Interview with Ye Shiying

Ye Shiying (b.1938) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Ye recollects that, during the Great Famine, people could only get two tablespoons of porridge from the eating hall every day, and ate them with steamed sweet potato slices at home. She also ate many other kinds of famine food and she could hardly find potatoes in the mountains after working for a whole day. Many people starved to death after the communization, including people in the elderly homes and maternities. The production team sprinkled seeds instead of actually planting them; they had no harvest, but reported the opposite to the higher authorities.

叶石英（1938年生）是广东省河源市和平县彭寨镇寨下村村民。叶老人叙述了饥荒期间，人们在食堂里每人只能领两小勺粥，回家蒸番薯片跟粥一起吃。她当时还吃吃糠饼、野菜、山将树叶等等，上山挖一天都挖不到一个薯粮。很多人在公社化期间被饿死，养老院和妇产院也断粮。生产队撒秧，而不插秧，没有收成，却对上级汇报滿产。

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