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When filmmaker Cao Jinling was a child, her family raised a deer in Moerdaoga in Northeast China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

Although the town covering 12 square kilometers has a population of around 25,000, its residents come from different ethnic groups such as Ewenki, Mongolian, Korean and Tibetan.

"We were familiar with most of the neighbors and my family was influenced by their lifestyles. For example, the Ewenki people herded reindeer and Korean people really liked kimchi," recalls Cao, who is of Mongolian-Manchu origin, during an interview with China Daily.