Long Qiuying | 龙秋英, 2010

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Long Qiuying (b. 1939) is a resident of Changxing Village, Gaolong Town, Chaling County, Hunan Province. She married a man in Changxing Village in 1959 and gave birth to her first son in 1961. In this interview, Long recalls that people ate tree leaves, tree bark, grass roots, and chaff during the Great Famine, and her husband was once beaten because he stole turnip to eat. Long also mentions how the five black categories ( landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements & rightists) were criticized and beaten during the Cultural Revolution.

龙秋英（1939年生）是湖南省茶陵县高陇镇长兴村村民。她1959年嫁到该村，1961年生下大儿子。在这段口述中，龙老人回忆了大饥荒时期吃树叶、树皮、草根、糠，以及自己老伴偷萝卜吃被打的经历。龙老人还提及文革时期批斗、吊打地富反坏右的情况。

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