Akha People (Laos)

[CrazyNative4]

cool tribal people!

[zoosabpumkoj]

What part that they live in Laos?

[WizzleThump]

@zoosabpumkoj The high mountains.

[PreludeSi91]

this is the way of life for some people around the world..I dont mind living like this..cause its CRIME FREE :)

[yyyzhang]

I read more about the prehistorical discovery about the culture in shangdong province. they don't seems like the hmong/mien. but seems like the baiyue once occupied the southeast coast of china(they were related to proto-malay) and the dna shows the second biggest y-snp of chinese han is o1 the same as malay. so i think dongyi is more like yue but not like hmong/mien

[niamtxiv]

hmm, you act like you know the hmong/mien. no you don't.

[yyyzhang]

and if u have some climate and geography knowledge u should know the lower of yellow river were Quagmire about 4000-5000 years ago.

[apochi4179]

I visited morning market of Muang-sing one month ago. What a man from the south of me, I understand only Liu and Tai-dam there. I asked: where the Lao here? No answer!

[ilovenoy]

what language are they speaking?never heard of it.sounds kinda like hmong or commue.i know that isn't the laos language though.

[kojpuasncokuv]

Akha language

[ilovenoy]

I meant, where are they from because its nothing like laos. where are akha people originally from.

[chongtak]

Akha people is originally from Tibet, they are close to the Hani people in Vietnam and Yi people in China.

[ilovenoy]

Interesting, I've always thought they resembled Tibetan people. Thanks for the info. Then would you know where hmong people came from?

[chongtak]

Most of Hmong people won't agree, but scientists think they are originally from China. From ancient chinese scriptures, Yu the great (21st century BCE - the runner of chinese Xia dynasty) was said to have defeated their last great king Shi Yi, from that crucial defeat the hmong people lost their lands in central China and went to the south.

[yyyzhang]

not yu, but huangdi. and this is myth.

[chongtak]

wrong

[yyyzhang]

who told u that? what does tibetan people mean? the chinese majority also declare their ancestors came from tibetan-the kunlun mountain...

[chongtak]

Tibetan people means the people living in Tibet. Han people are not from Kunlun mountain, they (we come from the central rivers, especially the yellow river).

[yyyzhang]

no look at the myth, the first words are 巍巍我祖，来自昆仑, that means my great ancestor, coming from kunlun mountains.

[yyyzhang]

please learn more about ur ancestor. they are origin in the upper of yellow river in the north east valley of tibet, and imigrate down the yellow river. in myth they said they comed from high mountains which was called kunlun. and in about han dynasty, today's kunlun mountain was named.

[chongtak]

Han are not from the mountains, they are from the valley of the yellow river. Sorry to break your dream of purity but Han people is actually a mix of the tribes which lived along the yellow river in the north east of China. The north east of China is quite far from Kun lun.

[yyyzhang]

I should say again, look at ur history carefully. the han are made up several tribes. all the tribes called themselves as xia in the ancient time. they once lived in the upper of yellow river. after a war with chiyou they immigrate down the river and mixed with dongyi.

study ur ancestors history please.and the northeast of china was not the origin of chinese people.

and to see such a book qiang between han and zang written by a taiwanese 王明珂.

[yyyzhang]

no some akha experts in china declare they are the decendents of sanxindui...

[chongtak]

Yao people declare they are sonb of a chinese emperor and his dog, do you give credit to them? I trust scientists not chinese legends. Akha and Hani people are directly related to the Yi people which comes from Tibet.

[yyyzhang]

their experts declare they are the decendents of sanxindui. u can find some videos on the youtube.

Some people suggest the dog means a tribe who worship dogs. of course myth is myth it contains a lot of imagination but from it we can find some pictures of people living in the ancient time.

[chongtak]

Myths and scince don't fit, so I'm sorry but I believe science because it's all about evidences. And don't believe what you can find on youtube, it's full of fake videos and propaganda.

[yyyzhang]

some dna research also be done and the immigration of the chinese are also suggested by the scientist. find some y-snp research paper about the chinese and yellow. and sanxindui is found by yi/akha's ancestor was said by some yi/akha experts. some yi experts also can tell the carve letter on the discovery.

if u should know the truth, why cann't u study more? if u do not study more, how do u know they are telling liers?

[chongtak]

What are your sources? I know many Akha in Thailand and I seriously doubt there is any Akha expert about ethnology or history neither DNA. Yi/Hani/Akha/Tibetan groups are decendent from the Qiang people which is from probably from Kun lun mountains, their languages are related. Han dialects are not related to those languages.

[yyyzhang]

see the definition of sino-tibetan family,ok? and don't u know both the zhou/qin dynasty were related to qiang?

even the xia dynasty were said to be related to qiang and some yi experts declare they were the decendents of xia, some qiang people declared da yu were the decendents of xia.

[yyyzhang]

in fact they are quit fit according to the y-snp research/language research done on the people in china.

[ZINFANDEL79]

THIS HMONG NOT LAO

[MizNouP]

looks like they've never seen a camera before. Interesting video, thanks for sharing.

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