Wei Quanying | 魏全英, 2010

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Wei Quanying (b.1926) was born in Changxing Village, Gaolong Town, Chaling County, Hunan Province. Wei recollects her constipation after eating bran dumplings during the Great Famine—she bleeded in the bathroom. She says that her child was looking for sweet potatoes left in the field and was criticized into tears by their team leader. Wei was once sent to Jinggangshan to bring back the run-aways. Because of her constipation, she could not sit on her way there. She stood on the bus all the way there.

魏全英1926年出生于湖南省株洲市茶陵县高陇镇长兴村。魏老人回忆了大饥荒期间吃了糠饺以后便秘,上厕所的时候满地是血。老人的孩子在红薯地里找剩下的红薯根,被队长骂哭。魏老人当时曾被村书记叫去井冈山领逃荒的人回来,因为便秘,老人在车上也不能坐下,只能一路站着过去。

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