河曲沙泉公社,历史上人少地多,广种薄收,耕作粗放,因而,形成少草、缺料、没柴烧和打粮不多的贫困景象。群众说过去的沙泉是:“山峁和尚头,遍地珠网沟,水土顺坡流。”“河曲穷、保德穷,最 Hequ sand spring commune, the history of a small number of people, a wide variety of thin harvest, extensive farming, thus forming a grass, lack of material, not firewood and food poverty is not much. The masses said the sand springs in the past are: “Shanty monk head, everywhere bead network ditch, water and soil smooth slope flow.” "Meander poor, poor morality, the most