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On the date of celebration, [45] the Hmong customs and traditions [46] usually come first [47] [48] especially in rural areas. This comes from Hmong customs and culture since their ancestors. To begin with, a ritual celebration must take place before sunset to end the current year. [46]
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.
A traditional Hmong wedding consisted of three separate ceremonies of animal sacrifices and feasts. In the Hmong society, a woman keeps close relationships with her family and never takes her husband's last name. However, after marriage, she joins her husband's family to work and live with them. [2] If widowed, a Hmong woman has few choices.
Hmong people have a culture built on animistic beliefs and a strong faith that after death the soul reincarnates as one of many forms such as humans, plants, rocks and ghosts (Goetz par. 1, 12). Death is often considered the most important time for practicing rituals in the Hmong community because without practicing the necessary rituals the ...
The Fresno Center CEO Pao Yang, center, with councilperson Mike Karbassi, left, and Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, right, laugh together as they have photos taken at the 2023 Hmong American Day ...
The religion is also called Hmongism by a Hmong American church established in 2012 to organize it among Hmong people in the United States. [ 2 ] This practice has a blend of animistic theology, [ 3 ] the respect between people and natural land spirits, and the understanding of the spirituality that are understood by Miao peoples.
There are 32,000 Hmong community members in the capital — the second-largest population outside of Fresno. And for the 18th year in a row, many of them gathered this weekend to celebrate their ...
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 ...