Interview with Jia Fuyong

Jia Fuyong (b. 1927) is a resident of Yangjiazhuang Village, Hebei Province. In this interview, Jia talks about the life during the Japanese occupation, the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution. The Japanese arrived in the village in 1937 and stayed for 8 years. Later Jia was forced to join the army when he was still a teenager. During the Great Famine, people ate whatever they could find. In the campaign of “Destroy the Four Olds” during the Cultural Revolution, the birth certificates of Jia’s family were accidentally burned, together with books of classical literature.

贾夫勇1927年出生，是河北省衡水杨家庄村村民。在这段口述中，贾老人讲述了解放前日本人占领时的生活，以及大饥荒和文革时期的经历。日本人1937年到的村里，待了8年。贾老人十几岁就被拉去当兵。大饥荒时，村民找到什么就吃什么。文革时除四旧，烧古书时贾老人家连出生证明都给误烧了。

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