Archaeo-Histories on Nostr: People scaring sparrows during the Four Pests Campaign; Summer Palace, Beijing, ...

People scaring sparrows during the Four Pests Campaign; Summer Palace, Beijing, China, circa 1958.

The Four Pests campaign was one of the first actions taken in the Great Leap Forward in China from 1958 to 1962. The four pests to be eliminated were rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. The extermination of sparrows resulted in severe ecological imbalance, being one of the causes of the Great Chinese Famine.

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