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Shougong Geiru Yongqing weaves on a loom at her house. Photo: Li HaoGT Three-year-old twin Mosuo girls play in a storage room in the Shougong household. Photo: Li HaoGT An elderly Mosuo woman sits next to her loom. Photo: Li HaoGT
For hundreds of years, the Mosuo people have lived next to Lugu Lake in Lijiang, Southwest China's Yunnan Province in a traditional way, maintaining the only matriarchal society in China. But gradually, their society nike air solarsoft zigzag australia , which stretches from Yunnan to Sichuan Province, is breaking down as more and more young people choose to leave home and work in the cities. The UN has funded a program to revive their traditional handicrafts and keep the young women from abandoning their way of life, but the program has struggled as hand-woven fabrics have been priced out of the market by machine-woven garments.
Shougong Geiru Yongqing remembers leaning against her grandmother's loom when she was in elementary school and watching the wooden shuttle fly across the fabric. Sometimes her grandmother would start singing in Mosuo.
She started learning how to weave a couple of years later, like most girls in the village. And when she was 13, she wove her first piece of fabric by hand.
The 24-year-old lives in Walabi nike air max tavas australia , a traditional Mosuo village of 70 households in Lijiang, Yunnan Province. The Mosuo people are an ethnic group that live in Southwest China and maintain the only matriarchal society in the country. The Mosuo are a small group, with a population of around 53,000 in a country of 1.3 billion, or 0.004 percent of the total population nike air max typha australia , according to a report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
When she was young, every household had a loom and women often sat and weaved in their spare time. As tourism developed in the area, their fabrics became popular in nearby cities, turning their traditional arts into a big moneymaker. But nowadays, more and more young people are choosing to work in the cities and their traditional way of life is breaking down.
Staying back home
Shougong only came back to the village in recent years. She started working in the city of Lijiang when she was 13. Her sister had a shop back then that sold scarves and various traditional Mosuo products and her brother had a bar in the city. Since then nike air max 270 australia , she's worked in many jobs. She has waited tables at restaurants and worked in clothes shops.
But her maternal grandfather fell ill a couple of years ago, and at the time her older sister
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