Interview with Wang Xiuzhen

Wang Xiuzhen (b. 1934) is a resident of Renjiagou Village, Shaanxi Province. In this interview, Wang recalls the difficult life after 1958. During the daytime, she had to do farming or build blast furnace with her kid on her back. At night because she also had to work overtime, she put her kid in a basket and asked someone else to look after the kid. The communal canteen only provided vegetable soup, and lots of people died of starvation. The kids didn’t have clean clothes to change after their clothes got wet, so the parents had to dry the clothes over fire.

王秀珍（1934年生）是陕西省商洛市商南县城关镇任家沟村石门组村民。王老人回忆了1958年以后的穷苦生活。她白天得带着孩子去种庄稼或者大炼钢铁，晚上也要去加班、“大会战”，把孩子放在箩筐里，找人看护。食堂只有菜汤吃，很多人饿死，孩子尿湿了也没衣服换，只能用火烤干。

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