Mosu & Naxi Matriarchal tribes, Yunnan province, China

Yunnan province is the most biodiverse and beautiful province in China. It has half of all plant and animal species found in China and 52 of the remaining 56 ethnic minorities in the country. In this clip Manchán meet the O-Er-Do-Ju family in Lugu Lake, North West of Lijiang in Yunnan. He is accompanied by Miss Lu, a foreign affairs official. The father of the family sits at his mother's fireside and explains the Mosu system of family, in which the woman has complete control. He then brings up to meet his father who was a Buddhist monk until the monastary was shut down under Mao. He is now free to practise again. He gives Manchán a message to bring home to the West with him.
The singers on the mountain are members of the Naxi minority and live near Lijiang.
Manchán Magan, Global Nomad Films. www.manchan.com

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• Lugu
• Lake
• Mosu
• Culture
• Naxi
• matriarchal
• Yunnan
• province
• China

[CARLOSzMOTA]

Lets preserve ALL cultures in Asia and in the ENTIRE world....

[IronDragon]

Very true

[sourlunch]

Love matriarchy!

[DaCatOnTop]

gREAT VIDEo

[Mamemitsu1]

i love ancient china, the culture is rich, and the people have absolute faith in luck, feng shui, and heaven. but at the same time, the peasents are still wretched in poverty....that needs to stop.

[PrincessMoonFeathers]

women world wide need to reclaim this same power. its not about power over men, its about power from within, i am a married woman and i love men, but i want to see them happy in this world and an end to violence and war!

[domesticathlete]

This and other videos about Yunnan Mosu culture are a good adjunct to the book Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu

[999yullan]

…I don't know… I think the Mosu-Naxi have a lot to offer in terms of musical and culinary traditions, not to mention other aspects of their culture. Oddly, tourism can be turned to their advantage as a means or preserving their way of life; at least some aspects of it. They need but participate in the tourist industry - strongly - to preserve what they have not lost over the ravages of time.

[littl3x]

@DMSelena I was replying to the guy in the video who said, specifically, that theirs was a search for "true love." Did you even watch the video?

[DMSelena]

@littl3x So glad you know better than an ancient culture that was perfectly successful for thousands of years without your particular style of marriage. You don't understand the walking marriage; if you did, you'd understand this isn't some hippy-dippy free love thing.

[littl3x]

Actually, marriages in the west are now breaking up at huge rates because of the same search for "true love," which is a farce. Marriage is more stable when in its proper context of child-rearing and economic partnership. Love is a choice, and marriage is a commitment to live a lifetime together.