Interview with Jia Yuzhen

Jia Yuzhen (b.1940) is a resident of Jiaqiao Village Group 4, Zhangcun Town, Dengzhou City, Henan Province. Jia recollects that people were so hungry that they caught rats for food. They sneakily picked up hyacinth beans that had been thrown away. A daughter of some family died and people didn’t know how to deal with the body, so they put it in an empty sweet potato vault. An old person was too hungry to walk and died while eating a sweet potato he picked up in the field. When eating in communal canteens, old people secretly cooked at night. One of Jianwaer’s little pigs died and they ate it even when the pork was still raw.

贾玉珍（1940年生）是河南省邓州市张村镇贾桥村四组村民。贾老人回忆了当时人们太饿的时候，抓老鼠吃，偷偷捡别人家不要的扁豆吃。有家女儿死了，却无法处理，于是死人就放到了空着的红薯窖里。有个老人，饿得走不动路，到红薯地里看到一个红薯，吃了几口就死了。吃大锅饭的时候，老人家晚上偷偷烧东西吃。检娃儿他家有只小猪死了，于是烧猪肉，猪肉没熟也吃了。

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