The marriage of the Lisu

Considering the different social situation of the Lisu, his marriage is very different from a few regions from others.

In Lijiang the families were generally monogamous, in them the maternal uncles preserve big power. They have sexual freedom before the marriage, without discrimination existing towards the children of the single mothers. The young people knew each other in holidays and social meetings, and formerly they had freedom of choosing his couple. In the last centuries they are the parents that it is organized, with matchmakers intervention, by fortune tellers who decide if his dates of birth are complementary, and a big exchange of gifts followed by a holiday.

When these norms could not follow one was resorting to different remedies, like the marriage for abduction in the region of Dehong and Nujiang, leaving the relatives before the perfect fact. The spouses' exchange that was done in Lushui, where every family was reaching port men and women. Or the marriage of Yongsheng, in which 7-8-year-old children were marrying 18-year-old women or more.

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