Four Trips to Yunnan (Lijiang Part 3, Lugu Lake)

  • With whom:a person
  • Tour kinds: Photography, Humanities, Free Travel
  • Updated: 2022.03.09

Passing by the Jinsha River, I never imagined that the place where "the water of Jinsha River laps against the cliffs and warms the clouds" would no longer be roaring and noisy, but would appear before my eyes with such a gentle and azure face.

It must be the dams along the river that have tamed the unruly water.

Lugu Lake.

First impression: the water is incredibly blue. The mountains and rivers remain beautiful, making it a true pearl of the plateau embedded in the Liangshan Mountains.

Due to the legends of the Mosuo people, matriarchal society, and walking marriage, this plateau lake, shared by Ninglang, Lijiang, Yunnan, and the salt source of Daliangshan, Sichuan, has taken on a mysterious hue.

A day later, a driver told me that the Grandmother House and the worship of Grandmother are what the Mosuo people do!

In Caohai, I met an old man working in the fields. He said he was Mongolian.

It's said that in the early years, the Mosuo people in Sichuan were considered Mongolian.

Tourists often visit the Walking Marriage Bridge.

Walking marriage is probably a custom of the older generation, but judging by the clothing of the younger generation, it seems things have changed.


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