Video: Who's the boss: matriarchy in the Chinese Moso tribe
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There are many anecdotes about who is the boss. All jokes, but the men of the Chinese Moso tribe (its unofficial name is the Kingdom of Daughters) know that it is women who rule the world. This amazing people lives in the southwestern province of Yunnan and today numbers about forty thousand people. This is the only settlement in China where matriarchy has been preserved for more than two thousand years.
Women in the Moso tribe do all the main work: they are housekeepers, solve social issues, are engaged in agriculture, hunting, cattle breeding … and the most courageous master the military business! Men are given a place in the service sector, trade and crafts, they are treated as the weaker sex. Often, men spend their time playing Chinese checkers and do not feel any remorse about their idleness.
A special approach in this tribe and to issues related to love and marriage. A woman chooses a man she likes ("a-sya") and can reject him at any time if he does not please her in some way. Moso women are not forbidden to have several "a-xia" at once, but this rarely happens, since in each one speaks a sense of justice ("it is necessary that everyone has enough").
In principle, the inhabitants of this nationality do not enter into marriages, the children are always raised by the mother. Amazingly, children, as a rule, are not interested in who their father is, in the Moso language there is no word for "dad". By contrast, any woman of the tribe can be called a mother. The birth of a girl for moso is a real holiday, a blessing of the gods, while boys are treated quite coldly.
Of course, the Moso tribe is an example of what the world could be like if women were at the helm. This alignment of forces can surprise even avid feminists. The Chinese woman Fen Ksioyan reflects on the issues of equality, in her opinion, the increasing role of women in society can lead to the emergence of women cyborgs, who may well do without representatives of the strong half of humanity!
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