20世纪20年代末,绥远发生了历史上罕见的严重旱灾,灾民人数占当时人口的70%以上。在政府和社会救助力度不足的情况下,为了度过饥荒,灾民们采取了不同的自救措施。一般来说,最困难的民户只能卖妻鬻子或逃荒,受灾略重的民户或是卖地卖房子或者逃荒,受灾较轻的民户尽量不卖地或者少卖地,普遍性地采取了降低生活水平的自救措施。 In the late 1920s, a rare severe drought in history occurred in Suiyuan, accounting for more than 70% of the population at that time. In the absence of government and social assistance efforts, the victims took different self-help measures in order to survive the famine. Generally speaking, the most difficult households can only sell their widowers or run away from famine, suffer a little bit of hard-hit households or sell their houses or sell their homes, To take measures to reduce the standard of living self-help.