| The "satisfied Ru"(Naru), Mosuo language belongs to the Yi branch of the Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman, is an oral language, there is no text in the form. Mosuo people have their own religion, Daba teach, with one of nature worship, spirit worship and ancestor worship. However, the incoming Lamaism in Tibet also has a great influence on the religious life of the Mosuo people. The Mosuo region irrigated agriculture has been developed. The most significant feature of the Mosuo society and Living visited the system, which is a Mosuo people institutionalized coalition. Mosuo language, such visits relationship is called tisese, meaning "walking around". The vast majority of Mosuo adults through this relationship to meet the requirements of their reproductive and sexual. The only condition of this relationship is that both men and women have agreed to have sexual relations with each other. Either begin or end, it does not need a ceremony, do not need to get social recognition and gift exchange. The man to the woman home visits to places usually at night, returned to their homes in the next morning. In the busy season, the man often will help the woman’s house to do some manual labor, but it is not right and wrong do not. In principle, this relationship does not affect the socio-economic status of both partners, and would not ask them to form an exclusive and permanent alliance. This relationship of children born to belong to the household of mother Fangjiashan. Whatever the case, the child will not be deemed illegitimate. A Mosuo household, including three to four generations of the population of the maternal relationship, whose members include the mother’s mother and her brothers and sisters, mothers and their brothers and sisters, mother’s mother’s sister’s child, self and self-brothers and sisters, mothers sisters of children, as well as the children of this generation of self female members. In a typical Mosuo households, the adult female home the Front men visited, while men go out to a female companion home visits. The entire economy of the household when the family management and supervision, men and women can be when the parents, the property is inherited by all members of the household. The traditional Mosuo thought, women in the entire cultural center position. Centuries, the Tibetan and Han Chinese culture of the Mosuo people, but this concept of women in all aspects of the life of the Mosuo people is still clearly visible.We went zooming drove dozens of hours, turn the train car car turn oxcart, removed several times to finally reach Yanyuan County, left the area, and very fortunate to be able to live in the farmhouse operated by the local Mosuo people. The boss is very kind, called race if Yi Jie home race (Yi Jie household or by the name of the DU race if the boss my name; already described, the Mosuo people had no surnames, the front of the names are preceded by home households or be distinguished according to Du’s name), is a native of Lugu Lake Mosuo people. Us to produce our identity, that had come originally thought the locals because of the negative impact of some outsiders and the friction of the Mosuo people or reporters, and some of the unscrupulous scholars in recent years, the tournament if the boss feel disgusted be our visit but day to help a nice ring, that had come, he not only does not mean objectionable and not pay any attention, hand, speculative talk with us again, can be said to hit it off. Research to the left of the area before, I also I can think of, you want to grasp all the issues are collated in advance, and then cleverly hidden in these seemingly unconscious conversation chat. Now, I I learned that the traditional the Mosuo matrilineal system of social and cultural details in interviews form presented to the reader.Left the district Mosuo people matrilineal kin, matrilineal kinship Group is composed by the same female ancestor of the third and fourth generation descendants:grandmother and her brothers and sisters, mothers and their brothers and sisters, their children and grandchildren and other members. Neither male spouses of female members, nor does it include the male members of the female spouse. The kinship is mainly used for the identification and traceability origin to determine the degree of kinship and identify the range of exchanges. Kin within strict sexual taboos, their gender among members of not only the non-occurrence of sexual intercourse, but can not talk about any topic. The kinship is a kinship group, is a production life of the unit, the Mosuo language when it appear to produce life-call it "according to Du. According to Du is the meaning of the house, including people living in the same house, the equivalent of "households". A kindred usually is according to Du, but one in accordance the DU people does not necessarily belong to the same kindred. Adoptive, married into the marriage occurred, one in accordance with the Tournaisian will contain two or more clan members. According to Du few in number, generally seven or eight people, and more, but twenty or thirty people. Its members so much, from a historical point of view mainly in the modern conditions of the development of productive forces, it is huge,"according to Du" organizations have been unnecessary, so just keep dividing into smaller according to Du. Chieftain system, according to Du units of labor and tribute. The Mosuo people left the area without the surname of the nation, and the names (named by Daba Lama) the addition identical, it is needed before the true name preceded by their family name or pedigree name be separate, to return to their roots in terms of, the family name is equivalent to the surnames of the Han people. The majority of the family name ancestors named, and that name was named after people, but also reflects the Cultural Complex of the Mosuo people of ancestor worship. Once named, it is with a specific residence housing linked to, as long as the people who live in this house, with the family name, and thus they have around the house name for the name of the house. In other words, the family name is the name according to Du. In fact, more than is derived from the names, and names can be used later to replace. There are a handful based on Kinship Terms (mother, grandmother) in the name. There are very few along the name of the origin of the name. Some scholars known as the "house" according to Du, this also shows that the house of kin. |
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