Abstract：Women of the southern minorities have extensive freedoms in social activities and sex, no mat-ter when they are married, after marriages, alone or in widowhood. Even though these freedoms are re-stricted to some extend, basically they enjoy an equal position as that of men. We can not explain this historical phenomena only with the theory of "vestiges of matriarchal society". Based on historical docu-ments and the annals of nationalities, this paper has discussed the phenomena to further understand the differences in social position and behavior of the two sexes under different cultures.
