The Hmong people are an indigenous group in East Asia and Southeast Asia. In China,the Hmong people are classified as a sub-group of the Miao people. The modern Hmong reside mainly in Southwest China and countries in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam,Laos,Thailand,and Myanmar. There is also a large diasporic community in the United States of more than 300,000. The Hmong diaspora has smaller communities in Australia and South America.
The Mid-Autumn Festival,also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival,is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night,corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. On this day,the Chinese believe that the moon is at its brightest and fullest size,coinciding with harvest time in the middle of autumn.
The Kam people,officially known in China as Dong people,are a Kam–Sui people and one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They live mostly in eastern Guizhou,western Hunan and northern Guangxi. Small pockets of Kam speakers are found in Tuyên Quang Province in Vietnam.
The Sui people,also spelled as Shui people,are an ethnic group living mostly in Guizhou Province,China. They are counted as one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
The Miao are a group of linguistically related peoples living in Southern China and Southeast Asia,who are recognized by the government of China as one of the 56 official ethnic groups. The Miao live primarily in the mountains of southern China. Their homeland encompasses the provinces of Guizhou,Yunnan,Sichuan,Hubei,Hunan,Guangxi,Guangdong,and Hainan. Some sub-groups of the Miao,most notably the Hmong people,have migrated out of China into Southeast Asia. Following the communist takeover of Laos in 1975,a large group of Hmong refugees resettled in several Western nations,mainly in the United States,France,and Australia.
The music of Yunnan,a province in southwestern China,includes the traditional music of many ethnic groups,including the Miao,Hani and Nakhi (Naxi),the last being the most numerous in the area.
The lusheng is a Hmong musical instrument. It has a long history of 3000 years in China,traced back to the Tang Dynasty. It is a mouth organ with multiple bamboo pipes,each fitted with a free reed,which are fitted into a long blowing tube made of hardwood. It most often has five or six pipes of different pitches and is thus a polyphonic instrument. Its construction includes six parts. It comes in sizes ranging from very small to several meters in length.
The Pollard script,also known as Pollard Miao or Miao,is an abugida loosely based on the Latin alphabet and invented by Methodist missionary Sam Pollard. Pollard invented the script for use with A-Hmao,one of several Miao languages spoken in southeast Asia. The script underwent a series of revisions until 1936,when a translation of the New Testament was published using it.
The Hmong people are an ethnic group currently native to several countries,believed to have come from the Yangtze river basin area in southern China. The Hmong are known in China as the Miao,which encompasses not only Hmong,but also other related groups such as Hmu,Qo Xiong and A-Hmao. There is debate about usage of this term,especially amongst Hmong living in the West,as it is believed by some to be derogatory,although Hmong living in China still call themselves by this name. Throughout recorded history,the Hmong have remained identifiable as Hmong because they have maintained the Hmong language,customs,and ways of life while adopting the ways of the country in which they live. In the 1960s and 1970s,many Hmong were secretly recruited by the American CIA to fight against communism during the Vietnam War. After American armed forces pulled out of Vietnam the Pathet Lao,a communist regime,took over in Laos and ordered the prosecution and re-education of all those who had fought against its cause during the war. While many Hmong are still left in Laos,Thailand,Vietnam,Myanmar,and China,since 1975 many Hmong have fled Laos in fear of persecution. Housed in Thai refugee camps during the 1980s,many have resettled in countries such as the United States,French Guiana,Australia,France,Germany,as well as some who have chosen to stay in Thailand in hope of returning to their own land. In the United States,new generations of Hmong are gradually assimilating into American society while being taught Hmong culture and history by their elders. Many fear that as the older generations pass on,the knowledge of the Hmong among Hmong Americans will die as well.
The Tai Dam are an ethnic minority predominantly from China,northwest Vietnam,Laos,Thailand. They are part of the Tai peoples and ethnically similar to the Thai from Thailand,the Lao from Laos and the Shan from Shan State,Myanmar. Tai Dam means "Black Tai". This name comes from the black clothing worn by the group,especially females. In Vietnam they are called Thái Đen and are included in the group of the Thái people,together with the Thái Đỏ,Thái Trắng,Phu Thai,Tày Thanh and Thái Hàng Tổng. The group of the Thái people is the third largest of the 54 ethnic groups recognized by the Vietnamese government. The Tai Dam's language is similar to Lao,but Tai Dam use their own unique writing system and traditionally rejected Buddhism. According to the Tai Dam's creation story,the Lo Cam family is to be the ruling class and the Luong the priests.
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Longlin Various Nationalities Autonomous County is an autonomous county,under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Baise,in the west of Guangxi,China,bordering Guizhou Province to the north. As of 2019,the county's population was 437,907 people.
The Gejia is an ethnic group of Guizhou province,southwestern China. They are officially classified by the government as a part of the Miao,but have a special status in Guizhou,but not recognized as independent from the Miao. The Gejia live mainly in Qiandongnan Prefecture,in the counties of Huangping,Kaili,and Guanling. They are concentrated in the towns of Chong'an,Chong Xing,Huangpiao in Huangping and Longchang,Wanshui of Kaili. Matang is exclusively inhabited by these people. There are over 400 inhabitants in this village. The total Gejia population is approximately 50,000.
Hmong people have a culture built on animistic beliefs and a strong faith that after death the soul reincarnates as one of many forms such as humans,plants,rocks and ghosts. Death is often considered the most important time for practicing rituals in the Hmong community because without practicing the necessary rituals the soul will roam for eternity. Hmong culture has been around for thousands of years and some of the rituals have slightly changed due to immigration and urbanization. Throughout time rituals have always varied from tribe to tribe therefore there is no one-way of performing the pre-funeral rituals,the burial rituals and the post burial rituals. However,the differences are minor and are aimed at achieving the same goal of reincarnation.
Nuo opera or Nuo drama is one of China's most popular folk operas. Characterized by its special features such as ferocious masks,unique dresses and adornments,the strange language used in performance,and mysterious scenes,Nuo opera has been selected as one of the non-material cultural legacies of China. The opera is a religious performance intrinsic to the culture of Nuoism,a type of Chinese folk religion. The purpose of Nuo opera is to drive away devils,disease and evil influences,and also to petition for blessings from the gods. Singing and dancing are included in Nuo opera and performers wear costumes and masks.
Taijiang County is a county in eastern Guizhou province,China. It is under the administration of the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. Taijiang County is a county under the jurisdiction of Qiandongnan Prefecture,Guizhou Province. It is located in the southeastern part of Guizhou Province and the middle of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. There are Highway 65 and National Highway 320 passing through the county. According to the seventh census data,as of 0:00 on November 1,2020,the resident population of Taijiang County was 122,861.
The Miao rebellions in the Ming dynasty were a series of rebellions of the indigenous tribes of southern China against the Ming dynasty,from the 14th to the 15th centuries. The Ming defeated the rebels with overwhelming force. Later,during the Qing dynasty,another series of Miao rebellions broke out.
This article lists the various Zhuang customs and culture of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture,Yunnan,China.
Kev Dab Kev Qhuas is the common ethnic religion of the Miao people,best translated as the "practice of spirituality". The religion is also called Hmongism by a Hmong American church established in 2012 to organize it among Hmong people in the United States.
Hmong:History of a People is a book by H. Keith Quincy,PhD,published by the Eastern Washington University Press. It was initially published in 1988 with a revised edition published in 1995.
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