On the long New Year holidays should the cadre try to stir the peasant from his hearth a hearth and home, he would be met by vacant stares, well-fed grumblings or good-humored hostility.

• 农民在新年要过较长的假期，这时要是有哪个干部想动员农民离开炕头家门，就会碰到白眼，没完没了的嘟囔，或者不满意的怪话。