Presenting the Moso

The Moso live on the border between the provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan, in the oriental spurs of the Tibetan plateau. A few vales about the Lake Lugu, placed to 2700 meters of altitude and a succession of steep mountains deforestadas in major or less grade as his accessibility. In Yunnan, Autonomous County of Yi de Ninglang, and in Sichuan, in Autonomous Autonomous Prefecture of Liangshan, county of Yanyuan and County of Muli.

The Moso are called themselves the same Na. There are no a few precise statistics on his population. This is because there are one of the minorities that still has not been recognized as such by the Chinese Government, for what according to the sources his population ranges between 20.000 and 50.000 persons. In fact, in the Province of Yunnan it is said that the Moso are a branch of the Naxi, while in Sichuan they are considered to be Mongols. Since there is no physical border between the provinces, there happens the paradox of which the Moso that live to a hundred of meters, which dress the same clothes, profess the same religion, they have a common history and speak the same language, there are according to the government two different peoples: A palpable sample of the need of informing the obsolete criteria used till now for identification of the ethnic groups in China.

In spite of not being identified like people, it is not possible to say that the Moso should suffer an imminent extinction threat. In fact, his culture survives with big vigor, although it is difficult to foresee the influences that they will suffer for the tourists' massive arrival to his grounds.

The true thing is that the culture of the Moso is only, therefore it has fascinated from immemorial time travelers and students. In fact between them the last matriarchy of China is supported. With families structured concerning the women and husbands lacking in rights who visit them in the nights.

His language belonging to the family tibeto-birmana, branch yi-naxi, is classified officially like a dialect of the Naxi, but the proper linguists warn on the incapability to communicate between the Naxi and the Moso, by what in any country that was not China it would be considered to be an independent language.

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