In some places, people ate the feces of silkworms;in other places, they ate a queer white earth.But such food could only stave off starvation for a few days and the victims quickly died.

• 有些地方，饥民以蚕粪当粮，还有的地方人们甚至吃观音土充饥，吞食这种泥土的人，也苟延残喘不了几天。