A Miao Musical Welcoming

The elder men of Upper Langde Village play a song on lusheng (芦笙) as part of a Miao group welcome ceremony. To enter Upper Langde, visitors must traditionally consume "roadblock liquor" at twelve stages set up on the path to the village gate. At each roadblock, costumed women sing to persuade guests to drink their homemade rice liquor which they offer in buffalo-horn cups.
Upper Langde is located at the foot of Leigong Mountain on the bank of the Danjiang River in Leishan County of southwestern China's Guizhou Province. It is home to over 130 families of Long Skirt Miao. Established over 600 years ago, the village has maintained its traditional character with densely-packed wooden houses constructed without the use of nails. Rice, corn potato, sweet potato, and tobacco are the main crops grown in the surrounding fields. The main draw for tourists is the lusheng and bronze drum dance performances featuring village women dressed in their finest hand-embroidered clothes and festooned with heavy silver jewelry.
Interested in visiting Langde Miao Village to see a lusheng dance performance? Join Brian K. Smith and I in August on Adventurocity's Southwest China Cultural Minorities and Classical Landscapes tour. Our local guide is from this village and his family still lives here: ht.ly/445ZY.

[@niamtxiv]

thank you for sharing. very beautiful.

[@fuethao1393]

Mong NyobtuamGhoj muajzootxujci kawg NcuJoov yogMongsiib Mongland nawb

[@blueprintexpressofsantacru8325]

thoughts and prayers

[@RaquelGarcia-in3oi]

Hello, I am a volunteer docent at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California. We have an exhibit of Miao silver. I am creating an online tour for our members who cannot come to the museum due to Covid-19 restrictions. I would like to use a few seconds of the music in your video to open the tour. May we have your permission? We, of course will give you full credit and point our viewers to your channel.

[@dbadagna]

Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture

[@quietRIOTvoice]

They have the notion that through out history and folklore these last names have good and strong family ties that goes back to Chi You Era 2700 B.C. and even before him. These family have not yet committed treachery or disgraced their family name according to them and other Gho Xiong. They have allowed me(Wu) and my cousin(Vue) from the US a lot more freedom with their daughters then usual. 2 of their beautiful daughters wanted to coming home with us.

[@gerloke914]

Miao sua translates to indoctrinated wildings. Hmong people are free people. There is no affiliation.

[@xovyeejthoj9026]

Zoos👍👍👍👍🏡

[@jan-willemvankaathoven914]

Maybe, but still a good jam

[@quietRIOTvoice]

It was an honor and their daughters were like I said beautiful but we both were not ready for such intense connections. Who knows? Maybe they were playing with us only (hopefully). But now my cousin is kind of scared to reveal family names when he comes here. Hopefully he comes back through cause I got plenty of elders ready to disclose Chi You's real story to him (without the political BS).

[@chaylee1616]

It is hmong just different dialect!!

[@gerloke914]

No.

[@niamtxiv]

why is that?

[@adventurocity]

According to Wikipedia: "The Miao live primarily in southern China... Some... most notably Hmong people, have migrated out of China into Southeast Asia... There has been a recent tendency by (H)mong Americans to group all Miao peoples together under the term Hmong because of their disdain for the Chinese term Miao... however... the vast majority of Miao people do not classify themselves as Hmong and have their own names for themselves."

[@gerloke914]

Yes. Hmong people are not Miao people and I am ashamed of them.

[@mryang3644]

@@gerloke914 so are you Miao?

[@quietRIOTvoice]

they fancy these last names. They have the notion that through out history and folklore these last names have good and strong family ties that goes back to Chi You Era 2700 B.C. and even before him. These family have not yet committed treachery or disgraced their family name according to them and other Gho Xiong. They have allowed me(Wu) and my cousin(Vue) from the US a lot more freedom with their daughters then usual. 2 of their beautiful daughters wanted to coming home with us.

[@gerloke914]

Vue is a treacherous clan.

[@hmongb9656]

Ger Loke lol

[@yakovhadash]

what lol

[@Ooilei]

Their language sounds like Hmong.

[@sheila35e]

Ooilei I agree. it sounds like Hmong. But it's not Hmong. I speak Hmong and I couldnt understand a word they were saying. 🤔

[@Koj839]

try listening to Western Miao dialect. if you speak Hmong green you'll understand.

[@tonyvue6685]

Lawv tsis yog hmoob na lawv yog Yao los yog Lwb xwb....txhua haiv neeg uas tsis yog Suav lub noob qe yug suav muab hua ua Miao tas nrho.. Vim lo lus Miao yog ib lo lus zoo li Nplog noj tuv hu peb ua Cat/los yog Miv no xwb na OK nej nkag siab los...

[@gerloke914]

Miao translates to indoctrinated wildings. Hmong people are free people.

[@quietRIOTvoice]

LOL if you go visit this ethnic group...lol...bring a girlfriend or a wife along. If your a single Hmong white branch with family names Vue or Wu or Moua or Mao and intend to stay single bring 3 other friends or a girlfriend with you LOL.