Interview with Ye Yaolang

Ye Yaolang (b.19383) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Ye learned tailoring with his father after elementary school and then taught himself painting bed boards. He went to places to paint boards to escape the Great Famine. Ye recollects that, during the Great Leap Forward, the production team planted crops on two sides of the road just to impress their leaders, and used soil to fake fertilizers. The production team also spilled too many crop seeds and gained no harvest. They put layers of sweet potato vines on the field, which did not lead to more sweet potatoes at all.

叶耀浪（ 1938年生）是广东省河源市和平县彭寨镇寨下村村民。他读完小学后跟着父亲学裁缝，然后又自学画床板画，走村过县到别人家里画床板画，借此在三年饥荒中没有过分挨饿。老人回忆，大跃进期间，生产队在公路两边种东西给领导看，用田泥假装在公路边堆肥。生产队把谷种满田撒下去，秧船日夜播种，不过这样却反而颗粒无收。 而在番薯田放了十几层番薯藤叶，也根本种不出更多的番薯。

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