Sichuan Yanyuan Cloud Nanning

Location: 蒗   Lugu Lake         Photo: A Zhuo Zhihong        Background music: "Love of Lugu Lake"

  Lugu Lake Cave called as Lu Zi, also known as left by the sea, commonly known as the bright sea, located in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan ProvinceYanyuanCounty and Yi Autonomous County of Yunnan Province, Lijiang City, between the Ninglang. Lake elevation 2690.75m, an area of about 48.45km2. Residents of the lake is mainly Moso, there are some Naxi people. Moso matrilineal clan still the institution of marriage.  
P2 (the banks of Lugu Lake Moso girl)
  Living here is Moso (note: not "Moso tribe", not the 56 nationalities of China," Moso tribe. "After the founding of New China, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and other departments in the first national recognition, the Yunnan Lugu Lake Moso identified as Naxi, while the banks of Lugu Lake was Mongolian Moso), Moso people have their ownmother tongueMosuo language, in common with the Naxi language, but not his ownwords. The culture Daba culture, and believe inTibetan Buddhism. Moso is the only still existing matriarchal society, the "do not marry men, women do not marry" and "walking marriage"system.

P3(Brigham goddess of Lugu Lake Hill)
   Lugu Lake shoreline twists and turns, heavily forested, six small islands to give unlimited distant reverie. This is a country on the plateau southwest of the Pearl attractive, Mosuo people call it "Xie Nami" means "Mother Lake", the mother of the lake. She looked like a quaint, quiet Sleeping Beauty, lying among the green hills of the arms, like a God hidden in a huge sapphire here, the days of shiny side mirror. The lake is about fifty kilometers north shore of the lake, stands a beautiful "Planted" mountain, meaning a female mountain. Moso her as the goddess incarnate. Looked far across the lake from the south Brigham and like a head women's clothes mountain lion, people called it the Lion Rock. Where air, water, plants, have been given the myth of female images, as our contemporary real "daughter."

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The daughter of her country, the beautiful girl Mosuo.
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P6 Mosuo girls are singing and dancing all

P7  Moso family
  Lugu Lake is now living along the coast have Mosuo and Yi, Han, Naxi, Tibetan, Pumi, Bai, Zhuang and other 7 kinds of people, about 1.3 million, of whichMosoabout 6,000 people (Lugu Lake and more than 5,000 along the Moso .)Lugu Lake toits natural beauty typical of the highland lakes and the unique matrilineal Moso culture formed a prominent feature of the natural landscape and cultural landscape.

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  Here, everything is so amazing, so simple, both Cheng Ding Li, Ah Xiao marriage, matrilineal families, funeral, are unique. Every ritual, every custom, is a story of a beautiful and moving, a beautiful pastoral support You Yang, all filled with a bit mysterious, a bit romantic, somewhat poetic, somewhat pictorial, which gives a reverie and Si Yi.