Interview with Tan Chagu

Tan Chagu (b. 1938) is a resident of Changxing Village, Gaolong Town, Chaling County, Hunan Province. When she was five, Tan was abandoned by her mother, and was later adopted by a family in Changxing Village. In this interview, Tan recalls that she went to Jiangxi Province to move iron pipes and charcoal, constructed blast furnace at night, and raised pigs at a pig farm in 1958. Tan also talks about how she cooked tree leaves, tree bark, tree roots, wild herbs, as well as chaff, and how an old man in the village died of constipation because of eating chaff during the Great Famine.

谭茶姑（1938年生）是湖南省茶陵县高陇镇长兴村村民。她五岁时被母亲遗弃，后被长兴村的一户村民收养。在这段口述中，谭老人讲述了1958年大炼钢铁到江西担铁管和木炭、夜里出工炼铁、和在养猪场养猪的经历。谭老人还回忆了大饥荒时期烹饪树根、草根、树皮、野草、糠等的方法，以及村里一位老人吃糠排便困难涨死的情况。

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