Visiting Xijiang Miao Village 

Alots have changed over the last 5000 years but the hmong stay true to their identity. Preserved, protect and save the our heritage.

Awesome place and magnificent tradition. God bless the peace loving people of China.

In northeast india there is small town called MIAO in state of arunachal pradesh!! Same name of small town!!

Wow! That was a really nice video. The wooden architecture was beautiful. The Hmong are 100% Chinese people, even though there were bad times for them under the Qing dynasty. So many live in Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. Their DNA shows mostly north Han, south Han, with a little Mongol and SE Asian admixture which is to be expected after so many thousands of years settling through much of China. They are a wonderful people and are no less Chinese than Fujians, Guangxinese, Cantonese, etc. who all have their own languages and customs, too. In many cases Hmong have more Han DNA than other groups considered Han.

I would love to visit this place someday. Very interesting to see how my people have evolved in China. Thank you for sharing.

Great video!! Definitely want to visit this place one day and reconnect with my roots.

BEAUTIFUL Miao village shot....it's like a ancient fantasy location.

Very informative. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for video. It would've been great if you recorded their speech/language. I would've loved to hear them speak in their native tongue.

It is the government's effort to relocate the Mio tribe from the mountain to the valley. Valley population is very new but in the mountain, yes, hundreds of years.

Lovely, if we could live like tourists, yeah, it would be just heaven on earth fans

Good afternoon, Jared TLP. this is a actually particularly video. thank. :)

The hmong people in China are kindness and respect people

Thank you a lot, Sir Jared ! You have a good eye & a journalist infos !. Paris, Fr( 26/11/2021)

Meow's houses were 100% of woods while American's houses also 100% of woods, too but American put stucco outside.

This video make me miss my Miao/Hmong people..

The romanised script for the Miao language (and other minority ones) are a sign they didn't have their own written script, and were given one to preserve their spoken histories. This was back in the 60s when the National Minorities were registered (56 out of 180 made the cut, the other 130 were subsumed into a new ethnic group that became the world's largest overnight -the Han, who themselves speak 200 languages, have huge cultural, historic and DNA differences among them). For decades the National minorities were studied and their cultures, folklore and history recorded, and have always been exempted from the one child rule in order to protect their numbers. It's a mixed bag about cultural preservation, as a lot was done - but a lot of the more unsavoury aspects were undone (eg the practice of slavery among the Musuo, serfdom and human sacrifice among Tibetans, child brides everywhere, inc the Han etc). The fine line is where the Party decides to stop, eg the new suppression of hijab/ halal etc in Xinjiang right now.

Jared, thanks for sharing you beautiful video.

Great video about the Hmong people in China

A true and original Hmong village. Thanks for sharing.

As you know this people are everywhere in the states if you look carefully of they clothing especially during the new year time it’s kinda related to the Hmong American of the United States and it’s true perhaps some people have researched it

i love to there also..thanks for sharing your videos..

Thanks for sharing. Great history on Hmong.

Tiam no txawm tsis muaj teb chaws ua Hmoob tug los kuv zoo siab tas zog tias kuv yog HMOOB roj HMOOB ntshav tiag tiag.

These are Miao/Hmong people who were subjected to follow the Chinese culture and mixed with their blood lines.

I'm really glad I got to see this video.

I really want to know if there are really any connection between the hmong and the miao people. I am hmong and my mom told me miao was a derrogative name given to us to mock us since miao sounds like meow, the voice a cat makes. I don't really know where she got this from but I have always kept this in mind. On the other hand I have also heard that hmong people and miao people are one and the same except miao people stay in China while hmong people migrated to laos, then eventually Thailand , France and the United States after the secret war. I'm really interested in how we hmong people came to be because nobody knows 100% even if hmong scholars say that they do. Its all based on words or something else. But no solid proof. Its probably hard to find solid proof now since I know hmong people didn't document things. Our seniors only kept things by memory of word too. So it's hard to prove it. Even till this day when a person passes away we have to find out where that person lived in their life to guide them back to their home through shamanism. Since our moms, dads, granmdas and grandpas never kept anything written we would typically have to find out how they lived through their brothers, sisters or sometimes parents. I could recognise their clothes right away. It looks just like some tribal hmong clothes. It doesn't look exactly the same, but very close to what the people were wearing in this video. Only some tribes look like it though , not all tribes.

Beautiful!

Good video. I am meo people in u.s.

Chinese called them Miao but the real name is Hmong.

The Miao people are not just Hmong they are Yao and Hmong and many other ethnic tribe.

awesome place

Great history on our people. Excellent research. To make things easy and simple for many, we and other ethnic groups outside of China descended from China. We share the same common nation, similar customs, traditions, language, clothing that separates us from other ethnic groups as well as the main Chinese groups. This is even more apparent now when the advances in technology. Listening to a Miao speak you can hear traces of Hmong languages. This is very common to where the family/clan chooses to live. Hence Those that live in Vietnam carries their tone. Even now, you can hear the integration of American Hmong vs French Hmong. What is different is the migration of the groups southward to other nations. And with the migration comes the derogatory use of the word Meo, similar in tone to Miao, used mainly by the Vietnamese and its brother Laos. As someone stated below, this labels our group as Savages, uncivilized (whatever the fck that implies for these underdeveloped nations). It is almost the complete opposite to why we are called Hmong in the first place..."Free" men. Even during the early migration into US we were called and taunted by this name by both the Laotion and Vietnamese communities. Those loyal to the communist regime and those that remember our part in the War hated us with extreme prejudice. So many today, especially kids, fortunately don't know this and didn't have to suffer through them. This identity of "Free" men is crucial as it is heart of the old ways where our people were nomadic and despised rule and control. This is one of the main factors that the main Chinese clans push these ethnics group southward. This lifestyle can still be seen around the world with many other cultures, not just Hmong. So many in US only associate their views and history to that of Laos and Thailand. Our people the Miao and eventually the Hmong have settled into various Southeast countries, adopting and mixing our way of life with that of the nation we are living in. It is incredibly short-sighted, irresponsible and inaccurate to assume we are because of Laos and Thailand. This is far from the truth and history of our people. Dare I challenge that the Miao/Hmong in China is more accessible today than some others in different parts of the world. Take for example French Guiana. Getting there is a challenge and not from the cost alone but the transportation to get there. But as with any Hmong group that settles in a different part of the world they adapt and make a life out of it. The group in French Guiana is particularly unique because of the harsh jungles, natives and economic way of life. But as stated previously, they have adapted and is now one of the largest agricultural group for many of the cities there, even providing education to the locals and natives. Their education level is exceeding that of the locals and natives. This is what it means to be Hmong.

"Miao" is bad word for Hmong. Please used Hmong to be more appropriate.

Good👍

I love CHINA

congratulations

That's a good village to visit, but they can not speak Hmong America language 👍👍

Miao or Hmong all over the hole world.

I always asking what is going on in the border of China and Vietnam , I seen the videos of hmoob or hmoong that boys grabbing girls by forces since in the videos , they comment in their dialects I don’t understand at if anyone here can explain

The Hmong in china they eat very little not like Hmong American . one person hmoob American eat might enough for two or three hmoob China. That's why hmoob China look very pretty.

Miao or Hmong Do not disturb me 💪

We don't like to be called Miao. We are Hmong

They are not mamo or what ever you call them,they call hmong,

Dude....these are not miae....they are hmong...so stop calling them miae...call them hmong. We are hmong

They are miao you are hmong ok.

It's not miao.....it's hmong people....

Hmong chinese...

Hmong not Miao

I like your videos and watced, but can you please stop using the word " miao" you start to piss me off now.