My siblings and my dad sat down one day and we talked about our intermediate family members. My dad said that we are chinese married to the Hmong and followed the Hmong people. I am like the 7th generation. Now my question is, why do we have two last names? My mom said Hmong chinese knows the two last names. Can somebody explain this? Serious comments only thanks.
How old are your parents? (If you know and do not mind me asking, or telling us?)
THIS (tale), whether true or not, is pretty common among all Hmong actually. (Practically every Hmong clan has one or more of these types of "
tales". Even in my clan, there is/are prospects of Chinese-origin. Nothing new about it.
*** I am of the "belief" it is only wishful thinking -- like how many US-Hmong born kids nowadays think, or claim they are White/Caucasians.) But if you, or any Hmong for that matter, truly believes they are inherently Chinese then there is a simple "scientific test" that can prove or disprove it. Yeah, go get a "DNA test", and if you have the HAN/Manchu(Chinese) gnome-marker then YES you are Chinese -- that is biologically connected -- not necessarily Chinese. However, do not be disappointed if you are NOT, and that your parents have only told you a "
tale" of which they themselves have no substantial PROOF to validate, and is mostly "hearsay=tall tales".
What is known, FACT (scholarships), even nowadays (and this is why SOME Hmong parents/families have Viet, Thai, Lao, and other non-Hmong sons and/or daughters) is that over the 100s-1000s of years of diaspora (mass migration and resettlement) some Hmong have adopted (purchased) non-Hmong kids, being unable to have kids of their own. And YES, some Hmong men and women have even taken non-Hmong spouses, so Chinese spouses is definitely not out of the question. (Ostracized Chinese have been known to lively intimately among the Hmong throughout Chinese history.) Just look around you in America today, there are Hmong marrying White, Black, Green, Purple, Orange, and Polka-dotted-Pinks etc.. Nothing new -- historically or presently. But to say/claim, or believe you are emphatically this and that -- be it Chinese, Viet, Lao, Thai, White/Caucasian or whatever else, just because your great grand parents, even mother or father, married outside of your race is stretching it by MILES. At best, you are a MIXED race person without any genuine, or pure biological gnomes.
Per scholarships (researchers -- Hmong and non-Hmong),
practically ALL Hmong last names are Chinese in origin. I am not going to explain/elaborate on this. Do the research yourselves if you truly are interested, and want to know fact from fiction.
Song -- We all know is HA'Mung idiocy in Anglicizing the known Hmong surname Xiong, aka "Xyooj".
Kong -- The "Koo" clan is one of the least popular Hmong surname, in terms of population, which is why they are barely known like Yang, Vue, Vang, Lee, Lor etc..
???Soung??? -- I am clueless of and about it. To my knowledge, there is no such Chinese surname, or have never seen one, especially spelled that way. It is definitely not Hmong -- the better known and popular surnames historically and presently.