Journal Pages: Southwestern China

Robin Wangs journal pages com from a 3 week trip to a southwestern part of China, together with Yunnan as well as Guangxi, with villages which still have matriarchal societies, as well as people ignoring a outward complicated world.

Two Naxi women were dancing in Lijiang Old Town with a music played from their tape recorder. One of them was carrying a baby during a same time. we wonder whether thats how Naxi people learn dancing during a initial place.

Architecture in Lijiang.

After 8 hours train tour over 5 plateau with sheer precipices we eventually arrived in Lugu Lake during 2685m above sea level- home of Mosuo people.Its additionally called Girls Kingdom given it still retains a matriarchal society. Women work prolongation as well as management. Children have been brought up in a mothers family. Men work for their maternal home as well as assistance raise their sisters children.

The lodging place we stayed in is located in Lige Village, which faces to a lake.I liked walking along a lakeside in a evening, watchful to see a afterglow entrance down to lick a mountains, a roofs as well as afterwards a lakeI took a pig trough boat float to watch a sunrise. It was a still 7AM morning. Every being of inlet was going to be woken up by a object soon. Last moment for sleep was so serene. we felt really pacific with a boating ladys singing as well as a receptive to advice of a waves.

A! Mosuo f amily planting potatoes. Behind them there lies Lion Mountain. we had a reduced conversation with them during their rest. They told me since of a drought this year, they could usually devise potatoes. And a healthy condition here doesnt allow most fruit or vegetables growing. They could usually pay some drivers to buy those kind of food from outward towns when theres a chance. It was additionally sad to hear a familys young kids had to go to school upon a alternative side of a mountain-the usually one in this area.

In Xingping Old Town of Yangshuo. Xingping is a small locale with over 1300 years story by Li River.Wandering upon a aged street, we transient from being chased by some business locals asking me if we indispensable a boat ride.

The people living here keep themselves in a wooden houses of 300 years old,with big boards as a door as well as a windows. Most of them sat around a list to fool around cards which is an common scene here.They just abandoned a outward complicated universe full of tourists.I theory theyve got used to which just as a plateau as well as a river here.Life stays a same to them.


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