Traditional Hmong Funeral - Nyaj Tshaav Ntuj
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ย. 2019
- Traditional Hmong Funeral - Nyaj Tshaav Ntuj (Sunshine Money)
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As a Hmong-American who juggled two cultures and lacked Hmong language proficiency, I struggled tremendously when it came to fulfilling traditional roles at Hmong funerals. I used to dread attending funerals mainly because I wanted to avoid my responsibilities and embarrassment. But as I learned more about the culture and improved my Hmong language proficiency, I began to understand the process and its significance. I also began feeling more comfortable and appreciative that such practice exist to display gratitude and respect for one another. I hope this video helps provide you all with some guidance and understanding of what happens during the process of giving sunshine money. Below is the written script of what I share in this video:
Ua tsaug nawb mog
Peb tsev xyom cuab
Tsev pluj tsev tuag
Tsev puag tsev nroog
Koj tsi ca le
Koj tsuas xaav neej xaav tsaav
Xaav ntsuab xaav zev
Koj tseem toom txheej toom lis
Nyaj txag nto tuaj paab peb tsev xyom cuab
Tam kev neej kev tsaav
Lwm nub peb tsev xyom cuab txawj ua lub neej ces
Peb yuav ncu koj tug txaj tug ntsis
Peb tsi txawj ua neej ces
Cuag le yuav muab koj tug txaj tug ntsig
Moog ntsum zoov ntsum tsuag
Ua naag tshauv naag tsha yaaj
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Very helpful for the newer generations of Hmong men, thank you!
Beautiful explanation, brother. My family and I just lost our father last week and are now preparing for what we anticipate to be a huge funeral ceremony for him bc he was such a big name to our Thao families and others regionally in the Midwest. As a Hmong daughter married to a non-Hmong man, hearing this comforts me and makes my heart ache at the same time as my brothers and male elders/relatives are now preparing for this speech. 😪
Thank you for this video!
Thank you 👐👐
You're welcome
Thank you for explaining everything. It's still hard for me 😆 🤣.
Sadly I am a daughter and as part of a traditional family, we are often told we do not need to know this stuff. Thank you for sharing!
It's 2022, you should get rid of that thought. Women are as equal if not greater than some men out there. Breaking that barrier starts with you, you should learn it and shock everyone at the next funeral. It is how change is created, understood, then followed.
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing and teaching. Our younger generations are coming back around and learn our own culture. Some of us are not as fortunate as others to have someone teach us.
Thanks for sharing.. it helps my sons!
You're welcome!
Great work on this much appreciated by the community
Thank you for this video. It is very helpful.
You're welcome 😁
Thank you for sharing this very detailed informative information. I also grew up from a traditional family and I’ve lived out my single life under my parents. I’m very close to my parents especially my mom who coach me and get me involved with every traditional ceremony, funeral, wedding, hu plig. I’ve also read and research on few traditional practices such as Shamanism and Funeral. I’m also open to Christianity allowing options/opportunities to expand knowledge beyond the horizon. I know I’m not limited to what my elders have taught/shown or passed down from many generations. It’s great to learn variety traditions/beliefs. One day we’ll come to a point where we have to chose what we want for ourselves or our family. Key is we can chose or be influenced by elders (go with the flow). Thanks again.
You're welcome!
Very great video! It's a great refresher after watching this video!
Wow, so relatable
I wished that more people would clearly explain these traditions to us…
Thank you so much for taking you time to help us learn our culture. I speak hmong white but I can kind of understand you.
You're welcome. That's great!
Thank you. You saved alot of "boys" like me.
This was an amazing video thank you so much bro
This is awesome! Thank you brother for shsring!
alright I got it down thanks 😊
I'm partly white wash ski this is difficult
Same here, I’m still struggling with this these days. It’s hard to practice Hmong traditions when we are all so busy with work, school and family. Thanks for all the helpful videos.
Woohoo! Just like your titles named and put your hearts to it eventually only if you're want a person to looking at you shows respect you. Awwwe, are you sure, seriously? And no excuse for school, busy with work, and family etc.. though.
I'm hmong at a funeral you hit a drum and an person has to hit it and another person needs a giant flute. Once your done people will wear fake money and burn it and they will have this small stick and bow everyone has to bow and Adler has to stay up until it's done kids can sleep but it has to be at funeral
My mother is in hospice care now and I need to learn this poem asap 😢. This video is very helpful for us Hmong Mekas kids that have no idea of what to do or say at funerals.
Sorry to hear. Sending positive vibes 🙌🏼🙏🏼❤️
Bro thanks for sharing 👍👍
I don't have to, but imagine being raised up the church way, and having a funeral the Hmong way.
I never really understood, IDK, I thought it was kinda odd, but not until one of my Brothers passing, I suddenly could understand, like that mental blockage was lifted. Thanks Bro.
Thanks for this video.
You're very well educated in our culture. We should hang out sometimes
Can you say these in the house?
question for you. during Zov Hmo, if someone gives money, does this same saying apply at home too? or is there a different saying during zov hmo at home?
Is it "tsev puag tsev ntsoog or tsev puag tsev nroog?
thanks for this. I know as a hmong guy I personally have not attended as many funerals until the past year where I lost both of my grandmas. I had no idea what to say and I always felt it was embarrassing not knowing it. I learned a bit from my dad but it's like a new language, where if you don't say it enough or use it enough, you tend to lose it. I'm glad you uploaded this and I will certainly do my best to memorize this and use it in the future.
My pleasure to help. Keep it up!!
@@dictumdose I'm just curious if you have multiple versions you use or do you just stick to that one only? I know different people have different ways to say it so I'm just trying to learn.
Very helpful. My whole life me and my family has lived far away from hmong people and now the last 8 years I have lived no where close to a hmong soul. I can;t hardly even understand nor speak hmong anymore...So sad..!
Its not too late to learn bro (: Start with hmong movies. They helped a lot for me.
Wow! You're Hmong right? Its your parents ideas wants you to be learns English only. It's 21 century everythings in TH-cam, never too late. As long as cell phone and computer, laptop is always things to learning bro.
Thanks bro, just lost a special one, will be using this ! Just needs more practice..
Nói như ông vừa tiếng Anh vừa monh thế thì có mà hiểu bằng mắt
You said it right bro. Giving money and receiving money can be a daunting task especially since most Hmong Americans don’t know the Hmong verbiage that is used during traditional Hmong funerals. But Hmong people should not be afraid to learn or question their culture. I’m sure our fathers and uncles are more than willing to help out.
Woohoo! Awwwe, TH-cam learning tools...that's Hmongish. Both languages...D.
Man i wish i wouldve seen this vid sooner! My parents both passed away in a car accident and will be doing a funeral for the first time. We did our moms first and struggled so much with giving thanks to people who gave sunshine money. Dont know if being a christian makes any difference?? Most of the time i was just saying thank you or thank you for coming and helping our family.
Idk if anyone has told you this, but your voice sounds really relaxing when speaking hmong 😅🤣
You should do one on how foom koob hmoov when trying hands and doing birthdays.
This is so amazing to hear you speak about this part of the tradition. I love watching your videos and learning more about our traditions. Can you make a video about the hand tying ceremony and the blessing that you would say to someone as you're tying the string? I never know how to say it in Hmong.
@3:48 Time stamp for those who are practicing like me.
Hmong women work just as hard. It’s a collaboration to make a funeral run smoothly.
During covid, it was hard to find people to help because of the PHE. After my family complied with all the musicians criteria, it took a whole week to persuade them to say yes. The politics of the culture and tradition is broken cuz people are willing to take the credit but not the work.
I know for sure the musicians will be complaining the whole time about the 2 day workload squeezing into one day and will half heartedly do the work while blaming us for the short deadline.
wow...I hear you and agree about collaborative work. There are many things about the tradition/culture that I think could change for the better...but we'll see where the future takes us. Hopefully everything ended on a good note for the funeral
Do you have a video on proper posture and the hand gesture when bow in different scenarios- wedding, jingle bell, funeral?
This will be very helpful for the ones who have zero idea of what to do.
Just like you I always felt the embarrassment of not knowing and I still do to this day. My grandpa's funeral is coming up soon, so im definitely going to learn this since I know it's a very important role especially when people are giving money.
I just wanted to ask why people say not to listen or say this inside of your house? In other videos they say it's fine to listen as long as you have headphones on or if you're outside. It's not any everyday phrase, so I know I'll be practicing it
Glad this helps. As for not saying inside the home, it's spiritual and there are beliefs around that it could bring about negative vibes
Hey brother this video was very helpful. I was wondering if you could do a video on how to ua tsuag neeb? I wanna learn and this video was helpful for me. I’m a fellow Hmong leeg and your videos are very helpful for the us younger generation who want to learn and understand our culture.
I'm glad to hear that. Keep learning and teaching along the way. Unfortunately, I dont know those particular sayings. Hopefully I can teach them when I learn them down the road
Teach us how to say thank you for jingle bell, wedding, and etc.
First rule to learn is, do not call it jingle bell
I’m not Hmoob Green I’m Hmoob White. But I did learn a bit of Hmoob Green in school.
You should make more videos about our tradition and culture. Go into marriage, raising kids, school, everything!
I have question for you. Why and how does a family decide whose responsible in rolling the khob vaj?
sorry if this is a stupid question but what if you’re the giver, do you just stand there awkwardly and just wait til they’re done?
no such thing as a stupid question...that's a great question! There is a response that the giver says in return. I will release that video soon :)
You rephrase it and say it from your side..
You should do more videos of traditional Hmong sayings. its very helpful
Nicely well explained. This is as good and basic as it can get.
Hey brother I really like this. And I want to use it but I can’t really speak Hmong green. I was hoping if you can write me a Hmong white copy? Thanks in advance
I'm not sure how it is said in the hmong white version because the words are different. If you check out NengNow, he has one in hmong white version. He's pretty good at it too.
Thanks
Actually this is the white version but brother said it in green dialect. The green version is a little different from this version.
Listeners, you’re not allowed to say or listen to this inside the house!!!
This is completely ok to say anywhere including in the house. This is only a simple "Thank you" response for sunshine money.
hey bro u know you can't listen to this inside the house wtf
Soo whats the point?
The last part not clear... ua tsauv ua nag yaj mean.. peb pab tsis nws rov qab ces cuag li nag tshauv yaj xwb..