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Qeej (Pahawh: 𖬀𖬰𖬦𖬵), free reed gourd mouth organ of the Hmong people. The most well-known instrument is the qeej, a type of reed pipe, in which each tone corresponds to a Hmong spoken word. [7] It is a free-reed gourd mouth organ, used to play a text-based melody in the middle range. It consists of a wooden wind chest, with a long ...
Hmong musicians from Guizhou perform on lusheng in a variety of sizes. The lusheng (simplified Chinese: 芦笙; traditional Chinese: 蘆笙; pinyin: lú shēng, pronounced [lǔʂə́ŋ]; Vietnamese: Khèn Mông; also spelled lu sheng; spelled ghengx in standard Hmong and qeej in Laotian RPA Hmong) is a Hmong musical instrument.
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Qeej, the gourd mouth organ of Hmong music. As of 1997 Merced has fourteen Hmong clans; they are the Cheng, Fang, Hang, Her, Kong, Kue, Lee, Lor, Moua, Thao, Vang, Vue, Xiong, and Yang. As a result, as of 1997 young people easily found exogamous marriage partners. Hmong often drive from city to city in the Central Valley.
The gourd windchest of the mouth organ is hard to preserve, but bronze windchests have been discovered in central Yunnan, China, dating from around the fifth century BCE. [9] The gourd mouth organ is also recorded in several Chinese historical sources from the Tang dynasty onward, for example, in the Book of Odes , Tangyuezhi and Manshu. [10]
EAU CLAIRE— For the first time since the pandemic, the Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association (ECAHMAA) will present a Hmong New Year celebration this weekend. The two day festival ...
The mouth organ can be found all around the world and is known by many different names and seen in many different traditions. The most notable variations include the harmonica , and Asian free reed wind instruments consisting of a number of bamboo pipes of varying lengths fixed into a wind chest; these include the sheng , khaen , lusheng , yu ...
It is called Hmong Noj Peb Caug Xyoo Tshiab (Hmong New Year) in the Hmong language and its origin dates back to the Song dynasty (960 - 1279), [31] around 1,000 years ago. The celebration now takes place between September and December depending on where the Hmong live.