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    When I was young, I experienced a period of life under the "People's Commune" system. At that time, land had not yet been allocated to individual households, and rural areas were organized around production teams as the basic unit. I remember the white, water-filled fields of the production team, where fields of water chestnuts (bíqì, one of the "Eight Immortals of Water") and arrowhead (cígū) plants grew in abundance. Water chestnuts, a shallow-water herbaceous plant from the sedge family..