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When women rule the roost

By Zhou wa | China Daily | Updated: 2011-09-27 07:46

When women rule the roost

Mosuo men have responsibility for their sisters' children.

In the old days, when a Mosuo girl turned 13, her family provided her with a windowed room on the second floor of the house, called the "flowering room".

When night fell a suitor would sing under her window, in order to win her heart.

When women rule the roost

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