As they farmed together, no one wanted to work hard, so they only got little productionproduced a little.

Therefore, they often suffered from starvation.

On one day in 1979, eighteen families got together to discuss how to distribute their land to each family and farm separately.

You know China is a socialist country and the Chinese government saw this deedact as a capitalist practicone.

The 18 people knew that their behavior was dangerous, so they did thait secretly and reached an agreement that if one of them was arrested because of this, other people should raise his children until the children were 18 years old.

The Chinese saying is: to drink water, one monk uses his shoulders, one shoulder pole and two buckets to get water,; two monks use one carrying pole and one bucket to carry water,; three monks never have water.

After they harvested their crops, they distributed the grains to each family.

“Grains” is possible if you there were many kinds of grain, but “grain” is more natural and works regardless of how many kinds of grain there were.

As they farmed together, no one wanted to work hard, so they (only) got little (production) output.

I would omit “only” because “little” conveys this idea well enough on its own, and “production” because it’s not needed.

Therefore, they often suffered (from) starvation | they often starved.

(On) one day in 1979, eighteen families got together to discuss how to distribute their land to each family and farm separately.

It would sound more natural without “on” since the specific day that it happened “on” isn’t important.

You know China is a socialist country and the Chinese government saw this deed as a capitalist practice.

The 18 people knew that their behavior was dangerous, so they did thatis secretly and reached an agreement that if one of them was arrested because of this, the other people should raise his children until the children were 18 years old.

Xiaogang village, in Fengyang County, is very famous because of this event.

Your original isn’t wrong, my correction just makes it sound more natural.

The Chinese saying is: to drink water, one monk uses his shoulder, one shoulder pole and two buckets to get water, two monks use one carrying pole and one bucket to carry water, and three monks never have water.

This makes a lot of sense! Could you tell me how this saying is said in Chinese?

After they harvested the crops, they distributed the grains to each family.

AsBecause they farmed together, no one wanted to work hard, so they only got little productionproduced very little.

ThereforeAs a result, they often suffer starvationed.

I think "as a result" is a bit more natural here; "therefore" is used more to mark steps of an argument.

At that time, this deed was totally against China's agricultural policies.

YouAs you might know, China is a socialist country and the Chinese government saw this deedas as capitalist practice.

"Deed" is not very often used in English. You can do a good deed, you can get a deed to your house, but other than that it's not very commonly used. In your sentence, you can simply say "this" to refer to what the villagers did.

The 18 people knew that their behaviorwhat they did was dangerous, so they did thatkept their private farming secretly, and reached an agreement that if one of them was arrested because of this, other people, the others should raise his children until the children were 18 years old.y turned 18.

The Chinese saying is: to drink water, one monk uses his shoulder, one shoulder pole and two buckets to get water, two monks use one carrying pole and one bucket to carry water, three monks never have water.

I'm not entirely clear on the meaning of this saying...perhaps you can add a few lines explaining it to your text.