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Hmong Culture & History / Are you from cali? Kev ntseeg leej niam community Questions

« on: June 03, 2020, 06:02:39 PM »

I was browsing YouTube on meanings of yaj ceeb and yeeb ceeb. I came across a video from yajsuabzoshmoo vntuj. One thing led to another and now I have questions about this recent 2016 nonprofit organization called kev ntseeg leej niam community.

Is it a cult or a spiritual organization?
Who does leej niam refer to? Mother nature or a Hmong/ Miao goddess? Theres an emphasis in caring for nature.
There's a statue erected and they're going to build a temple so who is this person based off of? The picture is on the website provided below.

Who is this, NIAM NTUJ PLAWV YIS FAI? It's on the guide star page and I am assuming it is the mother they are referring to. They also have their own writing system.

This is their wevsite:
https://www.yajsuabzoshmoovntuj.org/

I also found their mission and more info on this guide star page:
https://www.guidestar.org/profile/81-1424125

If anybody lives in Cali and specifically from Oroville that has more info about this org, can you please share more info to me? Honestly, I'm just curious. I just cant seem to find more info on it and am hoping any local peeps can help me out
 Thanks.

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Hmong Culture & History / Re: can someone educate me on chaofa?

« on: June 17, 2019, 09:17:40 AM »

During the last two weeks of December 1998, I flew as one of my annual solo getaway to what would be an unknown territory to me: French Guiana.

At one of my village visits around that tiny colony of 2,000 or so Hmong, I came upon one man who used to be a Chaofa himself.

So, my source is first-hand knowledge from someone who has witnessed and been one of the group members himself.

The name is a label given to the group of rebel fighters and their non-rebel family members who were just hiding from Communist persecution back in the 70s. Who gave it to them? The Lao Communist government.

Chao is Lao for lord or king. Fa is Lao for sky, he said.

So labeled because the group had a disappearing act after each storming attack on the Commie soldiers or territories.

"We line up in different spots around a mountain or some times a gulley," he said. "When the Communist soldiers came marching on a trail, we planned our attacks: finger pointing to everyone with 'you shoot the first one, you should the second one, you should the third, I shoot the fourth and on and on.'  That way, they wouldn't know exactly where all of us are. They'll hear bullets coming from all places."

Over several years of such attacks, the Commies began to feel this was the force of the sky that would come down unpredictably like lightning. They couldn't come into contact with any human person of the group. During their discussions on how to take down the group, they could only refer to them as the "Chaofa" or "Chao Fa." Hence, the name.

Not first hand experience, but this is similar to what I heard from my mom about the origin of the name of chao fa.

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Hmong Culture & History / Can someone share the story of Yang'asha?

« on: June 13, 2019, 03:06:06 PM »

I remembered the Miao goddess of beauty statue that went up a couple years ago and thought I do more research on this historical Miao figure.

Supposedly Yang'asha symbolizes life and love and the Miao people in Jianhe county knows the story (http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0417/c90000-9203828.html).
 I tried searching up her story and the history but cannot find it anywhere. Either that or it is in Chinese and I don't read or speak Chinese.

If anyone knows the story, can you please share? Very curious right now to how she became a symbol of life and love and how/why she is  a Miao goddess of beauty.

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Hmong Culture & History / Re: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

« on: June 13, 2019, 02:59:13 PM »

So what were the Hmong who were pro-French reasoning for backing the French. Curious...