This video explores the story of a Zakhchin family whose parents emigrated from Mongolia to Xinjiang in the 1930s due to the communist policies implemented in Mongolia. My name is Noosondai, the youngest of nine children, born in 1936 in Bor Tüngu, now known as Sawan County. My mother's family, the Noyan Geleng, originated from Gobi Altai province in Mongolia. It was a time when communism reached Mongolia, prompting the wealthy and aristocratic to flee the country due to the new regime. My mother, previously married to a Khalh man in Mongolia, left him behind when she moved to Xinjiang with her siblings. I was born to her late husband. In our culture, we are traditionally forbidden from speaking our parents-in-law's names, and this is the first time I have shared their names. Their names were Mijid, an Ööld from Bortal, and Manga, a Uryanhai from Altai. In those days, parents arranged their children's marriages, and I was married to a man ten years senior, chosen by my mother. Together, we had nine children. For over a decade, my husband and I herded cows for a commune until he was wrongfully accused of being a member of the Nationalist Party during the Cultural Revolution. Post-revolution, as we were not allocated any pasturelands, my children sought their own livelihoods in various ways. I now live with my youngest child, who works for a coal mining company in Jargalant.