我们商水县地处豫东平原,有十五个公社、一个农场,四百零三个大队,四千四百零六个生产队,十五万六千多户,八十万人,一百四十三万亩耕地,地势低洼,境内有五湖十八坡,是历史上有名的老灾县。解放前,十年九灾,疫情严重,群众流传着“麦茬烂,没好汉,大人小孩病一遍”的辛酸歌谣。在反动统治阶级的残酷压迫、剥削下,广大贫下中农和劳动人民贫病交加,成千上 Our Shangshui County is located in the Eastern Henan Plain, with 15 communes, a farm, 403 brigades, 4,406 production teams, 156,000 households, and 800,000 people. There are 1.43 million mu of arable land and low-lying land. There are 18 lakes and 5 lakes in the territory, making it a famous disaster-ridden county. Before the liberation, nine decennial disasters caused serious epidemics, and the masses circulated a bitter song with “Mill smashed, no good man, adults and children sick again”. Under the brutal oppression and exploitation of the reactionary ruling class, the majority of the poor and middle-aged farmers and the working people have become poor and sick.