Exploring the Mysterious Queen Valley in Sichuan, China: The strange customs of a daughter marrying a husband

Queen's Valley is located in the Hengduan Mountains of the Himalayas. It is the ancient name of the upper reaches of the Dadu River in places such as Jinchuan and Jinchuan in western Sichuan, China. This area is eroded by glaciers and currents, forming alpine canyons with an altitude of about 5000 meters. In the canyon area at an altitude of about 200 meters, the river is surrounded by steep cliffs around it.

Since ancient times, people have called the tribes living thousands of miles around the Merdo Mountain "Gamo Chawarong"."Gamo" refers to the queen, and "Chawarong" refers to the river valley, which together means the Queen River Valley. This name comes from the Tibetan word "rGyalmorong", which means "Queen's Valley".

There are many beautiful women in the Queen's Valley. They have the background blood of ancient Shu and Yi people, and the mixed blood of powerful ethnic groups such as the Mongolian people of the Yuan Dynasty and the Manchu people of the Qing Dynasty. They have healthy bodies and slender figures. Not only are women beautiful like flowers, but men are tall and straight.

Women have a higher status: cultural elements such as female worship, polyandry, walking marriage without regular sexual partners, advocating youth, and living in diaolou have influenced the Yalong River Basin and Dadu River Basin to this day. The scenery of Queen's Valley: It integrates the mysterious ancient feng shui theory with the strong religious and cultural heritage to achieve the best state of "harmony between man and nature".

Girls in the Queen's Valley all wear pleated skirts, which is extremely rare in Tibetan areas. Except for the custom of wearing pleated skirts in rural areas near the Naxi area due to the influence of the Mosuo people, there is no custom of wearing pleated skirts among Tibetans in other Tibetan areas. Therefore, the custom of wearing pleated skirts may be the Queen's preference. It became a fashion that continues to this day.

Deep into the Queen's Valley, the Tibetan-style watchtowers on the banks of the Dajin River used to shoulder the responsibility of defending fortresses and beacon towers. There are many types of ancient blockhouses here, including beacon towers, boundary towers, home towers, four-corner towers, octagonal towers, etc. There is also an inclined tower with an inclination of more than 30 degrees, which is greater than the leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy. It can be called the ancient blockhouse kingdom.

In the past, the city gates and wall bases of the local governor's watchtowers can be vaguely seen with strong defense and reasonable structure. The local people in the central area were called "Mengzagu", which means "Queen's Palace". Matriarchal society is very popular here, with traces of genital worship. For example, the majestic stone pillars visible when there is fog in the Merdo Mountains are male reproductive gods worshipped locally; some ancient blockhouses also have differences between "mother blockhouses" and "male blockhouses". When the "mother blockhouses" were built, wooden strips similar to the lines of a female pleated skirt or female vulva were protruded, and the "male blockhouses" had male genital objects protruding from them; the frog-shaped pots produced here are unique to Danba and are also a symbol of female fertility; The simmering mulberry trees on the watchtower are also divided into male and female. The male is solid, and the female is used for simmering mulberry smoke.