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The Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) [1] are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia.They are spoken in mountainous areas of southern China, including Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hubei provinces; the speakers of these languages are predominantly "hill people", in contrast to the ...
Miao (苗) is the Chinese name and the one used by Miao in China.However, Hmong is more familiar in the West, due to Hmong emigration. Hmong is the biggest subgroup within the Hmongic peoples.
The folktale explains that cows and rats ate the book, so, in the words of Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, "no text was equal to the task of representing a culture as rich as that of the Hmong." Therefore, the folktale states that the Hmong language was exclusively oral from that point onwards.
The author of Guoyu, written in the 4th to 5th century, considered Chi You's Jiu Li tribe to be related to the ancient ancestors of the Hmong, the San-Miao people. [39] Chi You is the Hmong ancestral God of War. Today, a statue of Chi You has been erected in the town named Zhuolu. [40]
Miao is a word that the Chinese use to designate some ethnic minority groups living in southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia. Miao is thus officially recognized by the Chinese government as one of the largest ethnic minority groups that has more than 56 official ethnicities and dialects. The Miao live primarily in the mountains of southern ...
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] The religion is also called Hmongism by a Hmong American church established in 2012 to organize it among Hmong people in the United States .
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Miao may refer to: Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China; Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages; Miao (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Pollard script; Miào (庙), a Chinese temple