0138 - Mosuo People In China's Yunnan Province. The Mosuo people, a branch ...Back

Mosuo People In China's Yunnan Province. The Mosuo people, a branch of the Naxi minority nationality in the west part of Yunnan province, southwest China, now lead a new happy life. Isolated from other parts of the world for quite a long time, the Mosuo people follow the primitive pairing marriage and remain in the matriarchal society. However, they are undergoing changes and monogamy has been gradually introduced. The 5,000 Mosuo people mainly live at the highland around the Lugu Lake of the Ninglang Yi Autonomous County. Here the land is fertile and the climate fine. The Mosuo people any hard to learn advanced farming, build water conservancy projects and open up cropland. They have succeeded in cultivating rice on the land 2,600 metres ... level with an average output of 3 tons per ... They also develop forestry and animal husbandry based on their local conditions. Education and public health work are also in progress in the Mosuo people ... area.