星火

1957年，一批被打成右派的兰州大学师生，被送到甘肃农村进行劳动改造。他们在那目睹了大跃进的荒唐和大饥荒饿殍遍野的惨烈，其中几个人自发办了一个地下刊物《星火》，记录农村的浮夸、贫困和饥饿，成为大饥荒时期留下的唯一民间思想刊物。这些人在后来多被处以重刑，有数人在文革时被枪决。

Sparks of Fire is the only extant unofficial intellectual periodical from the time of the Great Famine. In the end, 43 people, including the Rightist teachers and students who were connected with the publication, the peasants and the rural cadres who sympathised with them, were arrested and given long prison terms. Among them, three key figures were executed during the Cultural Revolution.