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3 Shi Jin - Hunan Province Food Stamp
| Issuer | Hunan Province Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Size | 77 x 31 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 湖南省购粮券 3 参市斤 1978 (Translation: Hunan Province food purchase coupon 3 Shi Jin (1.5 Kilograms)) |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 1. 凭本券在全省范围内，可购买粮食及粮食制成品。 2. 本券购粮时不配给食油。 3. 本券严禁买卖，塗改无效，遗失不补。 (Translation: (Instruction) 1) This coupon is only redeemable within the province. Can purchase food and processed food products. 2) This coupon will not supply cooking oil. 3) This coupon should not be sold; non-redeemable if changed/damaged; non-reissue if lost) |
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Chinese provincial food stamps (liangpiao) were administered through a national rationing system that had been in place since 1955, tying grain allocations to household registration. Hunan Province issued its own regional stamps valid only within provincial borders — a traveler crossing into another province needed to exchange them for national-issue coupons at the local grain bureau, a bureaucratic friction deliberately built into the system to control population movement.
The 3 shi jin denomination covers a unit of measurement that was itself a political compromise: the "market jin" (市斤), standardized at 500 grams in 1959, replacing older regional weight variations.