Where is the largest Miao tribe in China and the world?

Updated on tourism 2024-08-05
7 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-15

    The Miao people are scattered all over the world, mainly in the provinces of Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Qiong in China, as well as in Southeast Asia.

    Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and other countries and regions.

    The Miao people have their own language, and the Miao language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family.

    The Miao Yao language family is divided into western Hunan and eastern Qiandong.

    and Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan three major dialects. Due to the long-term interaction between the Miao and Han people, some of the Miao people are fluent in both Chinese and Chinese, and the religious beliefs of the Miao people are mainly nature worship and ancestor worship.

    Migration of peoples:

    The Great Migration is the origin of the Miao ancestors in present-day Sichuan, the Yapan River, the Min River, the Ba River, and the Jialing River.

    The upper and middle basins of the four rivers migrated eastward along the Yangtze River to the north and south banks of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and settled between Dongting and Pengli on the south bank; The north shore reaches the Jianghan Plain.

    He has lived here for many years, and with the development of production, life has improved, the population has increased, and the level of science and technology and culture has also improved. This is the first great migration of the Miao people from west to east, and the reason for the great migration is that the ancient Qiang people moved south, forcing the Miao ancestors to migrate eastward, and the time was about tens of thousands of years ago (primitive early people's society).

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-14

    The most authentic Miao people are in Guizhou.

    The Hmong are an ancient ethnic group scattered all over the world. The Miao nationality is one of the ethnic minorities in southwest China. Miao people are more than 50 and live in Guizhou.

    The Miao people are mainly distributed in Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Qiong and other provinces and regions in China, as well as Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and other countries and regions in Southeast Asia. The Miao nationality is one of the ethnic minorities in southwest China.

    According to historical documents and Miao people's word-of-mouth data, the Miao ancestors first lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and their ancestors were Chiyou, and then migrated to the Jianghan Plain in the "Sanmiao" era, and then gradually migrated to the south and west due to the rent-to-wild war and other reasons, entering the southwest mountainous area and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

    The Miao people have their own language, which belongs to the Miao branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, which is divided into three major dialects: Xiangxi, Qiandong and Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan. Due to the long-term interaction between the Miao and Han people, some Miao people are fluent in both Chinese and Chinese. The religious beliefs of the Miao people are mainly nature worship and ancestor worship.

    Hmong customs

    1. Eat oil tea: oil tea is a hospitality tea made of fried popcorn rice mixed with water Qing Xingxiang, the guest drinks, the host is happy, and if you don't drink it, you will be regarded as looking down on the host. Some also have to drink 3 cups, the first cup is oil tea, the second cup is bitter tea, and the third cup is sweet tea.

    2. Wear: The costumes of the Miao people vary from region to region. Generally, the elderly wear collarless diagonal button-down shirts, belts, trouser legs, and leggings.

    Middle-aged people and young people wear cardigans, short and small, and the fabrics are mostly self-produced "home machine spots", and women's clothing has another style, wearing collarless trimmed embroidered clothes on the upper body, decorated with petals in between, and trimmed, embroidered or multi-gauze wide trousers on the lower body.

    3. Live on stilts: 2 3 houses on stilts, eaves and corners, and corridors surrounded by white wooden railings, and railings carved with various patterns. The upper floor of the hanging foot is used to store grain, farm tools, stack firewood, grass, soil ash, or enclose cattle, sheep, pigs and toilets.

    The above content refers to Encyclopedia - Miao people.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-13

    The Miao people in China are mainly distributed in Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hubei, Hainan and other provinces and regions. In the junction area of eastern Guizhou and Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou (mainly in western Hunan), there are large settlement areas. There are also small settlements in Guangxi, the border area of Yunnan-Guizhou-Guizhou and Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan and Hainan.

    Elsewhere, the Hmong live in a mixture with other ethnic groups. The Miao people are an ancient ethnic group, scattered all over the world, mainly distributed in China's Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Qiong and other provinces and regions, as well as Southeast Asia Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and other countries and regions. According to historical documents and Miao people's word-of-mouth data, the Miao ancestors first lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and their ancestors were Chiyou, who migrated to the Jianghan Plain in the "Sanmiao" era, and then gradually migrated to the south and west due to wars and other reasons, entering the southwest mountainous areas and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

    Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, some Miao people have migrated to Southeast Asian countries, and in modern times, they have migrated from these places to Europe and the United States.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    Distribution in Chinese mainland.

    Miao are mainly concentrated in Guizhou (48.1%), followed by Hunan (21.49%) and Yunnan (11.67%), but also in Chongqing (5.62%), Guangxi (5.18%), Hubei (2.4%), Sichuan (1.65%), Hainan (0.69%). In addition, it is also distributed in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and other countries. The Miao people distributed in various places have many self-names, such as "Mu", "Meng", "Mao", "Guoxiong", "Daisuo", etc., and some places are crowned with different names in front of the word "Miao" according to their places of residence and clothing, such as "long skirt seedlings", "short skirt seedlings", "long horn seedlings", "red seedlings", "black seedlings", "white seedlings", "green seedlings", "flower seedlings", "small flower seedlings" and so on.

    The Miao people mostly believe in animistic primitive religions.

    Distribution in Southeast Asia.

    The Hmong are also the indigenous people of Vietnam and Laos.

    In the northern part of Thailand, the Hmong are also inhabited, with a population of about 120,000 according to the 2004 census, making them the second largest mountain ethnic group in the region after the Garang. They moved from southwest China to northern Thailand around the 18th and 19th centuries. At present, the older generation of Miao people can still speak Yunnan dialect.

    There are also Hmong people who emigrated from China in northern Myanmar.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    According to the four censuses, the population of the Miao nationality in China was 2.51 million in 1953, 2.78 million in 1964, 5.03 million in 1982, and 7.39 million in 1990. According to 1990 data, the Miao are the fourth largest ethnic minority in the total Chinese population. The Miao people are mainly distributed in seven provinces and regions, including Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Hainan.

    Among them, Guizhou has the most. According to the 1990 census, there were 3.6 million Miao people in Guizhou, accounting for nearly half of China's total Miao population. This is followed by 1.55 million in Hunan, 890,000 in Yunnan, 530,000 in Sichuan, 420,000 in Guangxi, 200,000 in Hubei, and more than 50,000 in Hainan.

    The Miao population in these seven provinces accounts for more than 98% of the total Miao population in the country. In these seven provinces and regions, there are Miao autonomous areas. Where:

    There are 6 autonomous prefectures, which are: Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Southwest Guizhou Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hunan, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan, and Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei; There are 23 autonomous counties, namely, Mayang, Jingzhou and Chengbu in Hunan, Songtao, Yinjiang, Wuchuan, Daozhen, Zhenning, Ziyun, Guanling and Weining in Guizhou, Pingbian, Jinping and Luquan in Yunnan, Xiushan, Youyang, Qianjiang and Pengshui in Sichuan, Rongshui, Longsheng and Longlin in Guangxi, and Qiongzhong and Baoting in Hainan. The above-mentioned distribution areas of the Miao nationality are basically contiguous, and at the same time, in some places, they form a regional pattern of intermingling with other ethnic groups. The Miao people in China mainly live in mountainous areas, such as Wuling Mountain on the edge of the Hunan and Guizhou Rivers, Miao Ling and Moon Mountain in the southeast of Guizhou, Ma Mountain in the south of Guizhou, Da Miao Mountain in Guangxi, and Wumeng Mountain on the edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou River.

    In particular, the living environment of the Miao people in the west is even worse, and most of them live in the high mountains and mountain areas or rocky mountain areas. In addition, there are thousands of Miao scattered in Shaanxi, Beijing, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other provinces and cities. There are about 2 million Miao people in Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, as well as the United States, Canada, Argentina, French Guiana, France, Australia and other countries.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    It is concentrated in the southeastern part of Guizhou Province, Damiaoshan in Guangxi, Hainan Island and the border areas of Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi and other provinces and regions.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Mainly distributed in Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces!

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