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My ancestors and I are Miao Zu from the Juili tribe originated in China for more than 5,000 years ago. Who are the Miao/Hmong? It is believed that the Miao called themselves "Mao" in ancient time. The term "Miao" is a given name to the Mao by the Han-Chinese (Huaxia). In the Huaxia history, the Mao were recorded as "Miau, Miau-Tsz, Miautsze, and Miao Zu". The term "Hmong" did not appear in Huaxia history until 1911. (Lee, 2007) There is no history to where the Miao/Hmong came from before the Yellow River. The Miao had a long history in China dated back to more than 5,000 years ago. The Hmong/Miao were the aborigines of the Yellow River Valley in China. In Chinese history, it was even said so. (Li Ung Bing, Outline of Chinese History (Soochow: Soochow University, 1914, page 2). These aborigines were called, the "Sons of the soil".(Lockhart, 1861, page 180) Juili was formed and leaded by Chi You. Jui means "Nine" and Li means "Moon". Juili means "Cuaj Lig Ntuj" (The Nine Heavenly Groups). There were nine tribes, comprising eighty-one subgroups, formed alliances and elected Chi You as their supreme leader. Chi (Txiv) means "father " and You (Yawg) means "grandfather". Chi You's real name was Jiang Yang. After his death, he got the posthumously nickname Chi You. Chi You is often depicted as half bull or beast in Chinese history. He had horns. The horns symbolized of a crown made of wild oxen horns as a grand chief of the nine Juili tribes. Some of the Miao in China today still have these horns as part of their traditional attires. When the Huaxia saw that Chi You ate beans and millets, they thought that his people ate grains of sand. In Chinese history, it is said that Chi You and his people digested sands. The beans and millets that Chi You and his people ate were probably "Mov Kuam" a type of rice made out of grounded maize and rice which resembled yellow sand. The Miao people are referred to as the people of rice and cultivation. Shennong, one of the Miao ancestors before Chi You's time is considered an Emperor, Emperor of the Five Grains in the Huaxia's mythology. He taught his people in his time to cultivate and use herbal medicines. Modern Chinese herbal medicines came from him. The Miao/Hmong had a bitter history because of their coexistence with the Huaxia. The Miao/Hmong were oppressed, suffered, neglected by the Huaxia for thousands of years. When the Huaxia took over, the Miao lost almost everything. Their land, inventions were copied and stolen. The Huaxia later ascribed them into their own culture heroes. What the Huaxia recorded about the Miao in their history was inhumane and unacceptable. The Miao weren't savages, they were more civilized before the Huaxia were. The Miao knew how to use bronze and iron as armors, cultivation, weaving and spinning wheel for clohtes, used herbal medicines, raised animals and formation of government. The Miao were also the ones taught them how to live because they lived like wild beasts, ate their food raw. The Miao also taught the Huaxia how to use fire. According to the Huaxia account, of the 81 Miao tribes, one of the tribes is said to have a literature. This tribe is called the Ko Lo. There are over 600 characters in the writing system, and knotted like worms. These characters are symbols of sounds. (Deka, 1867) I have a theory to why we lost our ancient writing system, it was them. It was brunt by them. It wasn't because the cow or rat ate the book of knowledge (ancient Miao writing system) like a legend was told. Similar to some indigenous people here in North America. Before the Europeans arrived, some of the natives had their own writing system, a library, government, land, but when the Europeans got here the natives' library, writing system were burnt, and their land were stolen. They too were oppressed and neglected. It is now time for us Miao to reclaim what truly belongs to us and rewrite our history from our perspectives. I do sound like a nationalist. I know I do. A lot of the Hmong are.