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Offline YAX

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Qeej
« on: January 12, 2011, 06:43:13 PM »
I found this article to be very informative.  Can someone verify it's accuracy?

http://www.hmongstudies.com/HSJ-v2n1_Morrison.pdf




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Re: Qeej
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2011, 12:23:30 PM »
i read this article many years ago and i was laughingto myself after reading it....some of the information are correct...but some are off....however, there i sno way of proving it right/wrong becasue they are just stories.

i am talking about the "origin" of the qeej.  the author implies that qeej is from xeemxais...gue ss what, xeemxais is  a laotion leader, not a mong leader...in response to this xeemxais as the creator of qeej, i have made a video to asnwer where the qeej came from, from a mong's perspective... not a laotion perspective.




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Re: Qeej
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2011, 01:11:27 PM »
Everyone has their own story of the origin of qeej. My master told it differently.  Since then I heard different stories from different masters. Really who cares...



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Re: Qeej
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2011, 02:26:14 PM »
yes, everyone has their own creation story...but please, ignore those that has to do with "god" or "saub" or those that has no "mongness" to them.  mong qeej, i believe, is truly invented by mong...and by non-god entities...

the reason why i believe the story in youtube is because, mong music has 8 tones..but 4 of them can be reduced to 2...thus this fit all the rest of the instrument, having 6 pitches.  the reason why i do not believe in the xeemxais story is because laotion qeej has more than 6 pipes (pitches)...thus pointing to a newer version of the qeej.

yaweh


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Re: Qeej
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2011, 01:08:29 AM »
my gramps n cousins r qeej players...they said once long ago in china hmong qeej masters knew how to blow fire otta the qeej...but because they were too greedy, it was lost forever...



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Re: Qeej
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2011, 01:39:39 PM »
Nej pheej tham txog Qeej. Nej puas paub Qeej txoj sia nyob qhov twg?



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Re: Qeej
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2011, 02:49:58 PM »
qeej txoj sia thiab koj txoj sia ces yog tib txoj sia mas..



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Re: Qeej
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2011, 04:55:58 PM »
Quote from: yaweh on December 21, 2011, 02:49:58 PM
qeej txoj sia thiab koj txoj sia ces yog tib txoj sia mas..

LOL, I'll save that question for the master to answer.



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Re: Qeej
« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2011, 06:14:11 PM »
insignia..

the picture you show...the qeej still has 6 pipes...so i'm not sure what you want me to explain.

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