Fu Youcheng (b. 1934) is a resident of Dazhao Village (Group 3), Chang’an District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. Fu recollects that during the Great Leap Forward, workers were getting less and less food. People grinded corncobs into powder to make steamed buns. At that time, people were sent to different reservoirs and work for work points. During the Production of Iron and Steel, although people were overworking without being fed, they had quite a morale. When there was no harvest later and people were forbidden to grow things on their own, people grew a few radishes. They scrambled for the radishes and cooked soup with radish leaves.
付有成（1934年生）是陕西省西安市长安区大兆乡大兆村东三组村民。 付老人回忆了大跃进期间，工人们越吃越少，把苞谷秆碾碎，做成淀粉蒸馍。那时，实行兵团制，人们去各地修水库，在生产队换工分。 大炼钢铁期间，人们虽然工作负荷过大，吃不饱饭，但是干劲挺足。 后来粮食没产量，又不允许私自种菜，人们只能种点萝卜，抢萝卜吃，用萝卜缨子烧汤喝。
Chang Fufang is a resident of Dazhao Village, Chang’an District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. It was really cold when living in the pit for constructing blast furnace. At that time her family had seven people, and worked like a cattle or a horse for earning work credits.
常福芳是陕西省西安市长安区大兆村的村民。在这段口述中，常老人回忆了大饥荒时的生活。炼钢铁住在窑里很冷。当时一家有七口人，当牛做马地干活、挣工分。
Bo Qingsong (b.1944) is a resident of Dazhao Village, Dazhao County, Chang’an District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. In this interview, Bo recalls experiences during the Great Famine. There was not enough to eat at school and the school organized the search for food. In the winter they still had to construct blast furnace in the river way. All farming work was stopeed, and no one cared for the fields. In the People’s Commune canteen one still needed money to buy food with food tickets.
柏青松1944年出生，是陕西省西安市长安区大兆乡大兆村的村民。在这段口述中，柏老人回忆了大饥荒时期的经历。在学校吃不饱，学校组织着去找吃的。冬天还要下河道炼钢铁。农活都停了，地也没人管。在食堂有粮票也还要用钱买粮食。
Quan Longan is a resident of Dazhao Village, Dazhao County, Chang’an District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. In this interview, Quan recalls life during the Great Famine. At that time food tickets could only exchange for some rotten vegetables, which couldn’t be bought with money. When people went to Xi’an with a bun made with rotten vegetables, they would still worry about being robbed.
权龙安是陕西省西安市长安区大兆乡大兆村的村民。在这段口述中，权老人回忆了大饥荒时的生活。当时粮票只能换到些烂菜，买都买不到，去西安带着烂菜做的馍都怕被抢。
Wang Shuhui is a resident of Dazhao Village, Dazhao County, Chang’an District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. In this interview, Wang remembers life during the Great Famine, especially the eperience of constructing blast furnace and the food people ate.
王淑慧是陕西省西安市长安区大兆乡大兆村的村民。在这段口述中，王老人回忆了大饥荒时的生活， 特别是炼钢铁的经历和吃的食物。
Du Zhixin (b. 1933) is a resident of Dazhao Village (Group 8), Chang’an District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. During the 1958 Production of Iron and Steel, people of all kinds were soaked in the river panning for iron. Iron sand was sent to iron and steel department to be refined into iron nails. Everyone was occupied with iron and steel and none was farming. Every Production Team had a communal canteen and every stove served more than one hundred people, who competed for food. After the Campaign of People’s Communes, people lived on Production Teams, where there was no food but corn husks and bran. People who worked overtime could only have thin corn porridge.
杜志新（1933年生）是陕西省西安市长安区大兆乡大兆村8组村民。58年大炼钢铁，男女老少整天在水里泡着浪沙，把铁砂送到钢铁司炼成铁钉子。全村人都去炼钢铁，没人种地。 每个生产队办一个大食堂，一个灶供一百多个人吃饭，大家抢饭吃。公社化以后人们靠生产队生活，但生产队没有粮食，只能提供苞谷皮、苞谷壳，加班劳动也只能吃稀苞谷粥。
Fu Chengxin (b. 1928) is a resident of Dazhao Village (Group 7), Chang’an District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. After the installation of communal canteens, people began to eat chopped corncobs. They made buns out of what came from washed corn husks, and everyone was limited to have only one of these. Fu’s family did not have enough food and often borrowed food from others. The people in the Production Team were of different minds and did not produce an enough harvest. After lands were redistributed to households, life started to get better.
付诚信（1928年生）是陕西省长安区大兆乡大兆村村民。付老人回忆了食堂化以后，把苞谷芯芯子削了拌着吃，把苞谷皮放在锅里洗，用洗出来的脏东西蒸馍，每次一个人还只能吃一个馍。老人家里食物不够吃，经常找人借。生产队人心不齐，生产的粮食不够。 后来土地完全下户以后，生活 就一年比一年好了。
Liu Zhiyun (b.1938) ) is a resident of Dazhao Village (Group 7), Chang’an District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. In 1958, during the Production of Iron and Steel, most people were working in the rivers and only a few people were left home to deal with corns and make corn porridge, and deliver the porridage to the river twice a day. People did not have fertilizers, so they pulled down houses and kangs (heated brick beds) and turned them into fertilizers. Before the Cultural Revolution, there was a socialization Education Campaign. Every team was divided into three groups to do four clean-ups. People who sold things were accused of speculating Rebel and royalists created much chaos. The royalists robbed the commune of everything. Commune members had many meetings, every morning and evening, asking for instructions and reports and reciting Chairman Mao’s quotations. During the Cultural Revolution, four landlords were confisticated, but only robes and clogs for bound feet were found.
柳志云（1938年生）是陕西省西安市长安区大兆乡大兆村村民。1958年的时候大炼钢铁，大多数人都在河里站着，家里留少数人剥苞谷，剥了皮的苞谷做成苞米粥，送到河道离去，一天两顿。那时候田里没有肥料，他们就把房子和炕拆了，当成肥料。文化大革命前有“社教运动”（社会主义教育运动），一个队住三个工作组，进行“四不清”，自己卖东西叫做“投机倒把”。文化大革命分为造反派和保皇派，使整个村子陷入混乱。保皇派来把公社里的东西抢光了。 社员经常开会， 早请示晚汇报，背毛主席语录。文化大革命的时候，队里有四家地主被抄家，屋子里只搜出一些袍子和缠小脚的人穿的木地鞋。
Zha Wenfang (b. 1932) is a resident of Dazhao Village (Group 7), Chang’an District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. She recollects that during the period of Iron and Steel Production, the porridge at communal canteens was so watery that one could see one’s own reflection in it. People were wearing ragged clothes—even their best clothes were patched. Every day before sunrise, Zha moved feces with wheelbarrows, so that she could eat buns afterwards. Based on how much feces she moved, she got work points and, in turn, food. People had no money to visit doctors when they got sick and mostly died before long.
查文芳（1932年生）是陕西省西安市长安区大兆乡大兆村西七组村民。查老人回忆了大炼钢铁期间吃不饱饭，去食堂领苞谷粥，粥稀得能看到人的倒影。当时人们穿的是烂粗布，最好的衣服也打过补丁。老人每天天没亮就起来用推车推粪，为了换馍吃，按粪的多少换工分，再换工分粮。当时生病的人都没钱看病，纷纷病死。
Wang Shufang (b.1941) is a resident of Dazhao Village, Dazhao County, Chang’an District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. In this interview, Wang recalls life during the Great Famine. In 1958, she got married and came here, and went constructing blast furnace in the later half of the year. In 1960 she was pregnant but still had to work all day, and ended up having a miscarriage. At that time both food and clothes were lacking, the government only provided food for the animals, which could not be distributed to the Commune members.
王淑芳1941年出生，是陕西省西安市长安区大兆乡大兆村的村民。在这段口述中，王老人回忆了大饥荒时的生活。她1958年嫁过来，下半年去炼钢铁。1960年怀了孩子还成天干活，结果小产了。那时缺吃缺穿，国家只给牲口供应粮食，不能分给社员。
Chen Xiuxian (b.1944) is a resident of Dazhao Village (Group 7), Chang’an District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. In 1958, Chen was in elementary school and every day after school, worked in the farm, panning for iron and steel in the river and deliver them. In winter, standing in the water with winnowing fans has left Chen with several sequelae. At night, they slept at kilns. Chen’s parents were repairing the Xitong Road. Chen and her mother were also babysitting others’ children. Chen’s mother, with her bound feet, needed to look after children after work. When panning iron and steel, people wasted much food and ran out of food in 1960. Children did not have inner clothings and were covered by layers of old clothes.
陈秀贤（1944年生）陕西省西安市长安区大兆乡七组村民。1958年的时候老人在上小学，放学以后锄地、在河里浪钢铁、送钢铁。冬天站在水里拿簸箕淘沙子，留下了很多后遗症。天黑了就住在窑里。陈老人的父母在修路，陈老人和母亲还都给别人照顾过孩子。母亲裹着小脚，工作完还要照顾家里的孩子们。58年浪钢铁的时候浪费了很多粮食，到60年就没东西吃了。冬天里孩子没内衬的衣服穿，只能把旧衫衣服都叠在身上。
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