明万历二十二年(1594),河南发生特大灾荒,饥民遍野,食人炊骨。时任刑科给事中的杨东明,将灾荒中饥民的种种惨状绘制成十几幅图,并配以文字,编成《饥民图说》上奏皇帝,请求朝廷予以赈济(这册《饥民图说》由杨的后人雕版印行,全部雕版现存河南省博物院)。由于灾情严重,平日荒于政 Ming Wanli twenty-two years (1594), Henan catastrophe, hungry people everywhere, cannibalism cook bone. Yang Dongming, who was appointed minister of criminal justice, mapped the horrors of the famine in the famine to more than a dozen maps, matched with words, compiled into an emperors proclaimed Emperor of the Famine Relief and requested relief from the court (this book, Engraved by the descendants of Yang version, all engraving version of the existing Henan Provincial Museum). Due to serious disaster, usually in politics