Mosuo's wedding banquet

walking marriage is a unique way of marriage among ethnic minorities in Southwest China, where men do not marry women, and through visits from dusk to dawn, both men and women achieve union. Both men and women produce and consume in their respective matrilineal households, and bear the obligation to raise offspring. The two parties in walking marriage do not monopolize each other's sexual relationships, economic relationships, or economic relationships@The custom of walking marriage is mainly distributed in the southwestern region of China, including the Zhaba people in Sichuan, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Daofu, and Yajiang counties, as well as the Mosuo people around Lugu Lake at the border of Sichuan and Yunnan, and the Trobriand people in New Guinea

The custom of walking marriage is a common marriage custom that has appeared among ethnic minorities in human history. In the Central Plains region, as early as the Qin, Han, and 26 dynasties, it had already exited the historical stage, but it was still popular among ethnic minorities, especially the Naxi people around Lugu Lake during the Republic of China era@The earliest record of the walking marriage system in the Naxi ethnic region can be found in the travelogue of Marco Polo on the 31st. During the Ming, Qing, and Republic of China periods, the Naxi people in areas such as Muli 34, Yanyuan 36, Ninglang 38, and Yongning 40 all had the custom of walking marriage. During the Republic of China period, the Lvxi ethnic group in Yongning was a matrilineal society, with men and women not getting married. Their family organization consists only of a mother and no fatherFamily economyPower is in the hands of women, only women haveinheritance rights. The form of marriage in Yongning is called Ouxiu. [3] The wedding customs of the Naxi people who migrated to Russia and Asia during the Ming Dynasty are mainly characterized by walking marriages. In Russia and Asia, it is called "Anda" marriage, and the customs are different from those in Yongning and Yanyuan areas. The Yananasi ethnic region is already in the stage ofmonogamy, but there is still a custom of walking marriage

The Naxi branch that entered Lijiang entered the monogamous system very early on. In the Ming Dynasty, they had already accepted Chinese customs and used Confucian rituals to regulate behavior. In the Yongning and Yanyuan areas, the traditional customs of our ethnic group are mainly based on group marriage, gradually moving from group marriage to paired marriage@Since the Qing Dynasty, the walking marriage system began to move towards the monogamous system until the late period of the Republic of China, but the proportion of monogamous families was not high. In the Zhaba area of Sichuan Province, the family planning policy of 67 has intervened in the practice of walking marriage, downplaying it. Traditional walking marriage, paired marriage, and 70 marriage have merged to form a new type of walking marriage system#