Interview with Jia Zhijie

Jia Zhijie (b. 1940) is a resident of Jimingqiao Village, Baiyun Town, Shimen County, Hunan Province. In this interview, Jia recalls how the local leaders mobilized villagers to construct the Heping Reservoir while stripping to the waist in the winter of 1959, and how the bones of some villagers’ ancestors, were digged out of the tombs and boiled with dead dogs to make farming fertilizer in 1959, when the field output was decreasing. Jia also talks about how he, as the manager of the people’s commune canteen, caught some villagers stealing the canteen’s vegetables and staple food.

贾之杰（1940年生）是湖南省石门县白云乡鸡鸣桥村村民。在这段口述中，贾老人回忆了1959年冬天当地干部号召村民赤膊上阵修和平水库，1959年农业减产后挖村民祖坟、打狗后熬骨头做成肥料种田的情况。贾老人还讲述了自己担任公社食堂事务长期间抓到偷食堂蔬菜和饭的村民。

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