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The basic unit of Jingpo society is the husband
and wife; however, in the past, some of the
richer Jingpo people practiced polygamy. Any
inheritance would go to the youngest son who
supported his mother and father.
Wine is important
to the Jingpo. It is served to guests and shared
by friends and acquaintances. They usually carry wine
in a bamboo wine tube that is never be totally
emptied, symbolizing that the wine will
never be exhausted.
Economically, life has improved for the Jingpo.
They have worked to transform forest areas into
tea plantations or orchards and have reclaimed
mountain slopes for use as fields. Highways
have been built on Jingpo Mountain.
Life has
also improved socially. In the early 1990s,
two Jingpo writers won prizes for short works
they had written. In addition, Pa Mo, a Jingpo
woman, was awarded a prize at the Chinese Nationalities'
Excellent Literary Works for her novel, the
first written in the Jingpo language.
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