In 1960 AD, the year of Gengzi and the year of the Golden Rat, the blind fortune teller on the street called this year the year of the earth on the wall.

In this year, 17 African countries declared their independence, known as the "Year of African Independence".

In that year, a strong earthquake struck Chile, which lasted for more than a month, killing 140,000 people and turning a 600-kilometer radius into ruins.

In this year, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and other third-world oil-producing countries met in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, to establish oil exporting countries in order to safeguard their own oil interests.

In this year, China's self-designed and manufactured experimental liquid sounding rocket was successfully launched for the first time at the Nanhui Simple Launch Site in Shanghai, flying at an altitude of 8 kilometers, taking the first step in China's sounding rocket.

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This year, many major events have occurred abroad and at home that have been recorded in history, but for the ordinary people who "take food as the sky", it is a major event in life to be able to fill their stomachs and suffer less hunger and not to starve.

In the vast land of the Western Regions in the northwest of the motherland, here was once the Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong galloped to guard the territory, some of the national border steles still stand on the Sino-Soviet international border, although after years of erosion, but still shoulder the sacred historical mission.

Quang Nhin Commune was once an ancient town, and in the mottled and dilapidated courtyard of the Qing Dynasty General's Mansion, two heavy long stone boundary monuments lay quietly in the deep barren grass and were submerged, becoming the playthings of nearby children.

This piece of border monument that was secretly moved to the border of our country by the officers and soldiers stationed in the former Tsarist Russia every year is nearly 20 kilometers away, and the bumps and bumps on it that have been eroded by the years seem to be silently pouring out to people the corruption and incompetence of the Qing Dynasty government in those years, and it seems to tell the glorious history of the Qing army waving its army to Dzungaria, "Jin Ge Iron Horse, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger", galloping across the battlefield, and completely pacifying the troubles of Dzungaria.

Since the Han Dynasty, it has appeared in the Western Regions of China's historical books, and is the core of the ancient Silk Road, a multi-ethnic area, and a place of multi-religious beliefs.

Since the Anshi Rebellion in 755, the vast land of the Western Regions has been wandering outside the Central Plains, and in 1759, the Qing army put down the rebellion of Daxiao and Zhuo, announcing the end of the century-long war between the Qing Dynasty and the Dzungar tribes.

Qianlong, who was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty at the time, was full of spirit, and after the Qing army eliminated the Dzungaria, he named the fertile land of the Western Regions "Xinjiang", which means that the homeland is newly returned.

"Sixty years and one jiazi", with a flick of a finger, it has come to 2020 in a blink of an eye, and Xinjiang, which is changing with each passing day, has long been renewed.

The story starts from 1960, the protagonist Tian Kunhe, Tian Miao, Buick Polati, Rong Mao, Yi Lixian and other three generations of countless hard-working, simple and kind people of all ethnic groups are like pomegranate seeds, closely united together, hard work, forge ahead to build a beautiful Xinjiang, dare to call the sun and the moon a new day, the spectacular vicissitudes of struggle history......

The Yi language is alive

June 10, 2020