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  • @Kratos0909

    No, Hmong did not get it from the Chinese. I'm sorry, but you don't know anything about the Hmong people.

  • i think the Hmong and Chinese are similar in some way.

    they both have last name such as Lee, Li, Chan, Chang, Yang, Hang, etc.

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  • What? Is Jet Li really Miao? This is the second movie I've seen him with the Miao e in it.

  • HI, I like the song in the movie. Is anybody know what is the title of the song or where can I find it????????? Please help.... :)

  • @angelanamraka

    check this version

    v=ynutfKdqa7U

    hope you like it...

  • @angelanamraka it is not easy to get this version in the internet (pirated version), because it is not as popular as the original ones sung by Sam Hui and Huang Zhan. this version u heard in this clip can be found in the original album/soundtrack. the name of the song is 沧海一声笑 (cānghǎi yīshēng xiào), originally written by 黄沾 (Huáng Zhān). there are at least 4 mainstream original versions to the song that are more popular (among the males).

  • @angelanamraka  it's called "Laughing at the World"

  • @angelanamraka 滄海一聲笑~google ~MP3~

  • Bruce lee and Jet li are hmong/miao blood,please remember that last name lee is hmong branch.

  • @mrrojntshavhmoob what ever makes you sleep at night. they are catonese.. straight up enemys.. hmong only got 4 sects. catonese and madarian rule the world.. qing and jin are now in burma the world is rule by rebels

  • @mrrojntshavhmoob ohh...yeah, there is at least-least a small percentage of hmong blood in them, cuz they will never have a 100% of fullest China.

  • HEY THE LADY ARE HMONG HMONG LADY ARE SO BEAUTIFUL.. HMONG LIVE FOREVER

  • HEY THE LADY ARE HMONG HMONG LADY ARE SO BEAUTIFUL

  • HEY THE LADY ARE HMONG

  • me encanta esta cancion alguien me puede dar el titulo

  • the shouldve made the song part longer its so short and its a really good song

  • the girl with the flute is hot whats her name?

  • Why did they write hmong at the top for?

  • @princejmye Because these people that starts at 1:00 are hmong, the way they dresses (most noticeable is the hat) and the huge flute they play (called Qeej), a traditional hmong woodwind instrument.

  • @Saeng1021 yeh i see it now, lol cant believe i miss that, one more question are you hmong? nyob zoo?

  • @princejmye They are hmong chinese, miao.

  • @Saeng1021 The Hmong have nothing to do with the Chinese, ethnically speaking. They are as different from Chinese as they are from the Japanese...or the French. There is practically no relation at all, other than that the CCP forcefully coerced the term "Chinese" on them. Ethnic Chinese are called "Han" and was originally a northeastern asian group whereas Hmong is indigenous to the south and their language related to southeast asian languages.

  • @gariadara

    originally a northeastern asian group? that's not true. Chinese is a mixture of people from all regions of China. The Chinese language itself is related to southeast Asian languages.

  • @niamtxiv No, that is simply wrong. I'm not talking about the Chinese Communist Party's definition of the Chinese nationality. I'm talking about the ethnic-linguistic identity of the people responsible for the building of the ANCIENT Chinese civilization. These people are of a very very SPECIFIC ethnic identity: the Hans. The Hans are descendants of the older tribal Huaxia, and are a mixture of the Huaxia tribes along the Yellow River and the Northeastern Dongyi.

  • @niamtxiv The Yellow river is quite northerly located. Just because the Huaxia expanded and MOVED west and south does not mean they are a mixture of the indigenous people they came in contact with. For most of Chinese history, the Huaxia DISPLACED the indigenous populations, not mixed with them. Chinese language is part of the Sino-Tibetan Language family and this family is completely UNRELATED to the Austric language family (southeast asian languages). They are completely different.

  • @niamtxiv If you are referring to Sino-Tibetan's relation with Tai-Kradai languages, this had not been univerally accepted by all linguists. Burman and Tibetan are less "southeast asian" in origin than they are Himalayan in origin.

  • @niamtxiv in other words, the ancestor language to all Sino-Tibetan languages may have had a "west asian" place of origin, not southeast. In fact recent studies posit that Sino-tibetan may share a clade with central asian, siberian and north cauacsian (not to be confused with "caucasian race," which speak indo-european) language families. By the time the Old Chinese language took shape, it was spoken by a people located in the north of China.

  • @gariadara Where did you get this information?

  • @Saeng1021 I minored in anthropology and linguistics.

  • @gariadara Maybe you misunderstood what I wrote. I say they were hmong chinese as in hmong who live in china and speaks the language. This doesn't mean they are chinese. Hmong are their own ethic group which is why they are not call chinese.

  • @gariadara Of course this does not mean they have nothing to do with the chinese, matter of fact, the majority of hmong people lives in China.

  • @Saeng1021 I said that Hmong have nothing to do with the Chinese race ETHNICALLY speaking. I specifically made that distinction. I thought that was clear. Sorry for any confusion.

  • @gariadara If that was the case then why even make such a reply when your statement doesn't even relate to what I wrote.

  • @Saeng1021 oh it relates. The term Hmong Chinese is not a good term to use generally. Hmong Minority is a better term and avoids confusion as it only takes into consideration the geopolitical aspect of the Hmong in China and leaves any perceived ethnic relation with Han-Chinese out.

  • @gariadara Your over thinking it, there is no confusion. But if you want to see it as hmong minority then so be it, it doesn't matter either way.

  • @gariadara For example if there were hmong in japan, I would call them hmong japanese, not japanese. Of course this does not mean they are related to japanese people in any way.

  • Only Americans do this thing where they insert the ethnic identifier before the country of citizenship. This is okay because America is not a nation-ethnicity. Both China and Japan are. Those are places where the name of the nation is also the name of the ethnic group that founded the nation. The Japanese themselves would not refer to a Hmong living amongst them as any sort of "Japanese." Not until he adopts a Japonic name, taking up the Japanese (Yamato) ethnic identity.

  • @gariadara Not just only is it an american thing but even the hmong people separate themselves from each other (hmong chinese, hmong thai.. etc). This is mainly because they don't have a country of their own or an accurate history of the hmong... but we can assume that the hmong people came from china where the majority are.

  • @gariadara I'm not much of a history person on the hmong so I may be wrong but however from my experience, hmong thai speak differently and even dress different from hmong chinese and this isn't related to green and white. They do not speak of hmong as in hmong in general but where they from (thailand, laos, or china). So when I told princejmye that these are hmong chinese, he understood what i meant. For you, I would assume you don't know much about the hmong people.

  • I understood you. I simply do not agree with defining the Hmong by way of the geographic location they reside in. I know the differences between Hmong in different countries as well as the different tribes of Hmong. What I'm concerned with is placing the term Hmong BEFORE the country wherein they reside, thereby rendering the term an adjective. A Hmong Chinese would thus be Chinese, he is simply a "Hmong" one. You should say: Chinese Hmong, or Thai Hmong, where Hmong is the modified word.

  • @gariadara Like I say, your thinking too deep into this. Your only confusing yourself. Anyone who knows hmong would understand what I meant, it's pretty much common sense nowaday.

  • @gariadara You misunderstood what I wrote.

  • @Saeng1021 When someone is called a "insert ethnic group"-American, they are FIRSTLY American, their ethnicity simply describes what kind of American they are. Whereas I do not believe this should apply to the Hmong people. They should be chiefly Hmong, and described via the place of residence. In the same vein as Jews are described. Iranian Jews, German Jews, Polish Jews, etc. That way, the emphasis is placed on this group of disparaged people and NOT the Chinese or the Thai.

  • @gariadara If that how you want to view it. However as how hmong people describe it, it's place-ethnic. That's how it always been and will always be, even in the hmong language, it is the same thing.

  • @gariadara The reason I put hmong before of the location is merely because it is spoken in the hmong language as such. for example hmong chinese in hmong is "hmoob suav" not "suav hmoob". Same concept with thai and lao.

  • @Saeng1021 are those people hmong?

  • @princejmye If you want to know more about the miao, wikipedia is the answer.

  • i thought this was hmong dubb

  • wow, never saw this before. Those are definatly qeej they playing, and the clothes look like miao. that would be pretty sweet if jet li had a little hmong in him =D im pretty sure hmong people, chinese people, korean and japanese are all related somehow

  • It makes perfect sense:

    1)the background is set in Ming dynasty.

    2)they lived in Sichuan.

    3)Hmong moved into southern Sichuan during Ming dynasty when many Han Chinese moved out of it due to warfare & poor harvest.

  • 4)it accurately portrays government persecution against Hmong that first started to intensify during Ming dynasty.

    5)martial arts regained popularity among Hmong people in response to government persecution (most styles practiced by Hmong today trace back to this time).

    6)Hmong did not hate other ethnic groups in general. Their resistance movement often contained half a dozen ethnic groups, incld. Han Chinese.

  • However, that altercation with Japanese is pure fiction, tailor-made for Han Chinese nationalists.

  • @milvipes This movie actually a remake of Ly Touby and Lo blia Yao.

    Two Hmong clans fighting for Political position

    Yes.. the Japanese is pure fiction is this movie... There's no written history of Hmong supporting the Japanese during the Ming Dynasty...But the real Hmong history...some did...during the First Indo-Chinese war in Laos

    Ly Touby supported the French and Royal Lao regime

    Lo Blia Yao supported the Imperial Japanese troops

  • if i cant understand a word then it's not hmong/miao you jerks

  • the song name please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • There not hmong but their costume is.

  • anyone know where i can download this song? with the girl singing it?

  • jet li is not hmong.

  • Ninja! I love shinobi

  • where can i get this version of the song that she sing in the beginning

  • I also read a post on a site awhile back and it stated that Jet has a Miao background. I guess that's why Jet is always depicting Hmong/Miao clothing and cultures in his Chinese flicks.

  • Jet Li is the most creative person ever. In this movie, Master Asia's red and white robe contained the teaching of her powers. Master Asia is also Hmong/Miao. It totally represents the Hmong clothing. It goes with the saying that our knowledge can be found in our clothing. I don't know how to saying it in Hmong. I totally never thought of that until now. Also and what was written onto scrolls are just copy and will never grant you true knowledge.

  • as if i'm not Hmong enough lols

  • hmong are a BIG part of this world. we are part of the peace. we could of start WW3 if we want and we have the RIGHT to start it. other people dont realize it but its all good cuz they will never know the answer why we hmong survivor after al lthese torture. we will live FOREVER. we will NEVER extinct

  • It depicts a time when Ming intensified its campaign against southern rebels, lead by Hmong. It was not simply an inter-ethnic conflict, as many Han, Lolo, & Tai joined the rank of Hmong rebels. The depiction of Han warriors confronting Ming officials alongside Hmong is historically accurate.

    As for the Japanese pirates, well, nobody likes common bandits, Japanese or Chinese.

  • well those are the strangest hmoob folks i've ever seen.........and I'M hmong

  • If you think Ming was bad, Qing was borderline genocidal. Hmong exodus reached its peak during the reign of Yongzheng.

  • @milvipes

    YUP. Qing, especially under Yongzheng, were routinely murdering Hmong/Miao. But that's also because they were brutally taxing and oppressing Hmong/Miao, which caused a backlash of frequent rebellions, which were further crushed. Each success rebellion created a wave of refugees and exiled leaders and their militia fighters that had to move higher and higher into the highlands or into Indochina.

  • @milvipes ming not bad Qing was a manchuria my great great granddad serve the qing reign of kang xi governor general of huhan

  • @aaron654lo Can't say I dilike Qing as a whole, but some ethnic groups did suffer disproportionally under Manchu rule, notably Muslims.

  • @milvipes Qing the 300 years old empire was overrun by the england france germany russia american japan powers then sun yet sen rise up

  • Most of Hmong Chinese became Chinese people.....they became other paople ..so plaese dont forget who they are.. or who you are..cause dont let your people or name gone.....make it name Hmong stay forever and keep making good and love each other more...Then our Hmong would live forever maybe we will have a land or place that belong to our of us....Hmong!!!

  • I agree, someday well have a land off our own. But this time lets stand togeother under one banner. And not divided

  • I love the swordsman movies man, and this song is always there in my head.

  • i have an old videocasset hmong dubbed version of this!!! nice to hear their real voices! ^__^

  • does somebody have the whole song from the girl

  • Lmao, nice this is the original of Jet Li in the Movie Legend of the Swordsman! NIcE!! Good day people time for Breakfest.

  • isnt there a hmong dubb....wats the name of it of hmong?

  • yea it is at 3:12 she say drink wine giving the wine jar to the other lady... donot if we Hmong and Chinese using the same words.

  • she did said drink wine in hmong

  • what are japanese doing in ancient china and in southern china of all place? I know it's a movie but...

  • In true historical event, this movie is actually depicting about our two old clan leaders, Lo Blia Yao & Touby Lyfoung. Two Hmong powerful clan leaders fought each other for political power during the first Indo-Chinese War.

    Ly Touby supported the colonial French

    Lo Bliayao supported the Imperial Japanese

  • The original novel has different factions fighting for power. This movie adaptation also focuses on the many historical power struggles. The Miao have been oppressed by the Han Chinese for centuries. Dong Fang Bu Bai (Master Asia) despises the Han and imprisons his older brother Wu to steal the sacred scroll and become powerful so he can overthrow the Ming Dynasty government and become a national hero to his people.

  • He allies with a faction of displaced Japanese warriors who lost a power struggle in Japan against Toyotomi Hideyoshi (who is now invading in Korea in hopes of eventually conquering Ming China) The Japanese actually want to betray Master Asia and gain the power for themselves so they can take over Japan and China. Ling Wu and his group of Chinese swordsmen are on their way to seclusion from the martial arts world after their betrayal by their master for the sacred scroll.

  • They end up caught in the power struggle and Ling Wu unknowingly falls in love with Master Asia who has castrated himself to become a female and turns homo. He falls in love with Ling wu and loses sight of his original goals. It's pretty gay but damn Bridgett Lin is hot, I would fall for her too lol.

  • Well this Movie fantasy is depicting about two Hmong clan leaders fighting one another. The (Good) Hmong clan (along side with Jet Li) is supporting the Chinese Ming Dynasty and the (Bad) Hmong clan is supporting the Japanese pirates.

  • Japanese are no strangers to China in ancient times. It's right across the sea. Southern China has a history of Japanese piracy. The Japanese depicted in this movie are pirates.

  • @HmongChaoFa Those are Japanese pirates that were hired by Master Asia. Pirates aren't always in the West and in the Carribean, they're everywhere.

  • its miao she said drink wine at 3:12

  • jet li is hmong, that is why he is so good at kung fu muaha

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  • He is Hmong stupid. Get real.

  • Okay, lets not call each other stupid. It's uncivil and immature. He speaks Mandarin. What's your proof?

  • Notice the Miao characters are speaking in a Sichuan Dialect. Sounds really neat.

  • lol. I thought they were speaking in Cantonese. lol

  • Sichuan dialect is, for the most part, the same as Mandarin but the big difference is their tones are different so it sounds very different if you cannot understand Mandarin. When I first heard it, I thought they were possibly Cantonese or other dialect speaking Mandarin with a heavy accent lol. It sounds alot like when foreigners speak Mandarin without knowing the right tones haha.

  • When, I did notice it sounds a bit like Mandarin and Cantonese. I know Chinese have many dialects, but I'm not familiar with other dialects. Thank you for letting me know.

  • I wonder if the Hmong in Sichuan speak with this Sichuanese dialect and Miao in Chongqing etc.

  • @niamtxiv I thought it was mandarin.

  • This was during the end of the Ming Dynasty when a rebel leader name Zhang Xianzhong reconqueror Szechuan and later decimated the population of Szechuan; killing over 3,000,000 people.Then when the Qing Dyansty took power in China; a massive resettlement program took place and most of the people that resettle in Szechuan were southern natives such the Miao/Hmong people to repopulate the region again.

  • After the conquest of Szechuan and resettlement of Northern immigrants, this is how Mandarin came into Hmong daily speech.

  • Yes u are correct...It does sounds like a foreigner speaking mandarin..I believe what u're saying true..Sichuan dailect recently became a dailect of Miao/Hmong because of the massive resettlement that took place there.

  • With a population of 13 millions, disagreements are abound to happen. And with million men on each side of the argument, it can get quite ugly: open warfare. Remember how Hmong fought each other during the Vietnam war?

  • does anyone know the title of this song?

    i know its gotta be some chinese folk song.

    Hhaa, i saw one of stephen chows movie in which he was singing it (terribly) hahhaa.

    Funny though.

  • Great video! I have this movie too.

    Just curious, have anyone heard that Li Lianjei 李連杰, aka Jet li to the west, mentioned that he was originally Miao decendent and was born in raised in Beijing, raised to speak Mandarin but still has the heart of a Miao decendent, who believes in Tibetan buddhist phylosophy? I mean it's great if it's true, but it doesn't really matters if he's Miao/Hmong or not, he is still a great actor and will always be a great role model and a Zhonggren citizen.

  • Who knows what ethnicity is Jet Li. lol I still wonder. lol

  • hes a Mandarin chinese from the main land of china. hes not hong kong people hes the main land people. the differeneces are that the mainland are like speaking like the word chu or shu well thats what i think. the hong kong people kind of speak like vitnamese but they always have that cong cong cong so yeah i think thats the differences lol

  • There are also different dailects in Mandarin when spoken from the north to the south and Hong Kong is part of Mainland but speaks Cantonese. They are very similar to IndoChina Hmong green and white dailect. Often times they get confuse for the same word spoken but sometime means totally different. See in Mainland Zhongguo, I saw that most Miao dailect are similar to Hmong US green dailect rather to white dailect. And these are the differences between Mandarin and Cantonese speaking.

  • i remember my sister telling me she saw a video that jet li had claimed to be miao/hmong, and was able to speak the language too.

  • True. Jet li was on a late night show a few years ago after he acted in Romeo Must Die, I believe. I cannot get any archives of this video clip; however, I found out the there was also a qoute on this site stating he's 100% Hmong but grew up in China. Just like if we are 100% Hmong but grew up here in America, even some of us doesn't even speak Hmong as much just like it in Zhongguo.

    See reference below.

    celebritywonder (dot) com/html/jetli_trivia1(dot) html

  • hehe, maybe he is. There are many Hmong living in the cities who only speak Mandarin.

  • I'm not sure if it's true or not, but I heard that his parents moved to Beijing from the south, not sure which province, due to work relocate or may be politics, who knows. His father, later, died when he was 2 and his mother wants him to attend a wushu martial art school to be trained obedient, discipline, and confident youngman. That's probably how he came to be.

    Yes, there are many Miao/Hmong who lives in many huge cities; however, they all speaks Mandarin, the dominated dailect.

  • Notice that he always include things that resemble the Hmong culture, from Fearless, the peasant girl wore Miao designs on the headdress and arms, from The Mummie, Michelle Yeoh wore a Miao long skirt outfit. According to what I've found, Jet Li did stated that he was Hmong in some late night talk show. lolol Maybe, he has Miao root in him.

  • Exactly. I've been doing a few research about him and he seems to have many similar background that may linked him to be Hmong. Examples, in several movies that he acted in as you stated in Fearless& Mummy, even in Fong Sai Yuk 1 & 2, Warlords, etc. They all have scenes that either relates to Hmong or can be other ethnics. However, most of his movies are to balance life between obedience to consequence, love to hate, civilians & politicians, etc. If you just pay a good attention of the movies

  • it sure makes sense.

    I once logged on to his Jet LI (dot) com site and, believe it or not, there were a blog that you can choose to chat in either English, Mandarin, Cantonese, or Hmong. Imagine that! hehe I have log on for awhile so I'm not sure if it's this there. I know a few people have asked the question if Jet Li was Hmong/Miao decendent, but never have been replied. Although, if he is Hmong or not, he is still a master, modern master a good sense of humor role model.

  • @niamtxiv really? That's so awesome! you happen to know where i can find that? the whole late night show thing...

  • @niamtxiv What late night talk show was that?

  • Lookes like a great movie! I like Chinese movies! They has so high quality, and beautiful clothes! Thanks, my friend for sharing!

  • I loved this movie as a child & still am :)

    Especially when it's hmong dubbed .

    I llooveee the song.

    Wow, I never really noticed the Hmong Chinese clothing in here. LOL.

  • I know, I love the Hmong Chinese clothing in the movie.. so beautiful!

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