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The History of Mud in China
When nothing else was left, people turned to a soft mud called Guanyin soil. Once eaten, the soil acted like cement, drying out the stomach and absorbing all the moisture inside the intestinal tract. In every village, several people died a painful death, their colons blocked up with soil. All over China, from Sichuan, Gansu, Anhui to Henan, people tormented by ravening hunger, turned to mud. Some people also began eating human flesh. Dakota suggests that this may have occurred as early as 1958,. And it became a practice that appeared in every region that became decimated by starvation.
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