Hmong minority in China

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

I don't know why Hmong has not identified as our minority but Miao...is there a reasons ? but these people are very Chinese, have a great desire to be among us, they like Chinese songs, movies...virtually Chinese culture is part of their life. Of course we're not claiming their distance relative such as in Laos, Thai or Vietnam but the one who shown the great affinity toward China.

I still confuse between Miao and Hmong, can someone enlighten me over these two groups of people?

 

[AViet]

From my understanding, Miao is a larger group of related ethnic minorities, which include Hmong.

Hmong is quite an unusual people from anthropological view. Their children can have light blonde hair and reddish skin, but these features will fade when they grow up. It may be normal in some other Mongoloid group living in cold environment in Siberia and Mongolia, such as Nenets and Tuvan etc. but a little bit out of place in Vietnam.

 

[Viet]

I don't know why Hmong has not identified as our minority but Miao...is there a reasons ? but these people are very Chinese, have a great desire to be among us, they like Chinese songs, movies...virtually Chinese culture is part of their life. Of course we're not claiming their distance relative such as in Laos, Thai or Vietnam but the one who shown the great affinity toward China.

I still confuse between Miao and Hmong, can someone enlighten me over these two groups of people?

Hmong is said to be a subgroup of Miao. there are over 1 million Hmong in VN: red, white, black, green, flower Hmong ethnic groups. they are the largest minority ethnic group, recognised by VN central government. culturally, they are very close to Chinese and Vietnamese people.

 

[Gnoomh]

I don't know why Hmong has not identified as our minority but Miao...is there a reasons ? but these people are very Chinese, have a great desire to be among us, they like Chinese songs, movies...virtually Chinese culture is part of their life. Of course we're not claiming their distance relative such as in Laos, Thai or Vietnam but the one who shown the great affinity toward China.

I still confuse between Miao and Hmong, can someone enlighten me over these two groups of people?

Hi, first post in here, I am Hmong French.

"Hmong" is the romanized term of the word that the Hmong people use to call themselves in their dialect. "Miao" is a mandarin word use to call a minority group where the Hmong are include in. The Miao people have 3 majors sub-group related to the 3 major dialects of this people. They can identify themselves in a different term link to their dialect. For example, as a Miao, I call myself "Hmong" in my dialect and my girlfriend (who is Miao too) call her "Hmu" in her dialect. English call me "french" but i call myself "français".

Because majority of the Miao who migrate to the western world are Hmong, this word is use to identify them and not "Miao". Furthermore,the word Miao is confused with a pejorative term "Meo" used by the south east asian people to call them, so it's difficult to them to accept being labelled as Miao.

There is a lot of educated Hmong people in the western world but their history were mostly wrongly taught and only vocally by elders who come from Laos, so most of them lack of knowledge about their history related in China.
China history is really little known out of China, this is really difficult to learn about Chinese minorities history... But Hmong folks believe that when they die, their spirit return to their motherland and they all know that this is in the heart of the Middle Kingdom. Today, with the web and the opening of China, some like me want to know more about our roots and return in China to visit and learn.

Hmong people, as Miao people, are certainly one of the oldest relative of the Chinese people.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Hi, first post in here, I am Hmong French.

"Hmong" is the romanized term of the word that the Hmong people use to call themselves in their dialect. "Miao" is a mandarin word use to call a minority group where the Hmong are include in. The Miao people have 3 majors sub-group related to the 3 major dialects of this people. They can identify themselves in a different term link to their dialect. For exemple, as a Miao, I call myself "Hmong" in my dialect and my girlfriend (who is Miao too) call her "Hmu" in her dialect. English call me "french" but i call myself "français".

Because majority of the Miao who migrate to the western world are Hmong, this word is use to identify them and not "Miao". Furthermore,the word Miao is confused with a pejorative term "Meo" used by the south east asian people to call them, so it's difficult to them to accept being labelled as Miao.

There is a lot of educated hmong people in the western world but their history were mostly wrongly teached and only vocaly by elder who come from Laos, so most of them lack of knowledge about their history related in China.
China history is really badly know out of China, this is really difficult to learn about chineses minorities history... But Hmong folks believe that when they die, their spirit return to their motherland and they all know that this is in the heart of the Middle Kingdom. Today, with the web and the opening of China, some like me want to know more about our roots and return in China to visit and learn.

Hmong people, as Miao people, are certainly one of the oldest relative of the chinese people.

WOW thanks a lot man, everything is clear for me now, I watch a lot of youtube, I'm so astonished that Hmong are so close to Chinese, a lot of Chinese song and movies are translated into Hmong...that's why I raise the question and wondering if Hmong are also our ethnic brothers and sister beside Miao which was not recognized by China.

Now since I know what Hmong mean to me, I will be friend with any Hmong on earth either Thailand, Laos or Vietnam

Thai...

Laos...