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From the first to the fifth month of the 19th year , there was a severe famine in the capital . One ding of silver could only buy eight dou of rice . The dead were innumerable . Citizen Liu Wu of Tongzhou killed and ate his own son .
From the first to the fifth month of the 19th year , there was a severe famine in the capital . One ding of silver could only buy eight dou of rice . The dead were innumerable . Citizen Liu Wu of Tongzhou killed and ate his own son .
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Throughout all commanderies of the southern metropolitan area there were severe famines . Fathers and sons ate each other . Those who had starved to death along the roads lay within eyesight of one another . The stench spread out 1,000 ...
Throughout all commanderies of the southern metropolitan area there were severe famines . Fathers and sons ate each other . Those who had starved to death along the roads lay within eyesight of one another . The stench spread out 1,000 ...
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In the 27th year there was a famine in Nanle . People ate each other . ( p . 1654 ) 0 1857 七年春,肥城、東平大饑,死者枕藉;魚台、日照、臨亦饑,人相食。 In the spring of the seventh year there was a severe famine in Feicheng and Dongping .
In the 27th year there was a famine in Nanle . People ate each other . ( p . 1654 ) 0 1857 七年春,肥城、東平大饑,死者枕藉;魚台、日照、臨亦饑,人相食。 In the spring of the seventh year there was a severe famine in Feicheng and Dongping .
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