Mien

Traditional songs of the mountain tribes of Mien, recorded in the field by Laurent Jeanneau from the label Kink Gong. Mien is the largest branch of the Yao people, whose name originates from a legend about a dog that saved the daughter of a Chinese emperor and married her. The name Mien simply means "people." Mien number 4 million people and are scattered in the southern Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, as well as in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, where they have migrated over the centuries. As part of the Miao-Yao group of the Chinese-Tibetan ethnolinguistic family, they have many subgroups, usually identified by the colors of their traditional clothing.

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