Hmong people generally came from the hill and mountain area just south of China. According to different sources, Hmong people lived in China for 2000 years before generally migrating south in the 1700s. They moved to escape the oppressive Qing Dynasty.
(Source: Coco Kelly)
Members of the Hmong ethnic group have lived in this mountainous and hilly region of Southern China and Southeast Asia for thousands of years, though the Hmong have never had their own country. In the 1970s, many Hmong were recruited by the United States to help them fight the Laotian and Vietnamese Communists. Hundreds of thousands of Hmong have since left Southeast Asia and brought the intriguing Hmong culture to distant parts of the world. About 3 million Hmong remain in China, 780,000 in Vietnam, 460,000 in Laos, and 150,000 in Thailand. Hmong people also reside in various other parts of the world as well but these areas are the most notable.
The Hmong people have a history of conflict between them and the Chinese government. Because of this, they have migrated to various parts of China and the world (such as places in above paragraph). Today they have adapted to the various countries in which they live. I will discuss more of this in a later blog post on this group and cultural survival.
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