Spotting someone is always on the hidden agenda of party like this. Bonfire party is where the so-called walking marriage takes its first step. Women here pick and choose a male companion for the night or a year or a lifetime. Time has changed of course. Now it has become a sort of beginner’s class in muso dance for tourists.

The morning officially starts after the grandma wakes up and has paid her daily respect to the god of fire. Then the breakfast can be served.

Here is center of a muoso family--the open fire in front of the shrine of the god of fire, Ganbala that represents family, clan, ancestor and religion. To honor the god of fire, the open fire is never put off in a mosuo family.

Grandma’s house is the living room, dining room and meeting room of the whole family. All important occasions and events take place here, including the breakfast that requires the presence of every family member.

Mosuo family loyalty is centered around women and Property belongs to the family and the principle is to "share" other than "to possess. A grown man is expected to shoulder his responsibly in a family by living with and taking care of his mother and his sisters’ children all his life, as uncle. His own children stay with the mother in her mother's house, where he visits occasionally and help in need as relative, never as "the other half".