>>189976792] ‘The late Lu Nianzu, once a doctor of traditional medicine in Tongwei County, recalled that at the end of the lunar year in 1959, his aunt took her daughter down by the brook in search of human flesh…She cooked a human leg for her dying husband, but he couldn’t bear to eat it and waved her away. The moment she brought it out of the living room, several people who had been drawn by the aroma of cooked meat snatched it right from her hands. A few days later, Lu’s aunt disappeared, and eventually a pair of bound human feet, in shoes recognized as hers, were found on a ridge behind the village.
‘…A man from Jichuan Commune who had been sent away to work heard of the famine back home and sent his family ration coupons for more than five kilos of grain. After buying some flour, his wife returned home and locked the door. When several days passed without anyone leaving or entering the house, some villagers jumped over the wall and found the starved corpses of several children inside. The woman, however, had disappeared, and no one could learn what had become of her. In the early 1970s the facts came to light. The woman had abandoned her children and run off, but before she left the village boundary, someone had killed and eaten her. An investigation was carried out, but the suspected murderer had died by then.’”
