Lugu Lake, known as the "daughter country", is the most mysterious because of the word "married". It is natural to love life there, so some people say it is a "paradise of love". Thousands of years have passed there slowly, and in the huge matriarchal tribe, Mosuo children are still walking happily on that ancient wedding road. The custom of going to get married is called "turning over wood" among Mosuo people in Sichuan, north of Lugu Lake. It refers to a man climbing over the wall of a wooden house at night and entering his daughter's greenhouse. Among Mosuo people in Yunnan, "going to get married" is called "secret", which can be understood as "walking", that is, walking around, going at night and coming back in the morning is also "walking". Let's just understand it as "racing with bulls".
Every evening, the afterglow of the sunset is sprinkled on the Goddess Mountain. When the honey-like sunset shines on the horizon, the wings of the returning birds are tired with the lakes and mountains, and the mountains are covered with shadows. The blue dream will soon be caged at night. At that time, on the hillside or on the winding road by the lake, you would often see handsome men riding horses. Wearing hats, boots and exquisite waist knives, they mounted their beloved war horses, held gifts for girls in their arms, and walked leisurely to their lover's home with enough self-confidence and endless feelings.
Walking marriage, a romantic form of marriage, is not rootless. It has its own unique cultural background. Among the Mosuo people along Lugu Lake, the matriarchal family model has always been practiced. The blood relationship is based on the matriarchal line, and the property is inherited by the daughter. The children born are only maternal relatives, only mothers and uncles, as well as children of mothers' brothers and sisters and female members without uncles, aunts and daughters-in-law. This model must be maintained by the system of walking marriage. Every night, the men in the family spend the night at their lover's house, and then go back to their parents' house at dawn the next day. The children born are all raised by the woman, only the children of her sister are born. So in the family, their status (that is, uncles) is second only to their mothers. In such a family, the practice is that "uncles and grandmothers manage money". There is not much economic contact between men and women, except some pledges to each other, and there is no * * * property, because they have not set up their own small families, and there is only emotional connection between them. Once the relationship between the two sides breaks down, men no longer visit at night. There is no complaining or hatred between the two sides, because they don't have to argue about the economy or the raising of their children. The child has always been borne by the woman's family and has never relied on the father. After men and women are separated, they can still visit their favorite couples.
Young men and women fall in love, which is secret at first. With the deepening of their feelings, they come and go openly. Once they come and go openly, they can enter the woman's house at dusk to eat and work with their families. No matter what status men and women have, what reputation, what family background, elders never interfere. I just got married because of my rich and powerful family background. After marriage, their property and reputation still belong to two independent families and have nothing to do with customers. Therefore, they only pay attention to each other's feelings.
Under the bright starry sky, in the blue waves of Lugu Lake, people are still singing history and love, taking vows in the dark, and parting ways at dawn. For people from other places, it can only be a mystery, because only there can that kind of love grow, and Lugu Lake will always be a paradise for love.