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Monday, October 10, 2011

Kachin Hilltribe

          The Kachin or they call themselves is “Kim-Phor” migrate to Thailand from the Shan state in Burma, some groups migrated from Yunnan the People's Republic of China together with the Lisu and Lahu. They live together with that tribe that immigrated from the same time around 50 - 60 year ago.

They immigrated only they group in 1974 at DoiLand, Mae-eye District, ChiangMai province and move to live in DoiVawee, Maesuay district, ChiangRai province, then migrate come to live at Pangmayao, Maimokjam, Mae-eye district, ChiangMai province before move come to stay at Baan NongKeaw when 25 ago. Kachin is closeness with Shan, Lisu, Lahu and Akha people because of are the same species language as Tibet – Burma


Information from: Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai

Inmormant: 1. Boonchoo TuaMo 2. Kaew (Ka-Kom) 3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader) and 4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.



          From the hearsay of the old man name “Boon-Choo” in Baan Nong-Keaw, ChiangDao, ChiangMai province. Around 200 more year, the Kachin tribe live in China . Then, the soldier of Mao Tse-tung have to revolution the Chiang Kai-Shek government cause the battle between the soldier of both side and the Kachin tribe spread in the group of Chiang-Kai-Shek soldier. When the soldier of Chiang- Kai- Shek lose then, they flee to Thailand in the Mekong river, Chiang-Khong district Chiangrai province. The soldier of Chiag- Kai-Shek group that flees to Thailand has Kachin tribe too. When they come to stay in Thailand , the Kachin people separate, scattered stay with Haw Chinese, Lahu and when the time passes, the Kachin people have to combination and come together to live in the public house at Baan Nong-Keaw project, Moo 14 Thambon MuangNa, ChiangDao district, Chiangmai province. Baan Maiphattana establishes 25 years ago but they come to stay in Thailand around 200 years. These villages have 60 household, 700-800 persons.


Information from: Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai

Inmormant: 1. Boonchoo TuaMo 2. Kaew (Ka-Kom) 3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader) and 4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.


          The Kachin people live in 2 provinces of Thailand as Chiang Mai and Maehongsorn province. In Chiangmai live in Baan Maiphattana (Kachin) Moo 14 , Thambon Muangna,ChiangDao district Chiangmai province, have the population around 800 peoples in 70 household. Some part live in Praw district, Fang district, Thaton district, Chaiprakarn district, Doisaket distrrict and Sunsai district , Chiangmai province and have to spread is in the part of Maehongsorn province also.


Information from: Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai

Inmormant: 1. Boonchoo TuaMo 2. Kaew (Ka-Kom) 3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader) and 4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.

The festival and yearly ceremonial

1. The ceremony about cultivating for example before plant has will begging for blessing or notify to ancestor that give take care the farmland, do not give animal or obstruction land from the insect come to planting crops. The ceremonies have to kill a pig, a chicken to use in performing a ceremony. They will have ceremony like begin transplant rice seedlings grow, before ready to harvest will arrange perform a ceremony to eat new rice that make for a ghost or ancestor as harvest rice comes to roast and pound give to ancestor before do anything with the rice that they have. “Tuem-Sa” will be a person who performs a ceremony by have the equipment such as dry-cooked rice half unripe, pounded unripe rice “Hmee”. They have to wrapping to give to other person who not comes to attend the ceremony. They believe in that must give the rice to the other eats before them that will make them have effective compensate that plentiful later more. Thereafter they will harvest everything that grows, after harvest finished will have a great ceremony as “Ma-Naw” dance give to ancestor, kill cow, buffalo. If effective produce plentiful, sometime the village will arrange the ceremony for every household or individual.

2. The ceremony in the house or a village. When have often ill, a black magician or “Tuem-Sa” will cast lot to see that thing happen in a village, what is the god wants? They will perform a ceremony to solve with the thing that the god wants. The majority will have the ceremony about solve the bad thing, evil with animal blood. The black magician will fixes the place that will raise the ceremony.

3. The ceremony in the district. The pets that feed get into trouble often, the wild animals comes to a village, pets dies that they will have performing a ceremony, has the respect in the earth god that they must notify to the earth god that if get into trouble will perform a ceremony dig a hole and kill a chicken and young cow (beautiful red) female chicken is red. When they kill finished then bury all over, have not taking meat to eat and take a big piece of stone comes to overlay. If who eat that meat will died, regarded that is as filling bad disease (evil) that do not spread in the community, bury everything with the earth and a stone. After that everyone will under interdiction in a village 7 days, nobody goes out to work in a farm or go out the village to anywhere else. Everybody don't go out outside a village, do not enter the forest to kill animal. After finished this ceremony is regarded as every problem has ended already.


Information from: Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai

Inmormant: 1. Boonchoo TuaMo 2. Kaew (Ka-Kom) 3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader) and 4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.

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