Video Find of the Day
I find this sort of singing incredibly beautiful. Such a voice could probably carry from village to village, especially in the early morning. You might want to lower the volume. It's comparable to yodeling. At least one of the comments is from someone who seems to know what he's talking about and identifies the song as a Hmong mountain song.
The title calls her Miao, which is a collective Chinese name for a number of ethnic groups of Southern China, including the people who are known in Vietnam as Hmong. The term "Miao" formerly meant barbarian, but evidently those Hmong who live in China are cool with that. I can understand how that could be, being part Scots.
At one time China tried to wall the Miao out the same way they tried to wall out the western barbarians, with even poorer results.
Chinese folk songs of Miao ethnic group 4
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