Moinba people mainly reside in Moutou, Nyingchi, and Tsona County. "Moinba" mean people who live in Monyu. Moinba Ethnic Minority has its own colloquialism, but there is no letter. Most of the people know Tibetan and use it. They believe in Lamaism, while some of them worship Originality Barbarism. The Moinba people's folk song is very beautiful with longinquity among which Sama wine songs and Kalung love songs are forthright and moving. The famous poem collection A Collection of Love Songs by Cangyangjiaco keeps many of the meters and styles of the Moinba love songs. The people mainly live on agriculture besides graziery and forestry.

Habitation

In the Monyu area, the residential rooms, which are in the middle storey, are spacious, with the fireplace (other than the hearth) in the middle of the room, with a supported iron tripod which is used to cook rice and boil water. The room is furnished with a Tibet an-style clothes closet and a wooden case, which are used to store rice or clothing.

Pans, bowls and butter are put in a cupboard, bamboo furniture and production tools are put in the corners indoors, or hung from overhead beams. There are no beds in the room, and people sleep on the floor on Bainiu mats, covered with Tibetan carpet or quilt; they sleep with their clothes on. Among the Moinba people in the east, there is a wooden stand at the right of the hearth and by the window when entering into the principal room. This is laid with cooking utensils or foodstuffs, such as a stone pan, an aluminum pan, bowls, bamboo scoop, packaged salt and fat, etc. This is the patriarch's seat, as he is responsible for cooking and distributing food. Brewing instruments are kept at the left of the hearth, where the housewife engages in her activities.

The upper corner of the wall is fully hung with horns and wolf's teeth that have been captured by hunters, and so on. The curved "Guodong" knives used by women for labor are put in a bamboo basket above the calabash and the "Guoda" hoes used by others for labor are put at the wall corner of the guest room or at the first small "Guopei" room upstairs. This small room is used for storing sundries and is where unmarried men or women live. It's also the where lovers meet lover. The waist knives and bows and arrows of hunters are hung on the wall at the left behind the principal room, or hung on the wood column of the principal room.

Women's treasures, such as silver girdle, necklace, headwear Bazhu, coarse silk cloth, Gawu, and gold and silver hand adornments and so on, are put in a three-layer case (the outside layer is a finely woven vine case, the next a bamboo-woven case, and inside is the small bamboo case for putting articles); the case is put beside the treasure jar. There is no large-sized furniture such as wooden cabinet in the principal room among Moinba people, which looks simple and spacious. There are no beds, and people sleep on floor. Fireplace is by the wall, and people sleep around it. Parents usually sleep at the left of the fireplace, children sleep in the middle, and married women sleep at the right of the fireplace and under the window.

Guests usually live in guest room. In winter, "Suideng" weaved with bamboos is laid, which has five or six layers and is warm, in summer, "Bada" weaved with banana peel is laid, which also has five or six layers and is cool. Some people also lay bearskin and wild ox skin as winter mattress. When Benzong (county head), Caoben (district head) or Lama is received, two "Suideng" or "Bada" shall be laid as cushion. Pillow is made of fine cut vine threads bundled into rectangle, with a clothes put on; old clothes is also sewn into a long bag, loaded with chicken claw and bran coat and crust, and hunters usually load with perfumed lint; some people fold multilayer banana peel into rectangle as pillow, and some use palm tree hairs as pillow; and many people use square wood as pillow, which depends on different peoples and different places. In summer, they sleep in dress, in winter, they cover with double layer quilt made of two layers of handloomed cloth; people in high and cold villages are covered with Tibetan quilt or more than on Tibetan garments. In the hot summer, people burn argyi leaf in their rooms to cope with mosquitoes for sleep.