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Ｃｈｉｌｄｒｅｎ　ＯＦ　ＢＡＲＡＪＡＹ 　　Liuba -- Wandering Between City and Mountains 　　Liuba is the oldest daughter of Barajay. As the first girl university student from Aoluguya hunting tribe, she later became a popular Ewenki painter. 　　The fur paintings created by Liuba are considered both art and cultural relics. A Japanese businessman once offered US$100,000 to buy one piece of Liubas fur painting, and she said No without any hesitation. 　　Born in 1960, Liuba had spent her childhood and teenage years in the mountains with reindeer. I was from one of the oldest and most primitive ethnic groups in deep mountains, she once said. Born and raised in such an environment, My world was pure and had never been polluted. 　　Though having little contacts with the outside world, young people from the hunting farm all hope to leave home for better lives in big cities. 　　When Liuba realized her dream to become a student at the Central University of Nationalities in 1981, her family was crowded with villagers coming to say congratulations. My memory is still fresh while recalling the happy moment, Liubas mother Barajay said. Then, villagers came to my house. They sang and danced. It was such a great thing for us all, she said. 　　After Liuba graduated from the Arts Department of the Central University of Nationalities, she became an art editor with the Inner Mongolia Peoples Publishing House. Struggling to merge herself into city life of the modern society, Liuba found herself in a difficult situation. She tried hard to get accepted by people around, but she was weak and incapable to adapt herself to the city life, recalled one of her friends. She tended to go to extremes and habitually used the straightforward way in dealing with people. 　　After experiencing a heart-stricken failure of love affair, she was badly hurt and began to miss her home, mother, grandma and the old lifestyle in the reindeer farm. 　　In 1992, Liuba returned to the hunting farm in Aoluguya Township where she grew