Xishuangbanna, Stop 6 - Dai Village

On the third morning, we went to Manjinghan Village. Our guide was from the Xiaoyu No. 1 family. The girls here have the surname Yu, and the boys have the surname Yan (pronounced "ai"). The Dai culture here is matriarchal (shaoduoli) and patriarchal (maoduoli), and they dream of having daughters. Men have no inheritance rights, and when they get married, they have to pay a dowry. Boys are usually sent to the temple to study at the age of 7 or 8, and after three years, they return to secular life and learn a craft. Maoduoli who wear glasses and are burly are more popular (except for second-hand cats). The houses here are already in a new style, and no one lives on the first floor. Along the way, you can see a lot of home-grown dendrobium, a lot of longevity fruit (noni fruit, which contains natural xeronine), butterfly pea flowers (which can be used as blue dye and anthocyanin tea to nourish the eyes), mango trees, coconut trees, jackfruit, and starfruit. Silver belts are used to shape the waist. The unit price of raw silver is CNY 6, and the purest part is selected as snowflake silver, which is then processed into jewelry, bowls, combs, etc., and then sold and distributed by the cooperative.