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When her parents were taken away, she, her siblings and their grandmother were left to fend for themselves. They survived on pumpkin flowers and weeds picked from the mountains. At one point, they resorted to eating Can Xue's father's old clothes, including a fur coat. Her grandmother, who fell ill from overwork and starvation, later died of an oedema.