–  Interviewer: ‘Do they wash hands with soap?’ Interviewee: ‘No. The places to kill chickens and ducks are usually dirty and smelly, especially during the summer’ (male chef at a local restaurant, 24-y-old, Guangdong).
–  Interviewer: ‘Are there toilets in your house?’ Interviewee: ‘Yes, but they are all squat-style toilets which we need to transfer the faeces out of the house’ (male handyman, 51-y-old, Yunnan).
–  ‘Once a person died, his or her children will clean the body, put on the cloth, and put the body into a coffin to stay at home. Then they inform relatives and friends to have a meeting to select a date for the burial, when there will be cemetery ritual activities and dinner. When my father-in law and mother-in law died, their bodies stay at home for 3 days’ (female peasant farmer, 43-y-old, Yunnan).
–  ‘There is a cave behind our house, there are always some people going inside the cave and catching bats for food’ (female peasant farmer, 60-y-old, Guangxi).
–  ‘We almost see deer every winter when its snowing around this village, so our dogs pursued deer’ (male staff member of local nature reserve, 45-y-old, Guangxi).
–  Interviewer: ‘What kind of animals live in this area?’ Interviewee: ‘Weasels. People often see weasels stealing chicken from their houses’ (male staff member at local forestry department, 40-y-old, Guangdong).
–  Interviewer: ‘When you see rats or dead rats, would you call the infection sanitary department for help?’ Interviewee: ‘There are too many rats in the village, we only call the infection sanitary department for help when someone is infected’ (male worker at a local restaurant, 23-y-old, Yunnan).
–  Interviewer: ‘How do you deal with the wastes, like the organs you do not eat from the chicken?’ Interviewee: ‘Throw them away.’ Interviewer: ‘Where do you throw? A certain place?’ Interviewee: ‘Anywhere is OK like at the roadside’ (female owner of a local grocery store, 54-y-old, Yunnan).
–  Interviewer: ‘Do people worry about the well water quality?’ Interviewee: ‘Yes, so many people are buying water for drinking, but I am old, I do not care, and I feel the well water is better, sweet, and I drink well water’ (male peasant farmer, 80-y-old, Guangxi).