Most countries and regions promote the concept of "male outside the female protagonist", but there is one place, but it is just the opposite.
The women there take care of all the farm chores, and the men only need to drink tea and chat at home.
This special place is located between laos and the border of mainland Yunnan, and the magical Akka tribe is the owner of this land.
The villages where the Aka people live are high and watery, the roads are not direct, and there is no electricity, so people live in isolation in a cloudy place.
Here, men have an absolute say, and they believe that procreation and labor are women's vocation.
Women not only need to have more than a dozen children in a row, but also have to support their families, but men have nothing to do all day, only responsible for taking children and drinking tea, which is simply an imperial life.
The day of the Akha woman begins with cooking and feeding the pigs.
The woman was called Oil Bridge, and after feeding the livestock and poultry, she was ready to take her daughter and daughter-in-law up the mountain to cut firewood.
And his husband, Bao Jin, sat leisurely, listening to the radio and holding up his teacup.
The women of the Akha tribe have endless work every day, and in order to improve efficiency, they even spin cotton while walking on the way to collect wood.
In the Akha tradition, women are forbidden to wear shoes, so they have to walk barefoot in the uneven mountain roads.
Once at their destination, the women began to work hard, and the oil bridge dragged a dry piece of wood from the jungle and then cut it into two pieces with a machete.
At this rate, she was soon able to return with a full load, and after three years of schooling on the oil bridge, she dropped out of school after her father's death and worked as a farmer with her mother, and unfortunately, it was not long before her mother also died of illness.
In order to take care of her younger siblings, she became the only support in the family, but no matter how hard she tried, the family was still destitute, and Youqiao had to marry Bao Jin, who was 12 years older than her.
At the age of 14, her first daughter was born, and after that, she gave birth to almost once a year, and now she has a total of 15 children, completely reduced to a "fertility machine".
Overproduction, combined with daily overload, causes the oil bridge to look much older than women her peers, 59 years old and 70 years old.
Even so, she couldn't stop for a moment, because once she stopped working, the children would starve.
The sun was scorching, everyone's mouth was dry, fortunately, the oil bridge had foresight, and before leaving home, she filled a full bottle of herbal tea, and she and her daughters were able to quench their thirst.
Near noon, the oil bridge hurriedly loaded the piles of dry firewood on the ground into the back basket, and then went home against the big sun, with a back full of wood, so that the women could not stand up straight.
Back home, the daughter who stayed at home prepared lunch early, and the three meals a day of the Akha tribe had to have rice and vegetables, and occasionally eggs, and meat was very uncommon.
Although the oil bridge raised many livestock, it was rarely slaughtered, because she had to keep the sale money for her younger son to save for school.
In the Akha people, traditional table etiquette is maintained, where parents eat at the same table as their eldest son, while other children, daughters-in-law and grandchildren can only eat at the small coffee table in the kitchen.
In addition, there are strict rules for women's dress and daily labor, as the head of the family only need to supervise the words and deeds of family members, a family of 12 people huddled in a narrow and dark house, began to enjoy today's lunch.
Bao Jin is the last village chief in the village, but also a famous "shaman", simply put, the local feng shui gentleman, mainly for the employer's family to exorcise, divination, blessing, preside over the red and white celebrations and so on.
It is said that this white paper full of mysterious pictures and texts was handed down by Bao Jinzu, which can indicate a person's life, old age, illness and death.
In the afternoon, when a neighbor's child has a cold and fever, his parents ask Bao Jin to preside over a ceremony to help the child exorcise the disease.
Bao Jin took out a bamboo basket like a sailboat, planted a white flag and a red flag on it, and then mentioned that throwing it away from the back mountain meant that the evil spirit was drawn out of the child's body and successfully expelled.
Coincidentally, after a while, the child did have a fever, and the child's parents were grateful to Bao Jin, but could this ritual really drive away the disease?
In fact, this is not the anti-fever medicine that parents give their children to play a role, but the remote and isolated Aka tribe, simple and naïve villagers, still believe in these non-scientific practices.
More than 30 years ago, Bao Jin, who returned from the army, migrated here with the villagers, and he planted three trees as markers in the back mountain, telling everyone that if these trees were cut down, the villagers would get sick, and tigers would break into the village and attack people and animals.
From ancient times to the present, the Acre tribe has maintained a traditional way of life.
Bao Jin's second son, Xi Tian,500, told his son that newborn babies should bask in the sun more.
Therefore, in the afternoon village, you can see many "family masters" holding children to soak up the sun.
At this time, it was the busy season of farming, and the poor woman, who had just given birth to a child, had to continue to work outside the house.
Women's tasks in a day are very heavy, and men watch them rush in and out, and they will not take the initiative to take the handle. They would only get together to chat, eat, or even lie directly in bed and sleep.
This custom has been passed down for centuries, and when women get married, they must wear the traditional costumes of the Akha people, and the headdress cannot be taken off casually, and they must wear it when they sleep.
Especially on the birthday of their parents, the Akha people believe that if they take off their headdresses on that day, they are cursing their parents for dying early, which is very unlucky. Therefore, the heavy headdresses of women can only be removed on the prescribed washing days.
The daughter-in-law of the oil bridge said:
I can't remember how much work I have to do every day, but I know that I haven't stopped since I got up in the morning. Feeding pigs, chopping firewood, planting, cooking, washing and carrying water are all part of her day-to-day work, and she can only go to bed after doing all the farm work.
The clothes of the Akha people even need to be made by the women themselves, who spin cotton into cloth in wooden looms, and then use indigo plants and slaked lime as fuel, and the exquisite clothes are ready.
In fact, the men of the Akha tribe are not useless, they sometimes go out hunting, and the two sons of Bao Jin found a new hunting spot, they took out tools to clean the weeds and branches, and then marked them for the next time, while also telling others that this was their territory.
Then the two men laid out the bait and left, and it was clear from their confident looks that this time they could buy meat for the family.
On this day, Bao Jin's youngest son, Jiang Luo, returned from school in the city, and every time he came home, he would take the collected old clothes as gifts to share with everyone. The whole family was delighted and prepared a sumptuous dinner to welcome the only reader in the village.
Bao Jin pinned all his hopes on this young son, who hoped that his son would return from school and work in the local government department, but at this point, Jiang Luo and his father had a serious disagreement.
City life and intellectual culture have broadened his horizons, he stands taller and farther than his father and brother, he said: After graduation, he wants to settle in the city and find a city girl to spend his life with.
Every 3 months, medical students will come to the village to vaccinate the children, and they will not only bring some vitamins and anti-bacterial drugs, but also popularize relevant medical knowledge.
Therefore, the villagers also gradually realized that the fever and cold had nothing to do with the gods, and they could be cured by taking medicine.
The new village chief, taking this into account, offered to move out of town from here, but the idea was opposed by the older generation.
The Akha people have lived in this land for a long time, and the traditional customs have long been branded on them, and it is difficult for them to accept the baptism of modern civilization.
However, when traditional civilization collides with modern culture, the best thing to do is to "take the essence and remove the dross."