Interview with Zou Peiquan

Zou Peiquan (b.1945) was born in Zoujia Village, Shangdian Town, Binzhou City, Shandong Province. In this interview, Zou recalls his experience during the Great Famine. In 1958, people worked together in the field (called 'large formation combat') and sometimes grains were left rotten in the field. He picked and ate those rotten grains when he was very hungry. Soon afterwards he quit school, began eating in People's Commune canteen and went out working in the field and digging wild herbs. That year forty people in his village starved to death.

邹佩全1945年出生于山东省滨州市阳信县商店镇邹家村。在这段口述中，邹老人回忆了大饥荒时期的经历。1958年兵团大作战，粮食都被放烂了，他挨饿的时候就去拾来吃。他很快就退学了，开始吃食堂，出去干活、挖野菜。那一年村子里饿死了四十口人。

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