Post by: mongol empire
Source: http://www.chinahistoryforum.com
This is very interesting. let me introduce myself before I reply to people's comment.
I'm a Mongolian now married to my wife (she is hmong). Yes I am. Interesting isn't it. I have many hmong friends and chineses friends. I remember the first day when I attend college a hmong student first approach me with "sup geb mua koj kaw no thiab los." (sorry bad grammer) Which means sup face (slang meaning: homie/friend) you go here too. He thought I was hmong. I look Hmong, but I'm not Hmong. You could said my look is due to genetic, but that's your decision. I have never been interested in Hmong history until I met my wife and learn that the root of the Hmong people have been lost and now they are trying to search and puzzle everything together. You see, is really base on you to decide your history when you are digging that far back. No one could determine your history for you even if they TRY to prove it with "hard data" (written records). Hard data may and could never be true because there is always a dilema when it comes to the history of human-kind dating back that far. There is too much pride within us to believe what's right and wrong and we mostlikely will only agreed to our source (especially our side) of the story. For instance, we have the chinese scholar telling their side of the story about the history of the Hmong and Chinese people which many chinese tend to believe. However, we have the Hmong scholars telling their side of the story which Hmong tend to believe as well. Therefore, there is always a PROBLEM when a history is based on many findings or should I said when is based on a dilema. Let's give a great example of what I'm trying to said.
For example, to said that Hmong people were in China before the chinese, chinese will oppose to this statment. However, to said Hmong people is a sub-group of the antient chinese, chinese will agreed to this statment because the statment state the Chinese being the official race; nevertheless, the hmong people will oppose to it because they also have their own source. If we were to flip it around and say the chinese is a sub-group of the Hmong people, we get the same thing; the Chinese wouldn't agreed to this statment.