Fu Yuegui, 80, villager in Sishuiguan town, Central China's Henan province. She survived the famine with locusts, bark and weeds. [Zheng Tao/Shandong Merchant Daily]

Liu Wantong, 95-year-old villager of Sishuiguan town, witnessed his father and brother's deaths of hunger in 1942. [Zheng Tao/Shandong Merchant Daily]

Hou Xiuzhi, 91, villager in Sishuiguan town, Central China's Henan province. She survived the famine with bark, geese feces. [Zheng Tao/Shandong Merchant Daily]

Han Leijing, 79-year-old man in Dongcai village, Henan province, survived the 1942 famine with grass roots and vegetables and wild herbs. [Zheng Tao/Shandong Merchant Daily]

Zhao Xiuqun, a 96-year-old famine survivor, is unable to communicate with others due to hearing loss. [Zheng Tao/Shandong Merchant Daily]

Wang Chunhua, 89, witnessed the 1942 famine in Sishuiguan town, Henan province. [Zheng Tao/Shandong Merchant Daily]