Padma Yundain (M) performs a short act called "Khesum Today" compiled by himself on March 27, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]

Padma Yundain, a 65-year-old Tibetan folk dramatist, recalled the past miserable life and recorded the present happiness in his dramas to unfold a real Tibet.

Padma Yundain lives at Khesum Village of Nedong County in south Tibet's Lhoka Prefecture.

In old Tibet, the site of Khesum Village was one of the major six manors of Sokhung Wangching Gelek, a serf owner who called himself a descendant of the 4th Dalai Lama.

Padma Yundain and his parents lived at a nearby village and struggled for a living by working for Sokhung.

"My parents worked day and night in the fields and I cut grass to feed pigs, the only meat source of my family," said Padma Yundain.

"Usually, we couldn't have the most common food in Tibet, Tsampa, and I felt even the livestock led a better life than us," added Padma Yundain.

Tsampa, known as one of the top four Tibetan foods and drinks, refers to a kind of roasted highland barley flour.

In March 1959, Tibet abolished the feudal serfdom under theocracy and Khesum Village became Tibet's first democratic reform village.

The Padama family was distributed with 10-mu farmland, about 0.67 hectares, and started a new life.

Later, tractors were used to plough farmland and carry materials, and flour mills and vermicelli factories appeared at Khesum Village.