Muong people and their goods
Muong girl
Muong women walking back home in the late afternoon
Muong people in the market of Sapa
Two Muong women selling their craftworks under the Silver Warerfall of Sapa
The Mường is the third largest of Vietnam’s minority groups, with an estimated population of 1.2 million. The Muong people inhabit the mountainous region of the north. They are most closely related to the ethnic Vietnamese (the Kinh). While the Muong are believed to be related to the Vietnamese, some ethnologists theorize the Muong remained in the mountains and developed independently while the Vietnamese moved to the low country and became influenced by Chinese culture resulting from the 111 BC invasion by Chinese Han Emperor Wu Ti. The Muong and the Tai have had a mutual influence on each other’s culture. So, today the Muong are ethnically close to the Vietnamese, but culturally and socially similar to the Tai.
Sapa, North Vietnam
The Mường is the third largest of Vietnam’s minority groups, with an estimated population of 1.2 million. The Muong people inhabit the mountainous region of the north. They are most closely related to the ethnic Vietnamese (the Kinh). While the Muong are believed to be related to the Vietnamese, some ethnologists theorize the Muong remained in the mountains and developed independently while the Vietnamese moved to the low country and became influenced by Chinese culture resulting from the 111 BC invasion by Chinese Han Emperor Wu Ti. The Muong and the Tai have had a mutual influence on each other’s culture. So, today the Muong are ethnically close to the Vietnamese, but culturally and socially similar to the Tai.
Sapa, North Vietnam
Fall 2006
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