行走走婚橋-雲南瀘沽湖 | Walking the Walking Marriage Bridge, Lugu Lake, Yunnan，China

Walking marriage bridge
Walking Marriage Bridge is located in the Caohai area in the southeast waters of Lugu Lake, and it is the only bridge on Lugu Lake. Under the bridge, due to years of sedimentation, the water depth becomes shallow, and there are dense reeds growing there. From a distance, it looks like a sea of grass, so the locals call it "Grass Sea". Walking Marriage Bridge is a place where Mosuo men and women date. The Mosuo people on the banks of Lugu Lake practice the custom of "walking marriage" that "men do not marry and women do not marry".
Walking Marriage Customs
This is the most representative wedding custom of the Mosuo people, popular in Yongning Mosuo. Neither women nor men marry, unless the family needs a female successor or a male labor force to marry a wife or recruit a son-in-law. Young men and women mostly do group activities during the day. They express their hearts to their sweethearts through singing and dancing. After they have a foundation of affection, they can have a "walking marriage" if they both agree. In a walking marriage, the man can only sneak into the woman's "flower building" (the woman's room) after nightfall (the Mosuo people call it "Mosuo"), and leave before dawn after sharing the bed with the woman ("Shuo out"). This kind of walking marriage depends only on feelings, and has nothing to do with all external conditions such as the economy. Mosuo people often drink Sulima wine during walking marriage. Men call female lovers "Axia", and women call male lovers "Azhu". The children of two people born in a walking marriage are raised by the woman's family, and the man does not need to bear the burden, but both the father and the children know each other's parent-child relationship. After the men and women in walking marriage break up, they are still free to re-marry with other people.
Matrilineal society
The Mosuo people still retain the family form of matriarchy on the banks of Lugu Lake until now, and they are known as the "mysterious daughter country". This is one of the most mysterious and interesting Mosuo cultural phenomena for Chinese and foreign scholars and tourists. .
In a matriarchal family, the mother dominates everything, and women have a high status in the family. The members of the family are all descended from one mother or grandmother. In the family, no man marries a wife, no woman marries, and the woman lives with her mother all her life. The man goes to Axia's house at night and returns to his mother's house early in the morning to give birth and live. This is called "walking marriage" by the Mosuo people. While the woman is at home, waiting for the male Axia to visit at night, the family members are all relatives of maternal blood, and there are no members of father's blood. Property is inherited according to maternal nature, and the blood of family members is calculated entirely on the matrilineal line. There are no relations such as son-in-law, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, uncle and nephew. The children of the sisters in the family are all their closest children, regardless of each other. The mother's sister is also called mother, and her biological father is called "uncle".
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走婚橋
走婚橋位於瀘沽湖東南水域的草海區域，是瀘沽湖上唯一的座橋。橋下由於長年泥沙淤積，導致水深變淺，長有茂密的蘆葦，遠遠望去，像一片草的海洋，故當地人稱其為“草海”。走婚橋是摩梭男女約會的地方， 瀘沽湖畔的摩梭人奉行“男不娶，女不嫁”的“走婚”習俗。

走婚習俗
這是摩梭人最具代表性的婚俗，流行於永寧摩梭。女性和男性均不結婚，除非是家族需要女性繼後或男性勞動力才會娶妻或招婿。青年女男日間多為集體活動，透過歌唱、舞蹈向心上人表達心意，具有感情基礎後，二人均同意，可以進行“走婚”。走婚時，男方只能在入夜後偷偷潛入（摩梭人稱為“摩入”）女方“花樓”（即女方房間），與女方同床後，天亮之前離開（“梭出”）。這種走婚只依賴感情，與經濟等一切外界條件均無關。走婚時摩梭人常以蘇里瑪酒為飲品。男性稱女情人為“阿夏”，女性稱男情人為“阿注”。二人走婚生下的子女由女家撫養，男方不需負擔，但父親和子女都知道彼此的親子關係。走婚的男女分手後，仍可以自由與其他人重新進行走婚。

母系社會
摩梭人直到現在，瀘沽湖畔仍保留著母權製家庭形式，被人們稱之為“神秘的女兒國”，這是讓中外學者和遊人最感神秘、最感興趣的摩梭文化現象之一。
母系家庭中母親主宰一切，女性在家庭中有著崇高的地位。家庭裡的成員都是一個母親或祖母的後代。家庭中無男子娶妻，無女子出嫁，女子終生生活在母親身邊。男子夜晚去女阿夏家，清早回自己母親家生產生活，這叫摩梭人的“走婚”。而女子在家，夜晚等男阿夏來走訪，家庭成員都是母性血緣的親人，沒有父親血緣的成員。財產按母性繼承，家庭成員的血統完全以母系計算，家裡沒有翁婿、婆媳、妯娌、姑嫂、叔侄等關係。家庭裡姊妹的孩子都是自己最親的孩子，不分彼此。母親的姊妹也稱作媽媽，對自己的生父則稱為“舅舅”。
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