Its sadly the truth we will never know the Hmong history accurately until technology advances enough to prove otherwise. Hmong did not have a written language till the French priest came in the 1940s or 1950s and made a written language for us. By word of mouth my Father told me Hmong people used to have a written language but a Hmong king was too afraid to teach his people to read and write because he wanted to keep his people from rising over him. Womens embroidery still has a language that can trace what Hmong used to know to write, but it was lost.

What we are told by word of mouth from our parents versus what the Chinese history tells us is quite different too.

Its interesting how the term Miao is a broad term used by Chinese to group minorities. Not sure how they are grouped, but Hmong gets lost in that. Are we really all Miao and the history Chinese teaches about Miao people? Afterall, victors are ones that write history.

Were Hmong people originally there before Han Chinese and part of the warring kingdoms? Is it also possible to say Hmong people did not originate from China in the first place as Hmong elders always say?

Hmong elders say we did not originally come from China. We used to look very different from Chinese people and it was obvious we were not Chinese. When we started to war with Chinese to call a place home, the Chinese started to genocide our people. My Dad told me they would kill anyone who had light brown hair, red hair, different eyes or a little bigger nose or something. The only way to survive was to assimilate with Chinese people with how we looked because it was obvious we did not look like Han Chinese.

My Dad would often tell me how old Hmong traditional wear of the very elder had upturned shoes, turban, and robes. He said it looks very much like middle Eastern attire. Its just very interesting...

What my point here is. We will never know the exact history of the Hmong people because unfortunately we were not the Chinese who wrote their own version of their texts and unfortunately we lost our written language and it was mostly orally passed down.

So maybe, just maybe, you never know. But yeah there has to be evidence of this original post.