说明. |
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Shi Liang is a traditional Chinese unit of dry measure — one Shi Liang equals roughly 31.25 grams — and these grain ration stamps were the mechanism through which China's planned economy controlled access to coarse staple grains (corn, sorghum, millet) as distinct from fine grain rice allocations. Yanyuan County sits in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, a mountainous area of southwestern Sichuan with a predominantly Yi ethnic population and historically restricted grain supply chains.
By 1982 the national grain rationing system was already beginning to erode under early agricultural reforms, making county-level stamps from this period transitional artifacts — issued under bureaucratic inertia while the policy ground beneath them was shifting.