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The Visiting-marriage Custom of the Mosuo 云南师范大学外国语学院 英语教育专业 09级094班 友巧丽 094050123 The Visiting-marriage Custom of the Mosuo 外院英教094班 友巧丽 094050123 As a branch of the Naxi minority, the Mosuo People living by the Lugu Lake still keeps the lifestyle of matriarchal families. The Axia marriage featuring a kind of Visiting-marriage is a special tradition of the Mosuo. Axia in the Mosuo language means “lover” or “close companion”. The Axia marriage is quite special that a man does not take a woman home as his wife or woman does not marry off. When a man and a woman fall in love with each other, the man will go to the woman’s house at night and work and live in his mother’s family during the day. They don’t organize a common family and has no common economic relations. Children are taken care of by the maternal family and follow the kinship of the mother. According to the Visiting-marriage, a man and a woman are free to choose whether to be together with or depart from each other. This marriage system keeps the feature of the matrilineal because the kinship of the mother is the key relationship of the “family”.( 《南特有民族文化知识》之纳西族 ) Some people think that the Visiting-marriage is one of the most open and human love forms ,as couples can be changed constantly, which provides a broad love life space for the young women and men, who are in sexually active period , and a full selection process to choose and decide their final and ideal companions. However, the custom of Visiting-marriage is quietly changing, more and more Mosuo has begun to say “no” to their tradition.（摩梭人对走婚习俗开始说“不” 新浪博客 ） Certainly, the shake of the Mosuo youth to the custom has some reasons. According to various surveys, as to the man, once having a lover, they will be bogged down in trouble and anxiety. First, the factor of unstable companion makes them afraid that there w