Living with the Mosuo | The Last Matriarchy Where Fathers Simply Don't Exist | 4K Documentary

In the Mosuo language, there is no word for father. There never has been. On the shores of Lugu Lake, at 2,690 metres above sea level on the border between Yunnan and Sichuan, forty thousand people have been living for two thousand years in a society that the rest of the world calls a matriarchy — but that the Mosuo simply call home. Property passes through the mother. The family name passes through the mother. Children are raised by the mother and her brothers — the men of the household — while their biological father returns each morning to his own mother's home. There is no formal marriage. There are no illegitimate children. There is no concept of a paternal household. The eldest woman of the family, called the dabu, controls the home, the finances, and the decisions. The men fish, farm, and help raise their sisters' children. It has worked this way for two millennia. Inside this documentary, you will discover the walking marriage — the azhu relationship in which men and women choose each other freely, visit at night, and separate without property division or legal complication — the flower rooms where young Mosuo women receive their suitors, the sacred Lugu Lake that the Mosuo call the Mother Lake, and the tourism industry that has arrived in the past twenty years to observe a society organised entirely without the assumptions about gender and family that the rest of the world considers natural. Some places are different from the world. The Mosuo have always known that the world is different from them. #Mosuo #LuguLake #Matriarchy #China #WalkingMarriage #ImpossiblePlaces #TravelDocumentary #YunnanChina #IndigenousChina #4KDocumentary #WomensKingdom #AncientCulture #ChinaTravel #TribalLife #HiddenChina