Lugu Lake to get up in the side, ear more slightest sound of water waves.

Lugu Lake is a quite reputable, highland lakes, located in Ninglang Yi Autonomous County of Yunnan and Sichuan Yanyuan counties away from Lijiang, 270 km away from the Ninglang Xian City, 73 km, the average lake depth 40.3 meters, the deepest 93.5 meters, no affected by any pollution, maximum visibility of 12 meters, the surface elevation of 2680 meters. ﹝ taken from the "Yunnan Travel Guide 99" ﹞

Mosuo matriarchal culture, leaving the park, along the village fell into the water turn full circle, feeling the most are the pig, pig Mosuo people are very used to, groups of pigs, went back in time but also people, love special.

Handicap and others by boat to the partnership, did not go to get into, and the heavens it began to rain, and really do not know the person who went out by boat to come back what happens.

Garden with them in Moso culture, family members sat for a while, did not talk about, see the rain stopped, on his own along the road, walk around the lake opened to initially do not know what will be seen, there will be nothing special happened. Something happens that is a coincidence, the day the experience of Moso village kicked off unexpectedly.

The story is from two guys who started Moso, a Jiao Yang Lu left, a man named Cao (this is their Chinese names, they have their own Mosuo name), tall too small, age is 16, studying in the beginning of二. In the case of Lugu side of the road they are, they asked me if boat can be by boat to their village or to the lake, a number of general visitors to the island do not. I was nothing better to do without the sense of occasion together, so he promised them. And they reached the lake a house, start his own a little bit trepidation, for fear they will have a bad attempt, and later chatted with them on board addict to get acquaintance, to lay down their hearts come.

They paddled a small fishing boat, I sat in the middle and spent a half hour or so to reach their village, a typical Mosuo people in small villages, called the Little village fell into the water than the average tourist to live into that big falling into the water Village to be much poorer.

Fell into the water is located in a small village surrounded by the mountain, a hill facing the lake ri, little arable land, only some kinds of corn and potatoes, a population of about 180 people, every household not only raised animals (including: cattle, sheep, horses, chickens etc.), and fishing. However, as land resources and geographic limitations, so that their lives did not have major improvement in the standard of living Jin to make ends meet.

Because less subject to interference from foreign cultures, they are basically maintained the Moso matrilineal society in the national life of the typical cultural characteristics, and different from the traditional urban culture.

While society is matriarchal, but from my observation, not a man has no place in society, but that in particular in relation to other peoples very different marriage patterns, make it a matriarchal society.

In the home to elderly or able to female-headed, do not marry men and women do not marry, each living parent home, living between two sides were only the establishment of duality. Both men and women to maintain "Assia" ﹝ ﹞ intimate partner relationship, the length of time depends on the feelings of both sides. If the woman gave birth to children, care of the mother, the father he took child-rearing obligations, but to know that their own sons and daughters, we must always see to take care of. Far as I know that know, now Mosuo people into middle age when the child grew up, a lot of "Assia" also lived together. Although there is no marriage is about, but there are modern couples home-style living in reality. The family of men and women each have their works for the daily life and toil, hard work aside, quiet simplicity, but also do not count on what the men and women status.

Yang Lu left home, little one ﹝ inside the main hall was dark, I have just entered, not see things, a minute or two after the eyes adjust to coming ﹞, which is the kitchen, but also eating and sleeping place. Meal to eat hard rice ﹝ relative to the entrance of the living standards of people who ﹞, listen to, they say, be regarded as a good meal today, because I do want to entertain!

That night, I sing with them, they teach me dance dance ﹝ ﹞, both girls and boys wear traditional national dress. Unfortunately, God did not made the United States, has been rain, only remove the interior. 1 sound cassette recorder hard ﹝ voltage due to a serious shortage ﹞, an approximately 15-watt yellow lamp, a liquor  quite choke a dozen older villagers, nearly 10 boy and girl on the formation of tonight's show, conditions poor, but the participants are so frank smile is so natural and real!

Drink to half-drunk, in the dark room, got into a kind of a weird taste blanket, in the rain in a Shuidaotianliang.

Wake up, intermittent rain mercilessly blocked me into the mountains to play opportunities. Only Dazhao San, in the village Dao Chuguang.

Met yesterday, know one young, he and a small child walking on a footpath has been dug under the rain washed the mud diarrhea. Looked at him and nothing, not even the facial expressions, slowly, a hoe and a hoe to dig into the soil on the roadside. My heart hurts, it falls on me like a hoe hearts.

Yesterday and he spoke a few words, he is the village with the highest educational level of junior high school graduates who ﹝ ﹞, this level seems to have more than adequate, because every day, or may not be limited to no more than any living farming, fishing, grazing livestock These class. Household are so poor, it will not or can not afford to spend money to pay for their children seem to read some of the rural life without their academic knowledge. I asked him if he ever thought of Chen Nianqing go outside to try again, he said that each village in the young people are eager to strike out on a bit but all previous examples did cast a shadow in their hearts and produce hesitation. He said that last year the village has several young people to break out to work ﹝ ﹞, but in the end do not have to rely on the calendar two months before begging along the way home from Canton.

On the one hand, the transportation costs go away is a very heavy for them to spend, even if the money to ride out to the outside, they are not so easy to break a path through to. They have no ability to adapt to city life and survival skills, unaccompanied, at most only in a vast tide of peasant workers, if lucky enough, find someone to work on a subsistence by labor; Unfortunately, then it might be reduced to the body without nothing at all, begging the point. By that time, you may begin to realize that although the lives of the village poor, but how to say a home, never better than this. A step by step, walk, begging outside the home most likely is that they break the final outcome.

Non-stop rain the ground is also not cover the hearts of even the rain umbrella.

﹝ village has a primary and secondary schools by only 1-3 grade elementary school pupils ﹞, by a two-classroom Hijiya composition. Because it is summer, it was like a deserted for many years and the remaining walls of the room. Looking through a window into the dark classroom, and a few crooked wooden desk cluttered places scattered across the rugged mud, rain falling through the window, the thick dust on the table on. It can people believe this is a school as there was a dirt basketball court, basketball hoops with a few wooden boards or in very good shape, at least you can shoot.

At noon, the weather began to improve, and Yang Lu left, Cao three rowing together, take it back to big to stay in the village fell into the water where the other side of the backpack ﹝ people who do not know if I will advance a coincidence in the lake opposite the one night stay, they said, such as Today, I Zaimo back, you may need to alarm. Of course, I apologize, but also an overnight paid only luggage room rent ﹞, in the middle of the island in the lake after a pause. The weather clear up, the sun came out, so I finally experience the endless scenery of the lake: the clear lake water, deep-green plants, green mountains and the shore, plus marching line of lake and water lizards. Began to doubt their own thinking before was not redundant, there is simply heaven.

Is zoned for about four hours, the skin soon turn red ﹝ particularly severe high-altitude sun; there is no sun, you do not wear jackets, then will feel very cool; On the contrary, the sun came out, wearing T-shirt also felt in particular hot ﹞.

On the shore, the temporary change your mind, see both of them want to go to Yongning ﹝ a recent town from the lake, about 20 kilometers, there is no formal way ﹞, would accompany them to the trip. Cut on a truck, a very bumpy road, stations are also stops unstable. That they can be taken to play a play, it turns out the whole Yongning county have only a street, a Wang Jin, several of the lack of angry merchandise junk shop, several shops and a street market is everything. Fortunately, a Lu Xiangting become our evening programs, read a series of very old Hong Kong horror film.

The next morning, I returned along the same route through the Lugu Lake Ninglang, ending a tour of an unforgettable trip to Lugu Lake.
Author: kyeungken