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The concept represents the world of the living and the world of the spirits: yeeb ceeb is the spiritual world, while yaj ceeb is the world of material nature. [ 3 ] [ 11 ] The Hmong also practice looj mem , like the Chinese feng shui [ 5 ] which is used to determine place of best birthing boys or girls.
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:
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".
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.
Hmong in America: Journey from a Secret War. Chippewa Valley Museum Press. ISBN 9780963619136. Quincy, Keith. Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat: The Hmong & America's Secret War in Laos. Scripter, Sami; Yang, Sheng. Cooking from the Heart: The Hmong Kitchen in America. "The violence of Hmong gangs and the crime of rape". The FBI Law Enforcement ...
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.
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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 ...