Tourist attraction
走婚桥
Steel-and-wood boardwalk across reed-filled shallows, the courting ground of a matrilineal lakeside people.
0:00≈ 2 min
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0:00≈ 2 min
About this audio guide
This guide to the Walking Marriage Bridge in Lijiang is about the Mosuo people of Lugu Lake and their custom of walking marriage, where there are no vows and no shared house. It starts with a hat on a door handle and a bridge where young people met to sing, dance and size each other up. You'll hear about the flower room, the private bedroom a Mosuo woman keeps in her mother's house, and an older timber bridge that stood here before this one. Best heard leaning on the red railings, with the reeds on both sides.
This audio guide was created using AI.