Hmong History FAQ

[eyefish]

You idiots who think ancient Hmong people had blonde hair blue eyes, where the hell did your mom and dad come from? North Dakota?

The reason why you see some Hmong people with blonde hair and blue eyes is because the French had Laos colonized. This is why you won't find blonde hair blue eyed Hmong people in Southern China. So next time you see a Hmong with blonde hair and blue eyes, just remember that his/her great grandma was fucked by a French guy.

Well, my husband didn't say it like that but he said the same thing. He said it's from someone down in their family line that hooked up with the white man. ?

[Gutts]

You idiots who think ancient Hmong people had blonde hair blue eyes, where the hell did your mom and dad come from? North Dakota?

The reason why you see some Hmong people with blonde hair and blue eyes is because the French had Laos colonized. This is why you won't find blonde hair blue eyed Hmong people in Southern China. So next time you see a Hmong with blonde hair and blue eyes, just remember that his/her great grandma was fucked by a French guy.

It's a fact.  Everybody knows that Hmong people are an ancient Saiyan race.  You should check out my spirit bomb sometimes.  It's devastating.  Lol.

[beester]

It's a fact.  Everybody knows that Hmong people are an ancient Saiyan race.  You should check out my spirit bomb sometimes.  It's devastating.  Lol.

I like that reasoning best! I want to be a super saiyan!

[Amara]

The Spirit Catches You mentions a Hmong Wall, a smaller version of the Great Wall.

Whoever said the wall of China was built partially to keep the Hmong out is so so wrong. First of all, the Hmong from China are geographically located in Southern China. The great wall is in Northern China. I highly doubt that the Hmong traveled North to fight the Chinese.

"Their ancestors originated in southwestern China, in the provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Hunan. For several thousand years, the central Chinese government dominated by Han Chinese basically left the Hmong (called Miao by the Chinese) alone, as long as they paid their tributes to the Chinese. However, the last dynasty in China, the Qing (1644-1911), founded by Manchus, followed a different policy. Qing armies and officials oppressed the Hmong, who rose in rebellion. In the early nineteenth century, this political persecution, along with increasing population pressure, led some of the Hmong to migrate southward into mainland Southeast Asia, where they settled in the mountainous regions of northern Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam." - Sucheng Chan, Hmong Means Free

http://www.hmongnet.org/publications/hmf-intro.html

As someone else stated above, those Hmong people with blue eyes and brown hair are purely albino. 

The Southern Great Wall was built by the rulers of the Ming Dynasty as a military blockade against the Miao people of the south. In 2001, the wall underwent major restoration to restore it back to its former state.

Here is a mini-documentary about it:

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxrrR8r4JOE

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxqFdzV_yQk

Part 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHpLHV6Bc6c

[I_love_Assistant_OK]

I've just watched Chinese Paladin 3 and on Episode 18, there was a scene where the village women come and tell the priest that their husband is being seduced by a Miao woman. I just find this to be amazing because Miao is Hmong so that mean that the descendant of Nawu is of Hmong origin. Also meaning that the mother of Lang'er in Chinese Paladin 1 is Hmong. The lady that waited 200 years for her lover is of Hmong origin. ---------------i just find this to be pretty cool especially since Hmong/Miao was mentioned in a drama that I love.

[kabvang]

I've just watched Chinese Paladin 3 and on Episode 18, there was a scene where the village women come and tell the priest that their husband is being seduced by a Miao woman. I just find this to be amazing because Miao is Hmong so that mean that the descendant of Nawu is of Hmong origin. Also meaning that the mother of Lang'er in Chinese Paladin 1 is Hmong. The lady that waited 200 years for her lover is of Hmong origin. ---------------i just find this to be pretty cool especially since Hmong/Miao was mentioned in a drama that I love.

oh my gosh!
i saw that drama too! its so good. and i agree with 100% of what you said. I also thought that it was really interesting that she actually dressed a bit like hmong in parts of the drama too.

[HmongLessons]

http://hmonglessons.com/

[shina]

It would be nice if we have someone who is interested in searching for our history.  Hmong has a unique history, but the only thing Hmong people seem to know is Gen. Vang Pao, but there were so Hmong prior to Vang Pao that have done great things for the Hmong people.  Do you know who was the first formally educated Hmong person in Laos?  I forgot his name but he was a Yang.  My grandma used to have a picture of him with Nao Chao Lyfoung.  There were the first Hmong in Laos that went to school.  There were so many great story my grandma used to tell me about the people during the early time.  I search for information on Hmong, and it looks like there are too much information on the Vietnam War and the Hmong but nothing else important.  It almost feels that Hmong people did not exist before the Vietnam War.  Sad isn't it???  I think we should leave politics behind and search for facts about the Hmong people prior to Vietnam War.  I'm talking about FACTS not GOSSIPS.    I heard plenty of gossips, but not facts.  When people gossip, they don't have the facts.  They only repeat what they heard and then add a few of their own story into it to create a completely new story.  This is what Hmong are very good at.   My grandma told me that her ancestors came from Mongolia where it was dark 6 months and light 6 months.  It was a hard life so they migrated to China looking for a better place.  The Chinese didn't like Hmong because we didn't want to pay taxes.  So after each harvest, they packed up and left to find a new place.  They kept moving and the Chinese kept on chasing them because Hmong didn't want to share their crops.  That was how her ancestors came to be in Laos.  The family splat up over the years while in China so we can't trace our root anymore.  Interesting story but we can't trace our root.  Who are the Hmong?  Where did we come from?

[Moospej]

Kuv yuav me ntsis li qhov kuv paub..txawm qhov twg tsis meej pem los nej mam li muab kho rau.

Neeg tshwm sim zaum 1 - Neej thiab dab, mi xyoob mi ntoo, mi tsiaj txhu nrog rau 1 puas tsav yam uas muaj sia puav leej hais ib hom lus.

Neeg tshwm sim zaum 2 - Yog lub caij txiv neej yug menyuam, tuag 3 zaug mam li tuag tiag tiag. kab tshoob kev khoob thiaj rhawv muaj, lub mob lub ntshaj thiab li poob los txog, ib siab ob qiag thiaj li mam rhawv tau.

Neeg tshwm sim zaum 3 - Yog lub caij poj niam los yug menyuam, tuag 1 zaug lawm xwb, neej thiab dab, xyoob ntoo, tsiaj txhu nrog rau 1 puas tsav yam uas muaj sav puav leej hais tsis ib hom lus lawm.

Puas muaj leej twg tseem ceev tau cov hauv paus dab neeg xws li:

1. Tus koov nyiaj thiab tus koov kwb     
2. Tooj thiab Hlau   
3. Kab tshoob kev khoob     
4. Neeb yaig       
5. Lus ntees tuag   
6. Lub nrua tuag
7. Rab Qeej
8. Tus txhib ntawg

[genuinely]

look people, it's already been settled that hmong people were formed from the outcast clans of mongolia. we didn't want to participate in khan's violent conquest so we were banished to a remote area in china, where the chinese eventually booted us to the mountains of southeast asia.

[realism]

look people, it's already been settled that hmong people were formed from the outcast clans of mongolia. we didn't want to participate in khan's violent conquest so we were banished to a remote area in china, where the chinese eventually booted us to the mountains of southeast asia.

sources please...

[genuinely]

lol isignia's remarks are hilarious. for sure that person is an idiot on so many levels.

[realism]

insignia isn't even in this thread

[koj_tus_hlub]

Interesting...I've seen some albino too.  Wierd...
But never seen blue eyes hmong b4.  Always white/brown hair and red hair. 

Where I live, there is a Hmong family that has two children with white hair and blue eyes. I think it is unique to see someone like them.