Spring reindeer bells in Khingan

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

In west-north Khinga mountains, there is a very special community called Chinese Evenki. Their language is disappearing with the traditional migration life. And it's happening in the last 30 years. They used to live with reindeers in the deep mountains. And they were hunters.
But when I was there, only around 20 people in the mountain who take care of the reindeers. YES, they look after them NOT live with them.
What those reindeers can help is antler velvet and photos with tourists in summer. Only few of younger Evenki would like go to the mountain with older generations, but more for taking care of the elders. Most of younger Evenki even can not speak their language. So I took few days to keep the reindeer bells echo in the mountains.
Recorded by Digimonk.