Where are most of the Miao people located?

The Hmong, scattered around the world, are mainly distributed in China's Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Qiong and other provinces and regions, as well as Southeast Asia's Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and other countries and regions.

According to historical documents and the Miao word-of-mouth information, the Miao ancestors first lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, their ancestors are Chi You, "Three Miao" era and migrated to the Jianghan Plain, and then because of war and other reasons, gradually to the south, to the west of the great migration into the southwestern mountainous areas and the Yunnan-Gui Plateau. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a part of the Miao people migrated to Southeast Asian countries, and in recent times, they have migrated to Europe and the United States from these places.

Expanded Information

The dietary practices of the Miao have their own characteristics. Miao people in southeast Guizhou, western Hunan, Hainan Island and Guangxi Rongshui, the staple food is rice, but also corn, sweet potatoes, millet and other miscellaneous grains; Miao people in northwest Guizhou, southern Sichuan, northeastern Yunnan, corn, potatoes, buckwheat, oats and other staple food. There are many kinds of side dishes.

Meat has home-raised livestock, poultry and fish, vegetables have beans, vegetables, melons, in addition to collecting wild vegetables and engage in fishing and hunting to supplement. Sour and spicy two flavors are indispensable in the life of the Miao people. In the past, due to the lack of salt in the mountains, so many Miao people eat lightly all year round, can only be flavored with sour and spicy, and over time to form a habit.

Miao people especially like to eat acid, almost every family makes its own sour soup, pickles, sour and spicy, pickled fish, Miao sour soup fish tender soup fresh, fragrant and delicious, famous. Miao people like to drink wine.

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