Hmong students learn of culture's Chinese roots Options

[qaib]

We are not from Laos or Southeast Asia.

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/12/23/3277226/h...ento-learn.html

Hmong musician Li Yang, from Guizhou province in China, demonstrates last week how to use a leaf to create music, a centuries-old Chinese tradition, during an appearance at the Hmong charter school in Sacramento, which opened in August. Yang also played bamboo flutes to help teach the students about the Hmong culture's ties to ancient China.

走了一山又一山 Climbed One Mountain After Another 苗山人组合 阿幼朵 Ayouduo Mus ib lub roob dhau ib lub roob
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_go5Ct_bUdI

heheh, he stands 6ft tall like me.











I took a picture of him.


This post has been edited by qaib: Dec 28 2010, 05:21 PM

[beaudelaire]

i'll always be amazed by how hmong american are trying to save and rediscover our culture...that sometime i feel ashame by seeing my french hmong fellow knowing anything about our chinese roots

[qaib]

Thanks.

I want to thank my fellow Hmong that I've met and talked to. I've met many Hmong who had been to China and are rediscovering history and culture as well as establishing connection with our brethren from various parts of China. I want to thank in particular the Hmong historians, scholars and those that journeyed way before us back to China. Slowly, we were able to get as much information as possible about who we are --- from our own people in China.

Whether we are Hmong Americans, Hmong Chinese, Hmong Laos, Hmong Australians, Hmong French...... politics shouldn't be involved. Peb sawv daw yog ib haiv neeg thiab ib pab kwv tij Hmoob. I am very proud that our people often do not use politic, but rather culture to establish a common ground.

I think this has been a goal in many of us, "to unite and be one again, as well as to rediscover our history."

This post has been edited by qaib: Dec 29 2010, 03:42 PM