Hmong Tribal Culture

by Xiongmee Xiong through instruction by Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org. Very pleasant intro, visuals and video. The origins of the Hmong are obscure. Christian missionaries proposed they were the lost tribe of Isreal. Mountainsides of China for at least two thousand years near the yellow river, as early as 3000 BCE (seems a bit early). They migrate to Thailand and Laos to escape the Chinese. In china too, they are persecuted. Nice crips visuals. The pauses are effective. "Hmong" means "Free" known as "Miao" in China but is offensive. The provinces are named, but now, like the Jews, the Irish, they are global wanderers due to persecution. The types of Hmong are explained nicely. Exogamy and surnames are presented. One must marry outside their surnamed family. Shamanism emerges. Everything has a spirit, continuous circle birth and rebirth. The spiritual coexists with the physical -- ancestral, nature, evil spirits abound. Fantastic video of the shaman. He heals sickness...sometimes it is loneliness and depression. The black cloth enables communication with the spirits. Pleasing ancestral spirits, they will bring good spirits to the families. The afterlife makes funerals sacred. The qeej is a guidance for the soul to go to the right direction so they can reincarnate properly. The Secret War brought them to America. Fantastic video again. We hear of Veng Pao the general. Nice to see him in action. Heard much of him in Madison. They tried to name a school after him. I attended that school board meeting. Some bad guys painted him as a drug smuggler/murderer and it got shot down. I see him as a great hero myself. Terrible sad photos. Kids behind barbed wire....more camps exposed. One family per room. Eight or more families per house. From 1975, the US finally pays its debt and helps the Hmong. California, and Wisconsin are lucky enough to receive these unique peoples.

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[ZajDabNeeg4SHO]

Wiongmee Xiong,

OMG I LOVE YOU Xiongmee Xiong! Uploading this video!, From now on, whoever asks me what I am, I'll tell them to youtube this video!!! You did a very good job on a simple way to express the history of the Hmong!!!! This was really good!!!! Thank You!

fellow Hmong brother,

Keej Yaj

[opensourcebuddhism]

@ZajDabNeeg4SHO I wish I could tell her Keej. She did a great job some years ago and I keep looking for more info on your Hmong people...got to keep learning...glad her video helped you understand some things...james

[TheMoua07]

yeah....dude wheres our hmong pples home...where did we come from.....

[opensourcebuddhism]

@TheMoua07 I am still deciphering where your Hmong people came from. I have heard "lost tribe of Israel" (some Hmong are born white and blue-eyed...still, not very Semitic), I have heard Mongolia, or remnants of "white" people in China who used to rule it and then were submerged by the Han and chased into Southeast Asia...I just definitively do not know. I will trust DNA evidence though...I just haven't seen any.

[ZajDabNeeg4SHO]

soory for the mispelling in the name.

[hasjta300]

@Siam108 then where is hmong origins home?

[Siam108]

china is not hmong origins home.............

[CrazyNative4]

well done

[lykoueng]

thats a good documentary

[YawmZajlaug]

SAUJ SEB LEEJ TWG KHOB KHOB QHOV ROOJ. THE DAUGHTER LOOK AND SAID, MOM, THERE IS A HMONG OUTSIDE THE DOOR. DOES SHE MEAN, MOM, THERE IS A FREE PERSON OUTSIDE THE DOOR? NO, SHE MEAN THERE IS A PERSON OUTSIDE THE DOOR. SO, BE CAREFUL ABOUT USING THAT WORD "FREE" TO DESCRIBE WE HMONG. HMONG DO WISH FOR FREE, AND WISDOM AND FREE ARE WHAT HMONG ARE AFTER. BUT NOT NECESSARY MEAN THEY ARE FREE PEOPLE.