Lugu Lake and the Mosuo Minority

Lugu Lake is located among the lofty and precipitous mountains where Ninglang autonomous county in Lijiang borders Yanyuan county in Si chuan province, It is 72km far from Ninglang. As the second largest deep-water lake in Yunnan, it covers an area of 52km with an average depth of 45meters, the deepest point being 93meters, it has a visibility depth 12 meters. Lugu Lake is a beautiful place,

Here live the Mosuo people, which is a branch of the Naxi nationality. Among this minority, the visiting marriage style inherited from the matriarchical society is still popular, Men and women do not marry each other in the usual way, Instead men would go to visit women and stay with them only for nights, This kind of marriage style called “walking marriage”.

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