Hmong History in China
Hmong History in China For almost six generations ago, about 300,000 Hmong in Laos have come to call home. I know the majority of their fathers Hmong immigrants from China, but it was to deepen their knowledge of the history. Few people know of the legendary figures such as Chiyou, Ba Tien Tao and Wu Yue. Written evidence of migration is limited, and sometimes forced assimilation seems to lose the history and the Hmong are still relatively unknown.
But to understand science and to return to the roots of the Hmong in China, which opened recently at the University of Xiangtan in Hunan province, where a handful of U.S. Hmong students in the summer program two months old Hmong history and culture. Months intensive program (six hours, six days a week), lectures and field work months Hmong village in southwestern China. The program started in the summer, a professor of philosophy, Xiangtan, Ping-la. Born According to Professor of you, the idea was in the United States. As a participant in the International Symposium, 1995 Hmong, professor explained that the Hmong was in the United States, especially its history in China. After his return to China, he and a group of teachers and researchers in China, the Hmong program was founded in Xiangtan, to share information about the Hmong history.
Five students - Txianeng Vang, Yang Cy Thao Cziasarh neng (all St. Paul, Minn.), Charles L. Fang San Diego, California, and I - Participation in the program last year. Xiangtan president were his disciples.
Professor Xin Fu Wu said that the Conference of ancient Hmong history and pointed out that, if history is full of Hmong is very difficult or impossible to collect all the scattered parts into a coherent piece. He acknowledged that the challenge to find for the history of the Hmong, the responsibilities and priorities of the Hmong students in the coming years.
Professor Tong Yang Jiang, 33, Hmong and Chinese historian, author or coauthor of more than 20 titles took a year five hundred thousand Hmong origin of the Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis), which was found near Beijing in 1920. But Professor Yang agreed that the Hmong history over 5000 years remains unclear and speculative. The term "Miao" appeared in China and at the beginning of the historical classics such as "EC Zhanguo (Warring intrigue") and "shiji (Records of historians). After the Han dynasty in 220 AD Miao" has disappeared from history until the Song Dynasty (947-1279 AD). the causes of the mysterious disappearance is still uncertain.
Scientists believe that the Hmong, who spent the most terrible period in history when the term Miao, some changes are made Miao-Manand Man-Miao-Wuling Wuxi Man Manor simply man and finally back to Miao. If the old Miao Miao is now highly controversial as researchers.
Since the word "Miao" or "Miao" instead? Although the term Miaoappeared in Chinese historical documents, the term Hmong has never done. This is called, Miao or Hmong? . The answer to this question varies depending on location. For example, Hmong western Hunan called ;Guo-Xiong. Those are the eastern part of Guizhou province says it is" AMAOTE "or" MB ". And, Sichuan and Yunnan in the south Meng "or" Hmong. In fact, the term ; is probably the name for the Chinese, at least in writing to Hmong.
Hmong History in China For almost six generations ago, about 300,000 Hmong in Laos have come to call home. I know the majority of their fathers Hmong immigrants from China, but it was to deepen their knowledge of the history. Few people know of the legendary figures such as Chiyou, Ba Tien Tao and Wu Yue. Written evidence of migration is limited, and sometimes forced assimilation seems to lose the history and the Hmong are still relatively unknown.
But to understand science and to return to the roots of the Hmong in China, which opened recently at the University of Xiangtan in Hunan province, where a handful of U.S. Hmong students in the summer program two months old Hmong history and culture. Months intensive program (six hours, six days a week), lectures and field work months Hmong village in southwestern China. The program started in the summer, a professor of philosophy, Xiangtan, Ping-la. Born According to Professor of you, the idea was in the United States. As a participant in the International Symposium, 1995 Hmong, professor explained that the Hmong was in the United States, especially its history in China. After his return to China, he and a group of teachers and researchers in China, the Hmong program was founded in Xiangtan, to share information about the Hmong history.
Five students - Txianeng Vang, Yang Cy Thao Cziasarh neng (all St. Paul, Minn.), Charles L. Fang San Diego, California, and I - Participation in the program last year. Xiangtan president were his disciples.
Professor Xin Fu Wu said that the Conference of ancient Hmong history and pointed out that, if history is full of Hmong is very difficult or impossible to collect all the scattered parts into a coherent piece. He acknowledged that the challenge to find for the history of the Hmong, the responsibilities and priorities of the Hmong students in the coming years.
Professor Tong Yang Jiang, 33, Hmong and Chinese historian, author or coauthor of more than 20 titles took a year five hundred thousand Hmong origin of the Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis), which was found near Beijing in 1920. But Professor Yang agreed that the Hmong history over 5000 years remains unclear and speculative. The term "Miao" appeared in China and at the beginning of the historical classics such as "EC Zhanguo (Warring intrigue") and "shiji (Records of historians). After the Han dynasty in 220 AD Miao" has disappeared from history until the Song Dynasty (947-1279 AD). the causes of the mysterious disappearance is still uncertain.
Scientists believe that the Hmong, who spent the most terrible period in history when the term Miao, some changes are made Miao-Manand Man-Miao-Wuling Wuxi Man Manor simply man and finally back to Miao. If the old Miao Miao is now highly controversial as researchers.
Since the word "Miao" or "Miao" instead? Although the term Miaoappeared in Chinese historical documents, the term Hmong has never done. This is called, Miao or Hmong? . The answer to this question varies depending on location. For example, Hmong western Hunan called ;Guo-Xiong. Those are the eastern part of Guizhou province says it is" AMAOTE "or" MB ". And, Sichuan and Yunnan in the south Meng "or" Hmong. In fact, the term ; is probably the name for the Chinese, at least in writing to Hmong.
