A photo taken in 2009 shows a newlywed couple sitting in the living room. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in 2009 shows a young mother with a donkey. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in 2009 shows a mother riding on a donkey. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in 2009 shows Tajik children help their parents labor on the field. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in 2015 shows a Tajik lady sitting in an apricot forest. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in 2017 shows a lady standing by the riverside of a forest park. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in 2012 shows two sisters stand hand-in-hand around galsang flowers. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in 2018 shows a 4-year-old girl playing with a doll on a cot in a summer pasture tent. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in 2019 shows a woman and a child posing in front of their new house at the pasture. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in 2018 shows mothers making nang, a traditional local bread, for their children going to school in the city. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in 2016 shows a group of Tajik women washing clothes with hot spring water. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in April of 2016 shows a family at the spring pasture. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]

A photo taken in October of 2013 shows herders and a camel. [Photo by Li Xin/cpanet.org.cn]