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Yeeb and yaj symbol used by a Hmong American folk religious institution.. Kev Dab Kev Qhuas (Hmong folk spirituality or Miao folk spirituality) is the common ethnic religion of the Miao people, best translated as the "practice of spirituality". [1]
File:Hmongism, yeeb and yaj.svg. Add languages. ... The yeeb-yaj symbol of Hmongism or Ua Dab, the Hmong traditional religion. Date: 20 February 2014: Source: Own work:
Vu Pa Chay (Hmong: Vwj Paj Cai, Hmong Vietnamese: Vux Pax Chai, a Hmong leader who revolted against the French imperialist in northern Vietnam and Laos Vuong Chinh Duc (1865 - 1947) ( RPA : Vaj Tsoov Loom ) was a H'Mong king ( also known as King Meo ) with his kingdom in Dong Van district, Ha Giang province, Vietnam
A Hmong theologian, Rev. Dr. Paul Joseph T. Khamdy Yang has proposed the use of the term "HMong" in reference to the Hmong and the Mong communities by capitalizing the H and the M. The ethnologist Jacques Lemoine has also begun to use the term (H)mong in reference to the entirety of the Hmong and Mong communities.
For followers of traditional Hmong spirituality, the shaman, a healing practitioner who acts as an intermediary between the spirit and material world, is the main communicator with the otherworld, able to see why and how someone got sick. The Hmong view healing and sickness as supernatural processes linked to cosmic and local supernatural forces.
Many Hmong and non-Hmong people who are learning the Hmong language tend to use the word xim (a borrowing from Thai/Lao) as the word for 'color', while the native Hmong word for 'color' is kob. For example, xim appears in the sentence Liab yog xim ntawm kev phom sij with the meaning "Red is the color of danger / The red color is of danger".
Hmong New Year is the biggest holiday of the year in Hmong culture, Vue said. Traditionally, the Hmong are agriculturalists and the new year celebrates the end of the harvest.
Hmong women who married Han Chinese men founded a new Xem clan among Northern Thailand's Hmong. Fifty years later in Chiangmai two of their Hmong boy descendants were Catholics. [ 44 ] A Hmong woman and Han Chinese man married and founded northern Thailand's Lau2, or Lauj, clan, [ 44 ] , with another Han Chinese man of the family name Deng ...