Lige Village
Lakeside Mosuo fishing hamlet on a peninsula shaped like an arm reaching into the water.
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This guide to Lige Village on Lugu Lake in Lijiang opens with a question: who hangs a hat on a doorframe before dawn and slips away unseen? It unpacks the Mosuo custom of walking marriage, where a mother's house rather than a husband's sits at the center of family life, and how a senior woman runs each household's finances. Log canoes called pig-trough boats, hollowed from a single trunk, still ferry people across the water the way they have for generations.
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