Yang Houxin | 杨厚新, 2010

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Yang Houxin (b. 1948) is a resident of Diaoyutai Village, Yindian Town, Suizhou City, Hubei Province. His father died before his birth, he lived with his mother and an older sister, who got married during the Great Famine. Yang and his mother fed on tree bark and wild herbs. This difficult situation did not change until the second half of 1961.

杨厚新（1948年生）是湖北省随州市殷店镇钓鱼台村村民。杨老人出生之前父亲就已经去世, 他与母亲和一个姐姐相依为命。大饥荒时期姐姐出嫁, 杨老人与母亲吃树皮、野菜为生。这种状况直到1961年下半年才开始得到缓解。

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