Interview with Zeng Linjian

Zeng Linjian (b.1931) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. As he recounts, after the communization, people ran out of food, and had to ate unpalatable leaves and had potato vines in place of tea. An old lady in the village carried a cage for chicken to steal wheats from the production team’s fields; her aunt at home wanted to remarry someone for food. Zeng’s father as well as her first and second husbands were all starved to death. In the family, she is the only senior alive now.

曾林俭(1931年生)是广东省河源市和平县彭寨镇寨下村村民。据老人回忆，公社化之后，粮食缺乏，人们把某种难闻的树叶当成吃食，还把番薯藤叶晒干当茶水喝。村里有一位婆婆曾经拿着鸡笼去生产队的田地里偷谷穗吃，而她家里的大娘因为没有食物，一心想要改嫁。曾老人的父亲、两任丈夫都在那几年被饿死了。时至今日，家中那代人只剩下她一个了。

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