Interview with Du Shengfa

Du Shengfa (b. 1937) is a resident of Jiaqiao Village Group 4, Zhangcun Town, Dengzhou City, Henan Province. He is also the grandfather of the interviewer Du Guan. Nobody died in Du’s village during the Famine. When eating at communal canteens, one family only got one ladle of rice. Adults drank some thin porridge and children got something thicker. People were too hungry to even walk, so they sat on something pulled by cows when working in the field. Fortunately, their village had a vegetable garden. Other villages could only feed on wild plants. Du was a canteen accountant at Sanwuzhang and had some food at hand. Du’s cousin brought a woman to him for food and Du gave her a pan of sweet potatoes. The woman, who fled here out of hunger, refused to leave after this. She later became Du’s cousin’s wife.

杜胜发（1937年生）是河南省邓州市张村镇贾桥村四组村民，采访人杜冠的爷爷。杜老人的村子在饥荒期间没有饿死人。吃食堂的时候，一家三口一顿可以领一瓢饭，稠的给孩子吃，大人喝点稀汤。人们饿得走不动路，去地里干活都坐在坨子上，让牛拖着走。他们村子里还好有个菜园，其它地方主要吃各种野草。老人当时在三五张当食堂会计，手里有些吃的东西。杜冠的表爷爷带了一个逃荒的女人来杜老人这里要了一筛子红薯吃，后来这个女人就不愿离开，成为了杜冠的表奶奶。

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