Interview with Zhou Huodi

Zhou Huodi (b.1932) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. During the three years of the Great Famine, Zhou’s husband sold vats to get potatoes, corns and wheat. She once lived on just rice, not suffering too much from the hunger. Afterwards, people got so hungry that they started stealing food. Zhou ate pork out of a dead pig, which made her out of milk, and her less-than-one-year-old daughter starved to death as a result. Many people died back then, including Zhou’s Uncle and mother; people refused to help burying her mother’s body unless they were given food in return.

周火娣（1932年生）是广东省河源市和平县彭寨镇寨下村村民。 在“三年饥饿” 中，她的丈夫卖缸换番薯片、粟米和麦子（不去卖缸就要被扣公分），她曾一日三顿干饭吃到饱，竟然没太挨饿。 后来，人们饥饿难耐只能偷食物吃。周老人在生下一女后，吃了死猪肉，导致未满周岁的女儿没奶喝，被饿死了。那几年间，多人饿死，包括老人的大爷和母亲，而人们一定要吃了东西才肯帮忙埋葬她母亲的尸体。

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