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Wang Peidao is a resident of Zhanggao Village, Heguan Town, Qingzhou City, Shandong Province. In this interview, Wang remembers experiences during the Great Famine. The filmmaker's description of this interview has been translated into English.

Wang Peide (b.1920) is a resident of Zhanggao Village, Heguan Town, Qingzhou City, Shandong Province. He is also the interviewer's grandfather. In this interview, Wang remembers experiences during the Great Famine. The Production Team leader asked him to grind sweet potato vines, but he was not that careful, so the leader gave him troubles. The filmmaker's description of this interview has been translated into English.

Wang Qin (b.1920) is a resident of Poyang Village, Linying County, Luohe City, Henan Province.During the Land Reform Movement, Wang's family was classified as rich peasant. She suffered through eating at eating halls and Cultural Revolution, but could not remember their details due to her age. Her son remembers that, in 1958, he was only two or three years old, and he was so hungry that he could not walk. He picked up cow dungs on the road and searched for wheat in them. Wang's son also says that many local people went to work on the reservoir and many were starved to death there.

Wang Ronggui (b. 1922) is a resident of Zhanggao Village, Heguan Town, Qingzhou City, Shandong Province. In this interview, Wang recalls that so many villagers died of starvation during the Great Famine that soon many corpses were left unburied. The filmmaker's description of this interview has been translated into English.

Wang Shihua (b. 1926) is a resident of Shaziying Village, Yang Town, Shunyi District, Beijing. In this interview, Wang recalls the life after 1949. After being demobilized from the army in 1954, Wang worked as the leader and then the secretary of the production team. He explains the operation of and differences between elementary and advanced agricultural producers' cooperatives and people's commune. To join the cooperatives, people had to pay a certain amount of money. If one did not have enough money, while poor and lower-middle peasants could borrow money from the credit union with zero interest rate, rich peasants and landlords had to pay the interest. Because of its reed field, Shaziying Village did not suffer as much as others during the Great Famine. Many girls made mats with reeds for extra money. No one starved to death but several old people died of constipation. The transcript of this interview has been translated into English.

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