Interview with Huang Qingyun

Huang Qingyun (b. 1940) is a resident of Renjiagou Village, Shaanxi Province. In this interview, Huang talks about the situation during the Great Famine and the villagers who died of starvation. In 1958, all the villagers who were capable of working were transferred to different places to participate in production. When eating at the communal canteen, because there was no enough food, Huang had to eat tree roots, wild vegetables and mung bean shells, no matter how awful they tasted awful. When Huang got married in 1959, she didn’t even have a piece of new clothes. Nor did her family have food to treat the guests. When she was pregnant, she still had to work. In one month after giving birth to her kid, she went back to work at the production team. The cadres were all very cruel and no one dared to disobey them.

黄青云1940年出生，是陕西省商洛市商南县城关镇任家沟村石门组村民。在这段口述中，黄老人讲述了大饥荒时的情况和饿死的村民。58年的时候，凡是有劳动力的村民都被调走参加生产。吃食堂的时候粮食不够，黄老人只能吃树根、野菜、绿豆壳等，虽然难吃，但不得不吃。黄老人59年结婚时连新衣服都没有，也没有吃的招待客人。怀孕的时候也得干活，月子刚做完就又回生产队干活。当时生产队的干部都非常凶狠，没有村民敢反抗他们。

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