Tag: flower
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Vietnam ~ 2018
Visit Bac Ha market. Bac Ha is the largest Sunday market in the area as well as the most colorful one. Here we meet mostly Flower Hmong and then Phu La, Black Dao, Tay, Nung minorities. The market offers a variety of local products, which could not be … Read Full Article
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The Honey Flower Tree
Life in the Hmong village was not easy, but it had been simpler, even purer, to Chue Vang’s mind. His boyhood lungs were strangers to exhaust fumes, his boyhood thirst was quenched by pristine water. He has always missed the scents of the valley … Read Full Article
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What Makes Your Neighborhood Great?
The Hmong flower sellers grow many of their blossoms just north of the city, and my butchers have been in business for generations. But it’s more than just the fresh food and gorgeous tableau that make the market feel like home. When my husband and I … Read Full Article
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“Cloth as Community” coming to Sioux City Public Museum
A unique blend of fabric and artwork that originated in Southeast Asia is making its way to Sioux City. An exhibit called “Cloth as Community: Hmong Textiles in America” will go on display at the Sioux City Public Museum on Saturday. Hmong flower cloth was … Read Full Article
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PUBLIC MUSEUM FEATURES HMONG STORY QUILT EXHIBIT
A new exhibit featuring story quilts and cloth whose origins stem from Southeast Asia is now being featured at the Sioux City Public Museum. Director Steve Hansen says the Hmong flower cloth is one of the world’s great textile traditions, with the quilts … Read Full Article
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For Twin Cities troupe Mu, ‘Flower Drum Song’ will be a celebration
This is a modern-day cast with people who are mixed-race Asian, who are Korean or Filipino or Hmong. The fact that such diversity exists on that stage with their level of skill — forget about it. I’m a crying mess. But this is the harvest of what Mu … Read Full Article
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Discovering white plum blossom season in Moc Chau
White rapeseed flower fields bloom under hills with immense white plum blossom. Tile houses with gray mud walls with architectural style of Hmong ethnic minority are scattered among white plum flowers forest. The journey bringing you to Pa Khen Hamlet, … Read Full Article
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A Motorcycle Trip Through Northern Vietnam
Early the next morning, I found Bac Has market. Men in puffy jackets and women in the colorful dresses of the Flower Hmong ethnic group hawked vegetables, meat, coffee, textiles, plastics, electronics, and livestock. Shoppers carried bags with squirming … Read Full Article
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Rural Retreat: Explore the diverse markets of Northern Vietnam’s highlands
The Hmong people are an ethnic group who originate in the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, they are made up of several sub-groups including Flower Hmong, White Hmong and Black Hmong. Visiting the lesser known markets of the North … Read Full Article
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49 Voices: Pa Mipajntsuab in Anchorage
Pa lives in the Mountain View neighborhood in Anchorage. (Photo by Anne Hillman, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage) PA: I have a Hmong last name but it’s kind of long. Mipajntsuab (mei-ban-zhuo). Yeah, and it stands for “Little Flower Green.” Read Full Article
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Studio 96 explores Hmong community through cloth
STERLING — Hmong flower cloth — or paj ntaub — is one of the world’s great textile traditions and an excellent example of cloth as community. Despite its deep roots in Hmong culture, this complex art was not widely known outside Asia until after … Read Full Article