佃农 (diàn nóng) — tenant farmer; sharecropper

Definition

佃农 (diànnóng) is a historical term for a farmer who rents land from a landlord and pays rent or a share of the crop — used in historical, literary, and political-economy contexts, not in everyday modern speech.

noun

tenant farmersharecropper

Measure word · 个

Examples

，佃农。
Zài gǔ dài, diàn nóng yào xiàng dì zhǔ jiāo zū.
In ancient times, tenant farmers had to pay rent to the landlord.
佃农。
Zhè xiē diàn nóng de shēng huó fēi cháng jiān kǔ.
The lives of these tenant farmers were very hard.
，佃农。
Gǎi gé hòu, diàn nóng biàn chéng le tǔ dì de zhǔ rén.
After the reform, tenant farmers became the owners of the land.

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