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Ye Qing (b.1946) recollects that the backyard furnace movement and three years of natural disaster resulted in the famine. People were forced to leave their village to beg.

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Ye Rijin (b.1938) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. After the communization, the commune claimed that they had a harvest of 100 thousand jin per acre. Many people died of hunger. For instance, Ye Zuoxing went to the eating hall to fetch porridge for his mother, but could not help eating all of it on his way home. His mother died afterwards. People ate all kinds of famine foods and either died of sickness or starvation. Since Ye went to the mining field to work and sold Chinese pancakes on the street, he did not suffer much hunger. During the Cultural Revolution, Ye was a Red Guard. He also remembers that many educated youths from the city came to live with the villagers. The transcript of this interview has been translated into English.

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Synopsis of the play based on the original by Federico Garcia Lorca.

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Ye Shengbing (b.1931) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. His mother died in 1960 after eating some wild plants, which made her body swelling. Ye worked in a mining factory from the 1970s to the 1990s, when the factory went bankrupt. His job was to nail screws to machines. He worked in a dusty environment, which hurt his brain; he also had leg problems because of that job. Since he was working for a commune, he has no pension right now; the government also does not give him any subsidies.

Ye Shengcuo (b.1934) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. He recollects many people that died in the Great Famine.|叶升错（1934年生）是广东省河源市和平县彭寨镇寨下村村民。他回忆了很多三年饥饿中死亡的人。 Zeng Linjian (b.1931) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. As he recounts, after the communization, people ran out of food, and had to ate unpalatable leaves and had potato vines in place of tea. An old lady in the village carried a cage for chicken to steal wheats from the production team's fields; her aunt at home wanted to remarry someone for food. Zeng's father as well as her first and second husbands were all starved to death. In the family, she is the only senior alive now.

Ye Shengji (b.1927) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. He started to sell vats as a teenager and worked in a production team. Ye recollects that in the days of communization, people ate in a big hall, and many foods were wasted. Running out of food, the team asked people to find food on their own. Ye walked to Qingzhou to sell vats and started to exchange vats for a sleeping bed or potato slices. Once, Qingzhou's soldiers got him and confiscated his food, because selling vats is not approved. Ye still sold vats after he turned 85 years old as a habit, though he couldn't sell many. His main income is his offspring's red packets of money at festivals.

Ye Shengpeng (b.1942) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. He recollects many people's dates of death. Not that many people in the village died, because they hid food at home. Their food was never found, so they did not suffer that much hunger as other places.

Missing numbers 6, 40.

Missing 51, 53, 73, 80-82, 85.

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