The H'mong
are an ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand; they are also one of the sub-groups of the Miao ethnicity in southern
China.
Bắc Hà is a rural district of the Lào Cai Province in the Northeast region of Vietnam and the "capital" of the Vietnamese Flower H'mong, one of the more than 50 minorities of Vietnam and of the six main groups of the H'mong people.
Bắc Hà town is famous for its Sunday morning market, where thousands of locals
gather, the older women dressed in their handmade, very intricate and colourful traditional costumes
(it takes three to five months to embroider one by hand) and the younger women in their tribal costumes manufactured in China. Another large Flower H'mong market is the Saturday morning market at Can Cau aka Can Cao, c. 20 km
north of Bắc Hà.
Many H'mong practice shamanism and ancestor worship.
Like other animists, they also believe that all things are endowed with
spiritual beings and so should be respected. Significant numbers of the Vietnamese H'mong
who seek to worship independently of the regime of the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam have reportedly been subjected to military attacks, police arrest, imprisonment,
extrajudicial killings, and torture.
During the Indochina Wars, the United States recruited thousands of H'mong people to fight against forces from north and south Vietnam, known as the Secret War, during the Vietnam War.
Hundreds of thousands of H'mong refugees fled to Thailand seeking
political asylum. Thousands of these refugees have resettled in Western
countries since the late 1970s, mostly the United States, Australia and Canada.
High-res portrait photographs with complete exif data, geotags and other specs in Matt Hahnewald's
Flickr Album 2018-03d Motorbiking in Northeast Vietnam
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