Interview with Huang Qiu

Guangdong Province. After the communization, the commune had several eating halls in the area and that was when people start to get hungry. Even when someone was celebrating a baby after being born twenty days, people could only get sweet potato porridge. After year, they lost their own field and had to get food from the production team based on the number of their family members. They also brought their children everywhere to attend the commune’s meetings.

黄秋（ 1927年生） 是广东省河源市和平县彭寨镇寨下村村民。公社化以后，几个食堂集体煮饭吃，人们就开始挨饿了，就算有孩子满二十天办酒席，大家也只能吃番薯粥。一年后他们耕的田给没收了，只能去生产队按人口称粮食。他们还背着小孩到处去开公社化的会议。

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