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Sichod Wangmo's happy life in China's Xizang after democratic reform

STORY: Sichod Wangmo's happy life in China's Xizang after democratic reform SHOOTING TIME: March 28, 2024 DATELINE: March 31, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:13 LOCATION: LHASA, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Sichod Wangmo's family SOUNDBITE 1 (Tibetan): SICHOD WANGMO, Resident in Damxung County, China's Xizang SOUNDBITE 2 (Tibetan): SONAM NORDAR, Resident in Damxung County, China's Xizang SOUNDBITE 3 (Tibetan): SONAM NORDAR, Resident in Damxung County, China's Xizang SOUNDBITE 4 (Tibetan): SICHOD WANGMO, Resident in Damxung County, China's Xizang STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE 1 (Tibetan): SICHOD WANGMO, Resident in Damxung County, China's Xizang In the past (before 1959), people here barely had enough to eat. We lived in dire poverty while also having to help the serf owners with herding, rarely having a full stomach. My name is Sichod Wangmo and I'm 85 years old now. Sichod Wangmo used to be a serf in old Xizang Born in 1939, she has witnessed the tremendous changes that have taken place in Xizang over the

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Soinam Nordar tends to a herd of yaks in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families. Sichod Wangmo feels she is now living a life

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sichod Wangmo (C) celebrates the Tibetan New Year with her family at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families.

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Soinam Nordar (R), Sichod Wangmo's son, hands his mom a cup of barley wine at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their fa

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Family members of Sichod Wangmo pose for photos in festival costumes at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sichod Wangmo's daughter-in-law cooks for the family at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families. Sichod Wang

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sichod Wangmo's great-grandchildren are going to send festival greetings to their neighbors at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sichod Wangmo (R) eats chema, roasted barley and fried wheat grain in a two-tier rectangular wooden box, at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sist

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sichod Wangmo's daughter-in-law (L) serves family members with food at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families.

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sichod Wangmo celebrates the Tibetan New Year with her family at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families. Si

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 10, 2024 shows Sichod Wangmo's home at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families. Sicho

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sichod Wangmo's daughter-in-law cooks for the family at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families. Sichod Wang

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sichod Wangmo and her great-granddaughter greet each other at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families. Sicho

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sichod Wangmo (C, front) poses for a group photo with her family at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families.

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Soinam Nordar shops with his granddaughters at a New Year fair in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 3, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families. Sichod Wangmo feels

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(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Soinam Nordar drives a herd of yaks in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families. Sichod Wangmo feels she is now living a life s