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Background: The Miao(Hmong) People
The Miao were just as fierce as the Mongols, though with a peaceful nature, content with the simple mountain life they had. Once living on the shores of Yellow River, near present-day Beijing, they were driven south after the legendary battle between ChiYou - Miao leader on one side and alliance between HuangDi and YanDi - Chinese leaders on the other side. The Miao were much smaller in numbers but still history writings say that "The Miao won 9 battles but they lost the 10th". After their defeat, the Miao re-established a new kingdom into the lower reaches of the Yellow River, The San-Miao Kingdom.
The Miao are spiritual, superstitious, and beautifully dressed people, and interestingly half of the miao people are blonde hair blue eyed asians. Very skilled and strategic in combat, they wore full body armor consisting of metal helmets, thick buffalo hide covered with copper plates and also covered their arms and legs with iron mail and thick iron bands. They fought with Shield in one hand and a spear in the other and a dagger held between their teeth. They carried powerful crossbows with poison tipped arrows that struck with amazing force.
Story: Miao's Journey to Mongolia
As they were forced by the antagonistic policing of the Han Chinese to move further southwards and to higher elevations, relationships between the Miao and the Chinese are broken. A war breaks out where hatred between the two group could last for many generations to come. Knowing the Chinese also have conflicts with the Xiongnu Mongols, The Miao King married off his daughter to the Great Khan in exchange for a strong alliance. The Khan offers the Miao King and his strongest Miao fighters a place on the steppes of Mongolia, promising to help and defend the Miao people.
Some Mongols, especially those in the Uyghur tribe did not trust in sharing the mongolian steppes with "strangers." There were a lot of tension, arguments, betrayals, infidelities, and violent rivalries between the Miao tribe and the Uyghur tribe.
Will they ever have cooperation amongst the miao and the mongols? will the alliance be strong enough together to defeat the big enemies outside the borders?
((The Miao/Hmong history is controversial because after centuries of war the Chinese were able to oppress the miao and burned all miao written records. "Of their pre-history only one thing is certain, that is that the Miao were in China before the Chinese, for it is the latter themselves who indicate the presence of the Miao in the land, which they, the Chinese, were gradually infiltrating, and which was to become their own country" - J. Mottin, the author of "History of the Hmong."
The role play in Mongolia is its own historical interpretation of the Miao people. enjoy )) |
