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From The Miao Legendary "Lanjuan Yi 蘭娟衣" to 'Taiwanese Fujian Ancestors"

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Revere the Spirits of Nature  A gift from a Yunnan Lahu ( 拉祜族)    family -  embroidery in Lahu traditional colors and motif.  Yunnan 2018 I learned from my two-week Yunnan trip in 2018, as a 'general rule', ethnic minority colours and motif represent the way the people revere spirits of nature - From one of the more distant and 'ancient'  The Nashi 納西族 (who are thought to have come originally from northwestern China and settled in Tibet) to The Miao  苗族  (who perhaps Taiwanese are more familiar with, as well as by the term 'cooked' and 'raw' indigenous peoples referring to the levels of assimilation into Han culture). The blue lines, for example, are streams and rivers. The bright pink, the flowering plants in the grass lands.  "How and where our Fujian ancestors originated and migrated from" What inspired me for this short quick post is actually from a recent informal conversation within the 'Taiwan Old Family' group I  belong to - by