Interview with Shen Nianshen

Shen Nianshen recalled that cooking pots and pans at home were all taken to be melted at village's iron furnace. The village canteen only had soup to serve people and only one spoon for each person at meal time. People tried to find anything to eat like kaolin clay and tree truck skins. People all starved. They were skinny with big belly and growling stomach. Some starved to death. Theings were not as strict in her parents' village so her family had a small vegetable garden and they survived the famine.

沈年申说大办钢铁时，家里的锅灶都拆走了。食堂开饭时每人只有一瓢粥，人们到各种东西来果腹包括观音土和树皮。人们都饿成皮包骨，大肚子，到哪都是肚子咕噜咕噜的响，有人饿死。沈老人娘家的村子(枫树下)管得松些，能种点菜，家里没人饿死。

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