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This envoy gives them the boy's family background and asks for the girl's in exchange. For example, the envoy may tell the girl's family that the groom is from a Stripe Hmong family from Luang Prabang, Laos; the bride's parents may then reply that they are Moob Leej/Mong Leng from Nong Het, Xieng Khouang, Laos.
Hmong music is an important part of the culture of the Hmong people, an ethnic group from southeast Asia. Because the Hmong language is tonal, there is a close connection between Hmong music and the spoken language. Music is an important part of Hmong life, played for entertainment, for welcoming guests, and at weddings and funerals.
Bua Xou Mua (1915–2013), also known as Boua Xou Mua, was a Hmong spiritual leader, village chief, and musician. He was known for his recitation of the Hmong oral epic and playing of the gaeng (bamboo mouth organ).
For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate the tall altar in her living room where she keeps her father’s ring-shaped shaman bells. “Like ...
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.
Other notable spiritual figures in Hmong legends are: The first shaman was Siv Yis ('She Yee'): [13] Hmong shamans refer to themselves as "Siv Yis" when they are in spiritual ecstasy. Chiyou (or Txiv Yawg {'Tsi Yer'}) is worshipped as an ancestral god of the Hmong nation. [14] The Hmong house is a reflection of the cosmos.
Kao Kalia Yang, Hmong American writer; author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir; her work has appeared in the Paj Ntaub Voice Hmong Literary Journal and numerous other publications; Lori M. Lee, author of the book, Pahua and The Soul Stealer; Mai Neng Moua, writer; Shen Congwen, 沈从文, Miao Chinese writer from the May Fourth Movement
Hmong may refer to: Hmong people, an ethnic group living mainly in Southwest China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand; Hmong cuisine; Hmong customs and culture. Hmong music; Hmong textile art; Hmong language, a continuum of closely related tongues/dialects Hmong–Mien languages; Pahawh Hmong, an indigenous semi-syllabic script