The Marriage Moso

The Moso practise the only form of marriage between the peoples of China: a type of matriarchy modified in some aspects for the step of the centuries. It is thought that long ago the Chinese society was matriarchal, that of some of his peoples indigenous to has been until a few centuries ago.

Between the Moso there is no marriage as one deals with Occident. Good called azhu practises the marriage on himself, for that the men go to the house of the woman after dusk and go out of the same one before the dawn. That does not mean that the women change lover every night, although they might do it, but the man has not any right on the woman, not on the children that this one could have.

The relations between the men and the women last, therefore, only the time that his love lasts; and when this one is finished, the couples separate. If the relation is prolonged the children know who his father is, although this concept in itself does not have any relevancy for them. The important thing for the children there is the family in which they spend the life, in which the maximum authority is the grandmother.

Under his tutelage his daughters and children live, as well as the descent of his daughters, who, on having come to the adulthood, are provided with a proper room to receive his lovers.

This system of feminine power has coexisted in the last centuries, with a system of masculine power, in which the men were occupying the principal roles of the political and religious power, especially from the arrival of the religion lamaísta to his grounds.

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