What is the Hammock Family

The Hmong have the "Hammered Rule", "Hammered Covenant" and "Hammered Words".

In the traditional society of the Miao, there is a social organization called the "Hammer", which is developed by the tribal council of the clan. By the "Hammer" organization regularly agreed upon by the recognized civil statutes called "Hammer rules", also known as "Hammer about". It involves all aspects of the production and life of the Miao people. In the Miao society, the Hammer Statute once collectively agreed, it has become an unwritten customary law, everyone must comply with, or will be subject to collective condemnation and punishment, which maintains the local production, life and normal social order, etc., have played a positive role. Due to the history of the Miao people do not have their own text, so the "hammer rules" "hammer about" more than oral tradition, has never been. Since the modern times, some places have appeared with the statute provisions written in Chinese, some written on paper, forming the text; some written on a wooden plate, hanging in the "discussion of the hammer tree"; some carved on the stone tablets, to inform the township. For the violation of the "hammer rules" "hammer contract" behavior, both economic penalties, but also physical punishment, as well as deprivation of honor and even expulsion from the village and other sanctions. Some Miao settlements also further standardize the hammer rules and regulations into "Hammer Words" with the nature of legal rules and regulations, stipulating that "the mountains should be closed and opened regularly to protect the growth of trees", "stealing and cutting down the cedar trees of other people's homes will be punished with three taels of silver! ", "Stealing someone's pine tree is fined 1.23 taels of silver", "Stealing someone's crops is fined 6 taels of silver", "Stealing water from someone's field is fined 2 taels of silver", "Stealing water from someone's field is fined 2 taels of silver", "Stealing water from someone's field is fined 2 taels of silver". ", "Stealing fish from other people's fields is a fine of four taels of silver", "Stealing and cutting the tree that protects the village and the feng shui tree is a fine of nine taels of silver" and so on. In the traditional Miao society, "hammer rules" "hammer about" once agreed upon by the public, we must erect a mark to show the solemnity, some buried a stone, half of which is exposed to the ground, known as the "buried rock" In some cases, a stone is buried with half of it exposed to the ground, which is called the "buried rock", and cedar, maple, and nanmu trees are planted next to it, which is called the "negotiation tree", and is therefore called the "buried rock legislation" or the "negotiation hammer legislation" by experts who study the legal and cultural traditions. The Hmong people in some areas still call all kinds of meetings as "Hammock".