Interview with An Zhuanzai

An Zhuanzai (b. 1937), who worked as accountant of the production team, is a resident of Changxing Village, Gaolong Town, Chaling County, Hunan Province. In this interview, An recalls how people ate tree leaves, tree bark, tree roots, wild herbs, as well as chaff because of severe food shortage, how an old man in the village died of constipation because of eating chaff, and how people escaped from the nearby You County to Chaling County because of the famine. An also mentions that the women villagers were infertile in 1960 because they were exhausted by doing hard labor of carrying iron pipes from Jiangxi Province day and night.

安转仔（1937年）是湖南省茶陵县高陇镇长兴村村民，大饥荒期间曾在生产队担任会计。在这段口述中，安老人讲述了1960年粮食匮乏、人们吃树叶、树皮、树根、野草、糠等充饥，同村的一个老头吃糠、排便困难涨死的情况，以及隔壁攸县的人逃荒到茶陵县的情况。另外，安老人还提及1960年期间村里女人也要夜以继日到江西担铁管，过度劳累以致没有生育的情况。

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