In the last years of Chongzhen, locusts and droughts occurred in Henan and Shandong. After the root bark was eaten clean, there was a phenomenon of cannibalism. At that time, women and children were tied up and sold in the market, and they were called "vegetarians". After the butcher bought it, he slaughtered and sold meat like cattle and sheep to make money.

A young man surnamed Zhou went to a restaurant in xian county, Hebei. The boss said, the meat is sold out. Please wait a moment. Soon, he dragged two women to the kitchen and told his host Fu Shuo, "The guest has been waiting for a long time, so he got a hoof." With a terrible cry, a woman's arm was cut off. The man surnamed Zhou felt unbearable and bought a healthy woman to go home as his wife. The other couldn't live because of bleeding, so he had to end his life with a knife. We don't know whether we ate it or not.

This bloody text, of course, is just a story in the note. But the story told in this passage is not necessarily without the shadow of reality. In the long history, the real history of cannibalism is not absurd. Scholar Morrow once wrote a book called Crying for Happiness, some of which were about cannibalism.

Eating the same food is also common in ancient history and literary works. Like the story of Mr. and Mrs. Sun Erniang opening a pork bun shop, not all of them happened during the Great Famine. It should be noted that the economic situation of the Northern Song Dynasty and the later Southern Song Dynasty was not the worst (the worst should be Wei and Jin Dynasties). The written record of "two-legged sheep" began from that era.