Bear

Bear is the forefather, Lisu live in the mountains generation after generation with the ancestor's bless. You can't live without your father , forefather and grandpa. They're the foundation of the family and " life".

Land

Mountain god will tell you that " All lands need plowing". However, the land is not free,the bride price is too high to afford(why?), every family has some debt(the castles), but castles had been eaten by bears gradually,so men can't afford " lands".

Rich - the standard about " life"

Some standards and rich guys from outside came in, Lisu feel like that they have so little money that can't bear the " life". And the government puts,"to make village accessible to tourists by infrastructure ,your life will be much better. " When and How, standards about life has been changed?

Destiny

"Like spring breeze brings out buds." Everything has its position and destiny in the Lisu belief. But are there really something destined to happen? Undeniably,there are also some causal reasons to make life what it is. The bears eat fruits , unfortunately with some "bad guys" poaching and stealing trees to satisfy some foreigner's needs , the fruits for bears became less and less ,and the forefather came into the village to find something to eat. After many times "bad guy - rich guy - bear "loop, the family became poorer and poorer ,lead to such " destiny" to sell Jini.

Life

According to <The Art of Not Being Governed > by J.Scott, the ancestor of Lisu choose a life in the mountain like this due to the war and governance, and developed many strategies to escape the governmental power.But nowadays , they have no place to maintain past life, the outside world and people and standards came in . With accessible roads and vary goods, you just can't live like you were, everything around you will change despite of your own will .You can't escape from the structural power by simply kill some bears, but in some sense, that's the only thing you can do. The life per se has been already changed, forever.