Customs of the Talu

The Talu live of the agriculture using iron hardware, like those of the nearby Chinese. They water his fields with water of the river Talu. They give a lot of importance to the irrigation of the fields, and in fact, there are two liberated persons of being employed at the fields, which only deal with the share-out of the water, and are supported by other families.

They have some domestic animals, especially you will fit, but also pigs and chickens. The hunting and the fishing have little importance for them, and complete his economy with the honey and the medicines.

They weave short pieces of linen in which they dress themselves, work the wood doing objects for their own use; but they neither melt metal, nor have ceramics it nor came. These goods, as well as the salt and the tea obtain them trading in Yongsheng, where they usually take his domestic animals to sell. Since otherwise his economy is of personal consumption.

They have private ownership of the grounds, which they buy and sell, with what there happen the cases of that some work for others, but there are no landowners between them.

Every village is directed by an elder, who takes charge of the rites, to arrange the irrigations, to preserve the bridges. Only they exercise this position while the others think that his decisions are just. There is no power that he organizes to the villages, although in the past sometimes they were organizing themselves to defend themselves from the attacks of other peoples under occasional leaders, as in 1927-8 when they were attacked by Yi de Liangshan.

His villages are placed in half of the mountain, earlier, with a lookout to defend themselves from the attacks of Yi de Liangshan, in them surnames live the people of one or more, in a few houses similar to those of the Chinese of the outskirts. With the special characteristic of having a quarter for the young people, in which they support with entire freedom his sexual relations.

The girls dress from target up to the first menstruation, then they happen to dress of black, without difference between the married ones and not married, since it is not necessary, since so much earlier as after the marriage they enjoy sexual freedom.

His principal food is the rice, they like the tea butter, and a type of special cake called Saliva.

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