Liu Zhengying | 刘正英, 2012

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Liu Zhengying (b. 1945) is a resident of Diaoyutai Village, Yindian Town, Suizhou City, Hubei Province. Liu's mother died of disease when she was less than one year old, and her father raised her while remained single. This interview was co-completed by Zhang Mengqi and Liu's grandson, Zou Xue song, who was a first-year middle school student. In this interview, Liu recounts in detail how she cooked wild herbs, tree bark, plant leaves, and chaff to survive famine in 1959, and how she made sweets by barley sugar and peanuts in 1961. In 1959, when the famine was most serious, Liu went to the local leaders' conference location to stole food, which were cooked for the leaders, and then distribute them to her family and neighbors. This starving situation did not change until 1962, when People's Commune finished.

刘正英（1945年生）是湖北省随州市殷店镇钓鱼台村村民。刘老人的母亲生下她不到一年就因病去世, 父亲独自把她抚养成人。该采访由章梦奇和被采访人的孙子——初一学生邹雪松——共同完成。在这段口述中, 刘老人详细介绍了1959年饥饿时期用于果腹的野草、树皮、植物叶子、糠等的烹饪方法, 以及1961年左右自己用大麦做糖、跟花生一起做成糖果吃的经历。1959年最为饥饿的时候, 刘老人到干部们开会吃饭的地点偷饭, 带回家给家人和邻居吃。这种饥饿的状况直到1962年人民公社食堂结束, 才稍有改变。

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