Interview with Huang Guo

Huang Guo (b.1926) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. After the communization, people could only buy bad sweet potatoes, which tasted terrible. When running out of sweet potatoes, people started to use dried sweet potatoes vines to make porridge. Ye’s mother, after eating the porridge, had a swollen stomach and soon died. They also ate beans. Ye’s son was so starved that he could not stop crying; he also had diarrhea overnight after having bean leaves. When Ye reaped crops, she secretly hid many crops in her pants’ pockets, because only the stolen food truly belonged to her. Her husband once stole two sweet potatoes, got revealed and lost two days of food.

黄果（1926年生）是广东省河源市和平县彭寨镇寨下村村民。公社化的时候， 只能去买苦味的烂番薯吃。后来番薯吃完了，就晒干番薯叶煮粥喝，而老人的母亲因为吃这个， 肚子肿起来，被胀死了。后来老人家种黄豆吃，她的儿子饿得大哭，吃黄豆叶，结果一夜拉肚子。 收割谷子的时候，由于割到再多也是公家的，偷到才是自己的，老人利用各种借口把谷子偷偷放进裤兜。老人的丈夫曾经偷了两条番薯，被发现后，被扣了两天的粮食。

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