Lhoba less of the population, mainly living in the Tibet region, Luo Yu County, Millington, Chayu, Luo Yu, County, Long Zi, and other counties. Lhoba do not have their own language, there is no nation on the history of literature, Tibetan, Chinese literature, has little to the source on the Lhoba ethnic and historical records. Although since the 1970s, a group of Chinese archaeologists in the Himalayas area was a number of valuable archaeological discoveries, but they were not sufficient to outline the activities of our ancestors Lhoba continuous history. As a result, the Lhoba people on the issue of source, can only be generated from the Himalayan tribes rich nation to explore the legend. Luo Yu, though superior to the environment, but because of external and less contact, Lhoba and social development is relatively slow, it was not until the 1950s patriarchal clan system retain strong residual. Lhoba the various clans living together has its own set of domains, and the area landscape, forests and public lands to the clan. Clan, most of the slope, as the border river. Members of the clan in the region opened up the free cultivation, hunting, collecting, building, launching the event, weddings or major foreign invasion, members of the clan have the obligation to help each other.

　　Post-harvest crops each year, Lhoba be held two days of the harvest festival, known as Angde Lin Festival, the village during the festival men and women dressed in costumes, each ready to bring out a good wine, sharing food festival. Living in the County, Millington Lhoba used in the vicinity of the Tibetan calendar, all the festivals and religious activities and Tibetan little difference. As the Lhoba live scattered and inaccessible different dates all over the New Year. Lhoba for hunting dogs made a contribution, Lhoba people at home are raising dogs, but does not bite, do not Kuangjiao, people are very friendly, very ferocious animal. Guests can not dog, the dog scolded, or else there is to be humiliated masters of the risk of being expelled.

　　Lhoba hi women wear woven linen Duijin Zhaixiu collarless shirt, a Waipi calf, lower body Wai Shanglue Tongqun tight over the knee, calf Guoshang legging, with both ends of the belt truss. They attached great importance to the wearing of decorations, with the exception of copper and silver bracelets, rings, there are dozens of blue-white color circle of white beads necklace, waist clothes Zhuiyou seashells strung together a number of the ball. Lhoba women's accessories can be as many as several kilograms of weight can be filled with a basket carried on the back Kotake. These accessories are derived from the exchange of each family for many years, the family is a symbol of wealth. Men's apparel show that the mountains are full of life character of hunting, they wear more wool woven into the black in the first set of Kanjian, and a long abdomen. Put on the back of a wild cowhide, with Browne at the Department of shoulders. Lupu in a Tibetan robe. Bo Gaer tribal man's hat is unique, with bearskin pressed into a circular, there are similar along the helmet. Mao Yan set at the top of a bearskin with the hair circle around Mao Xiong Zhang Peng forward. Hat would also up the back of a square piece of bearskin. This bear cap is very tough, the play can confuse when hunting prey. Men usually go out when the back of bow and arrow, Stock your Yaodao, tall body Reinforced with other flash of light decorations, especially mighty handsome. Lhoba both men and women enjoy a sophisticated system of belts, rattan as well as the leather production, it also uses the wool weaving and weaving a variety of color patterns. In addition to the belt used to bar the Department of dress, but also used to fly small knife, and other Huolian copper, produced by Tony accessories.

　　Lhoba food production methods, and their raw materials, climatic conditions, is closely related to lifestyle. Food production, rice is steamed and stewed, mainly dry food, rice and millet in southern China the same ethnic culture; surface is baked and roasted, with the main Assorted, portable and preserved in the north of China and Michael Shu culture of the same nation ; The production of fresh vegetables, meat and BBQ is a stew, vegetables are cooked or raw-ching, not steamed, fried, cooked, fried habits. Lhoba chili-rich region. Lhoba people like Chila, all meals, the table must be pepper. Luoba pepper or Luoba ethnic peripherals and the exchange of goods and materials for the main product. Luoba spicy chili and strong fragrance, favored, known far and near.

　　Lhoba honest hospitality, friendship and love. Where in the past into the pedestrian village, regardless of their nationality, men, women and close, the enthusiasm of all treat each other, as their loved ones. In case of married marriage gift, pedestrians can get past the VIP reception and invited to attend the wedding; case of hunting team has returned with a pedestrian in the past can participate in the equal distribution of clan and has been a member of the same. Luo Ba people have a set of special guests. Guests have the house ready for the seats, special reception by the hostess. Guests sit in the room, the hostess immediately Peng Shang Sheng dipper gourd with rice wine, standing in front of the guests, the first since a drink to show non-toxic, and then smiled, and advised into the hospitality. At this point, guests even have to drink three dipper, the only owner of satisfaction; see if the owner of the guests passed out, as has been known, particularly happy. This is a much-told tale of the "three-door Luoba ladle of wine."

　　Lhoba good wine, generally do not drink tea, love to drink. A lot of alcohol, do Laozao rice wine known as rice wine, sweet mellow; corn or do Submit your palmatum Valley, clear sweet and sour; "up market", "water chestnut up" and "white up" to do The wine is some of the tribes in the southern Luo Yu's day-to-day consumption, light refreshing, Jieshu Diabetes; there are bamboo flowers, beeswax or other fruit to do all kinds of raw materials to brew rice wine. Luoba guests who, on behalf of tea with wine. The host and guest-Syrian border while drinking, the Cup round of cross-light, very close. Chang also the masters of evil to retain guests to dine together. The staple food in order to entertain guests Kamameshi steamed rice stew cooked rice-based, and sometimes also used the stone bake the cake baked with and do Kamameshi palmatum Valley Tuo cake. Fresh vegetables are Shourou BBQ, fungus, mushroom mainly to pepper, wild garlic for seasoning. Lhoba Fencan habits, rice, vegetables were sung into the bowl of bamboo or wooden bowls, one per person, the right hand with three fingers grasping food. Guests before the meal, eat a master is always to show the sincerity of hospitality.

　　Lhoba There is also a special food in honor of the guests - Shurou Hill. Luo Shan Shu-yu, the great circle body fat, showed dust-color, Xi mountain home. Each of the 10 months to May the following year, is the best season for catching mice. It captured Shanshu, made of dried meat for festivals and hospitality. When you run or joint-Qing, the owner will use Shurou Kamameshi Dunlan, accompanied by dry hot pepper, garlic, and so wild, fresh meat is very delicious, in honor of the guests is the main course. Legend, the ancestors Lhoba Abadani Shanshu good catch, Shurou like eating, and put rat feast in honor of his wife, the daughter of the sun according to Ni Hai Dong, in accordance Pode Ni Hai Dong's favor. Since then, there Lhoba Shurou food habits.

　　Lhoba of monogamous marriage to the small families with both a small amount of polygamy. This form of marriage, and their community's stage of development. It features married outside the clan hierarchy within marriage and the combination. Outside the clan marriage is a man with the same clan can not marry the woman, to find a spouse, only to find out where the clan, the clan of men and women within marriage is strictly prohibited. With the original Lhoba disintegration of the communist system, in the form of private ownership and the emergence of slavery, and gradually formed a marriage outside the clan system with a combination of grades within the marriage system.

　　Lhoba marriage arranged by parents, children engaged in general is on for seven or eight years old. Is the general direction of the men and woman to marry him, the man can go directly to the parents, can also commissioned a reference to marry him. The two sides agreed to after the engagement, engagement when the man sent the woman to give pigs, rice, butter, wine gifts, and so on. After the engagement, the man started to have the woman sent to the price of marriage, probably at the age of Shiwu Liu to pay the price of marriage can marry. Lhoba the sale of the prevalence of marriage in the past. Lhoba in the language, there is no "wife" terms, only to buy his wife. A man of "buy" rating with a woman marry within, to use more than 78 cows, plus slaves and Tong Guo, food, ghee, and so on. Due to widespread prevalence of the sale of marriage, so the status of women is very low, even in the family property inheritance did not.

　 Lhoba in society, everyone over the past ownership of a different level. One is the so-called high-bone, a bone is low, high and low bone bone between the two types of marriage is strictly prohibited. All members of the class, only in their own hierarchy within marriage, which is level with marriage. Lhoba no matter which level of marriage, are realized in the form of the sale. Luo Ba in the language does not seem to "get married" term, only to buy his wife. Men want to get married, took the woman to buy property in the past. How much a woman of property, like his father to sell the same goods made clear that once the price agreed upon marriage, the husband must be paid in full in order to marry. Lhoba property in exchange for the trading in women, with the other items of exchange (the sale) the same way, retained a more primitive form. The level of married women prices vary from person to person, the higher the rating, the richer the family, marriage, the higher price will be. After the peaceful liberation of Tibet, the Lhoba marriage patterns, ideas, the status of men and women have undergone fundamental changes in marriage is not like half a century ago. Tribal hierarchy within marriage and within marriage has been to break through the limitations of the past, the marriage of persons and things in the sale and purchase of equality between men and women today have been replaced by pure love. A kind of freedom, harmony and independence of the new marriage and family relations is in the making.