Hmong Legends Describes Life in Ancient Time in Land of Ice and Snow

In this video the Chukchi dialects and facial feature are very much similar if not almost the same as the Hmong’s. And it is a place of Ice and snow. About the Hmong. “One Hmong legends describes life in an ancient time in a land of ice and snow.” Ses.Westport.K12.Ct.Us. Now look at the Chukchi dialects, facial feature and they are in a land of ice and snow. Www.Youtube.Com.

The Hmong: Part 1 Legend and History

By JG Learned | Www.North-By-North-East.Com

To recount the ancient history of an oral culture is a particularly difficult undertaking. It is reliant upon three things: the memory of its elders, the veracity of those memories, and the shadows left behind in the writings of other cultures that confirm those memories. The last is particularly problematic because the relationships between Hmong and other groups that sought to dominate or assimilate them were consistently hostile and prejudiced. Referred to as rebels by Confucius, barbarians and mercenaries by French, Thai and some American scholars, Hmong identity in the eyes of others has been least presented by the Hmong themselves. Efforts to reconstruct the history of the Hmong are further hampered because so many of the elders that retained the oral traditions were killed in the fighting and the aftermath of the Viet Nam War. There are various colorful Asian folk tales and others describing the origin and the several thousand-year histories of the Hmong.

One Hmong legends describes life in an ancient time in a land of ice and snow. Some people believe that was Mongolia. Another legend suggests the migration of the Hmong started much earlier in West Asia, from where they traveled north along the Caspian Sea, east across Siberia, and then south to Mongolia. Later migrations brought them to the lands of what became ancient China, and eventually to the mountainous regions of Northern Laos, Viet Nam, Laos and Burma. It is believed that the Hmong did settle at some time in Mongolia. Folk tales recount Mongolia was named for a Hmong girl of that name. The tale tells of a local ruler having passed away: For several nights the eldest son watched over his father’s body but each night a ghostly knight on a horse would scare the son away. Finally, the youngest son was told to guard the body but was terrified and ran away as well. Everyone in the family was frightened witless, except for a young daughter, named Mongolia.

Unafraid when the apparition appeared, the ghost congratulated her on her bravery. He told her that as she was without fear, he would make her Empress of all the surrounding land and it would be named after her. Legend and ancient Chinese historical record concur the Hmong were a powerful people, who constructed large agrarian communities and were the rulers of the fertile area around Beijing, preceding the Han Chinese. According to Chinese historians, the Hmong lived in China ‘s Hebei province in the 3rd millennium B.C. About 2,700 B.C, the expanding Han Chinese population moved southward into territory ruled by the Hmong, then referred to as the Jiu Li Tribe – a confederation of several tribes. The Jiu Li leader was the legendary warrior Chief Chi-Yu. He fought ten battles with the invaders, just northwest of modern-day Beijing (Peking), winning nine but losing the tenth.

When Chi-Yu was captured he was executed and cut into nine pieces, the body parts buried in nine far-distant mounds so that the Jiu Lu people would never be reunited. After so many battles and so much loss of life, the Chi-Yu Empire collapsed. Hmong civilization ended and Chinese civilization began. Everywhere the Hmong settled, Han Chinese and other ethnic groups joined forces to attack them, driving them from the fertile lowlands into the mountains. The Han continued to move southward on the heels of the Hmong. Chinese annals of 2200 BC mention the Ta Mung people of the San-Miao Kingdom in Schechuan Province. Once again, the Hmong were defeated, but this time they were nearly exterminated. The Hmong dispersed, most migrating southward into the lower reaches of the Yellow River, to Yunnan Province and the mountain fastness of Northern Viet Nam and possibly Northern Laos, where they could retain their cultural integrity. No one knows what happened to those who fled northwestward.

Probably they were absorbed into other ethnic minorities. Now look at the Chukchi dialects, facial feature and they are in a land of ice and snow.

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