Interview with Zhu Shunlian

Zhu Shunlian (b. 1937) was born in Zhushan County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, and moved to Diaoyutai Village (Yindian Town, Suizhou City, Hubei Province) in 1988. Her husband was once the production team leader. In this interview, Zhu recalls that she and her husband worked at Zhushan mine and ate at the People's Commune canteen in 1959. The food available in the canteen and households included buckwheat, corn flour, grass root, rice chaff, tree leaves, chingma abutilon seed and wild walnut, as well as a mixture made of soy milk, pumpkin leaves, string bean leaves, potato leaves and wild plants. Zhu also remembers that some people from Sichuan escaped to Hubei because of the famine.

朱顺莲（1937年生）出生于湖北省十堰市竹山县, 1988年搬迁到湖北省随州市殷店镇钓鱼台村。朱老人的丈夫年轻时当过生产队长。在这段口述中, 朱老人讲述了自己和丈夫59年跟随生产队在竹山矿场劳动和吃食堂的故事。当地人在集体食堂和家里吃花荞、苞谷面、草头木根、花米糠、桐柏树叶子、茼麻籽和野核桃, 以及在家用黄豆豆浆、南瓜叶子、四季豆叶子、土豆叶子、野菜打锅渣吃。另外, 朱老人还回忆有四川人逃荒到湖北。

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