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.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Kachin Tribe
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 history of Kachin tribe.
The History of Kachin tribe.
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.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
The believe after death
They will have an agent of a god for choose and examine each person that how much that they have the goodness comes to, if do evil will send to the hell, no go to born, will burn out at the hell.
Information from:
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai1. Boonchoo TuaMo
2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader) and
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
The belief about the occurrence.
After naming finished they will have wrist tying gives a child, pound the “Ja-Tong-Tuay” by have the ginger, egg fish as pound and blessing to a child together. When finished give to the person who tastes and give blessing to a child too.
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant:
1. Boonchoo TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader) and
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
Belief about the water
When they still respect in the original, there performing a ceremony is offer sacrifices to a spirit as water ghost for their have the water to uses all year, then have performing a ceremony “Sung-Hwa-Ka” that have the equipment to use in performing a ceremony is pig or sometimes also a chicken, but can not use black chicken must is red chicken and a male only the reason that be red because a god of kachin tell that. The god is a god who is the Kachin respect, as a topmost god of Kachin. The person who perform a ceremony is “Tum-Sa” and “Tum-Jong”, the villagers come to participates in performing a ceremony. They have the story about the water that “formerly, the god of Kachin order that do not cut the wood in 50 meter distances around a river area by have the order a dragon to takes care a river if have the person who go to cut the wood near a river will get into trouble about the natural disaster such as flood, the storm, born the disaster with the community or lack of the water, have no the water uses, that mean disparage or do not give honor to the river”
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 believe after death
Information from:
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant:
1. Boonchoo TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader) and
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
The tribe name that uses to call by oneself
There have many groups of hilltribes lives together that make the leader can not distinguish the groups or the tribe of the hilltribes people, then tell each group goes to give their name. Kachin people then have consult and give their tribe name that “Jim-Phor” since that time.
Information from:
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant:
1. Boonchoo TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader) and
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
\http://kachin.hilltribe.org
The government authority's name.
Information from:
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant:
1. Boonchoo TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader) and
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
The original name of Kachin tribe.
Often, have the other people asked that “ Where is the place that you live? Then Jim-Phor reply thatis they are Ga-Kiang people and with a slight difference from the original to Kachin. The Kachin word is to call the Kachin people since that time.
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant:
1. Boonchoo TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader)
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
The area lives of Kachin in Thailand .
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 TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader)
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
Court
If they please each other will talk with parents of woman in a house. When they please each other, the man must lead an old person come to ask for marriage .
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)
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
cure of
Herbs
Herbs and the treating of Kachin that have using to many informer times but nowadays very difficult to find the person who still used herb to treat the sickness. They used the herb to treat such as a knife cuts the tendon, they will take herbs “Hma-Chod-Hla” stop the bleeding, the bone breaks they used the stem of “Hma-Chod-Hla” comes to boil and eat that will make the bone join each other. When they has a fever will go to see a person who understand a medicine. The food is poisonous also, they used “Hma-Chod-Hla” eat that make get well, the medicine brings from the Kachin state
Study or inherit about herbs.
learning and inheriting about herb that will teach not freely event they are descendants because if teach freely a medicine that get will not effectively by must have the teacher value give to a doctor that come to teach. The Kachin people believe in that each medicine alive and have the guardian spirit is taking care if there have teacher medicine value has that come to have no deteriorated. The inheritance and learning happen like people who have the knowledge will invite the person who would like to learn go to see when the patient has. When would will to take a medicine must tell the guardian spirit of the forest that will take a herb from the forest, then scatter milled rice round a herb from the left goes to right. After heal finished and the patient get well will take the herb that used already to leavings in the forest originally and tell the guardian spirit that person is get well, we take a herb returns, then scatter milled rice from right go to the left as the ceremony finish .
Massaging
In Kachin tribe have the family name is” Uem-Kum” that have the knowledge about massaging. This family is that heals by massaging, heal the heel, squeeze the heel, in this family even have many “Uem-Kum” but will have a person who be able to do only one. Now start to difficult to seek this family that have the knowledge about massaging to heal the disease.
Herbs and the treating of Kachin that have using to many informer times but nowadays very difficult to find the person who still used herb to treat the sickness. They used the herb to treat such as a knife cuts the tendon, they will take herbs “Hma-Chod-Hla” stop the bleeding, the bone breaks they used the stem of “Hma-Chod-Hla” comes to boil and eat that will make the bone join each other. When they has a fever will go to see a person who understand a medicine. The food is poisonous also, they used “Hma-Chod-Hla” eat that make get well, the medicine brings from the Kachin state
Study or inherit about herbs.
learning and inheriting about herb that will teach not freely event they are descendants because if teach freely a medicine that get will not effectively by must have the teacher value give to a doctor that come to teach. The Kachin people believe in that each medicine alive and have the guardian spirit is taking care if there have teacher medicine value has that come to have no deteriorated. The inheritance and learning happen like people who have the knowledge will invite the person who would like to learn go to see when the patient has. When would will to take a medicine must tell the guardian spirit of the forest that will take a herb from the forest, then scatter milled rice round a herb from the left goes to right. After heal finished and the patient get well will take the herb that used already to leavings in the forest originally and tell the guardian spirit that person is get well, we take a herb returns, then scatter milled rice from right go to the left as the ceremony finish .
Massaging
In Kachin tribe have the family name is” Uem-Kum” that have the knowledge about massaging. This family is that heals by massaging, heal the heel, squeeze the heel, in this family even have many “Uem-Kum” but will have a person who be able to do only one. Now start to difficult to seek this family that have the knowledge about massaging to heal the disease.
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.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
Dressing
The Kachin woman dress, the shirt is black and has long hand arm, has the small ball as a silver decorates on the chest of shirt, the sarong, they weaves, pitch stripes by oneself, has the cloth anticipates the waist, has the stocking. Kachin people have belief about the silver ball that decorates in a woman shirt that it like as the ground that a man of Kachin people has fame to the woman because they believe in that if do not save one's face to a woman will do anything doesn't go up, the vegetables do not grow.
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant:
1. Boonchoo TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader)
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
The generality of Kachin family.
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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.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
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.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
The generality of kachin house
There have two door, the front and backyard door. They will have the shrine that in front of the entrance room. The shrine is the holy thing that the Kachin people respect and prohibit to touch or break anyway.
Information from:
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant:
1. Boonchoo TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader)
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
The field of Kachin tribe
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.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
Make silverware, decorations
To
make silverware, formerly have the belief that houses of Kachin have
money goes out by oneself. Usually they uses pure silver beat by oneself
intimately for pretend the decorations by oneself and include the
agricultural equipment.
- Eyebrows of wild boar, the decorations that decorate on a hat of a man there is the meaning that is the village superintendent, take care a family, help to protect the descendants live happily. The Kachin man when grown up and be a head of the family, then like to take a wild boar comes to decorate at a hat.
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.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org/english/
- Eyebrows of wild boar, the decorations that decorate on a hat of a man there is the meaning that is the village superintendent, take care a family, help to protect the descendants live happily. The Kachin man when grown up and be a head of the family, then like to take a wild boar comes to decorate at a hat.
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.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org/english/
Occupation
The Kachin people have work as
farming such as grow rice, corn, peanut, sesame, pumpkin and right now
they plant a new fruit for them like a passion fruit, mango and avocado.
The Main income and other
The main income of Kachin people from grow corn, peanut and other from work as employee or weaving.
The main income of Kachin people from grow corn, peanut and other from work as employee or weaving.
Information from:
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant:
1. Boonchoo TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader)
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
The population
Kachin in Thailand have the population around 15,000 people
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant:
1. Boonchoo TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader)
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
Prohibition / precept
- Do not enter to the house from the door backyard must enter to the house from the in front only
- If the person who would like to send the bad news must enter the door backyard.
- Send good news must enter the in front door.
- Come too ask for marriage must enter to backyard door and when finish the asking for then must go out from backyard door.
- Can not entry to the front, then go out from the backyard door immediately by no rest.
- Do not entry backyard door, then go out the front door immediately.
- Do not ride a horse go to the village of because it like do not take a honor to a village must lead a horse to enter to the village except when have the person who get sick that can ride a horse but must have a person who leads also.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
The important religious place.
- Do not walk out when the show still not finished.
- Do not walk across at row when have the showing.
- Do not take the food enters to eat in this place.
- The dance person, do not brake the line or alternate the row because will make the ceremony imperfect.
- Do not drink the water, alcohol or smoke in this place.
This place is the place where the Kachin people respect. The people form the outside or from other place enter to the Kachin village if see this place must control themselves and take respect.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
The social position and the culture of Kachin tribe.
• The village leader or administration leader is “Tua” have to govern, take care , happiness and sorrow of the community and judge a case in community including communicate with the officer or the organization from the outside that comes to contact or coordinate activities with the community. Include have the power to making the decision and the problem that happen in the community as in the community gets into trouble “Tua” will have the power in making the decision anyway. If story is big cases “Tua” will call committee of the community comes to share in making the decision.
• The leader for praying in the ceremony or “Tuem-Sa” the person who has the duty in performing ceremony karma in the community such as offer sacrifices to the spirit. When the people in the community has a fever like to come to see “Tuem-Sa” for foretell the reason that make the person who have a fever and what they must do to get better. When know the cause of having a fever from the cause “Tuem-Sa” help perform a ceremony to cure the fever. The reward that “Tuem-Sa” will get when raise perform the ceremony as they kill a pig “Tuem-Sa” will get one leg or in the community has gone out to hunt animal and get the animal neither tiny or big, they will have distribution gives to “Tuem-Sa”and “Tua” With “Tuem-Sa” and “Tua” will help solve the problem when who have the trouble if who don't divide the pieces to “Tuem-Sa” and “Tua” when get into trouble happen “Tuam-Sa” and “Tua” do not come to help and solve the problem. The inheriting position “Tuem-Sa” will have no investigating follows an ancestor but be learning by oneself or come to beg for study with oneself. The person who take an interest will go to see for learn while there is performing a ceremony if in the normally day can not study.
• The assistant for praying leader in the ceremony or “Tuem-Jong”, has the duty to prepare the equipment for perform the ceremony like to make a convenience everything in performing a ceremony with “Tuem-Sa”.
Having appointed the social and culture position.
• In having the importance culture appointed position in Kachin tribe have no inheriting follows an ancestor but it like learning by the well-informed will teach to who take an interest to study when only have performing a ceremony. Usual time can not teach or learn.
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant:
1. Boonchoo TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader)
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
The way of Kachin culture table
Month
|
Way of living and culture
|
| January | Rest |
| February | Weaving, dying, building a new house |
| March | - |
| April | Arrange apologize ceremony before planting. |
| May | Start planting |
| June | Planting |
| July | Look after the farm |
| August | Look after the product |
| September | Look after the product |
| October | Harvest the product |
| November | Eat new rice |
| December | Offering food to the spirit or ancestor |
Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant:
1. Boonchoo TuaMo2. Kaew (Ka-Kom)
3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader)
4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org
Weaving
Weaving
Weaving or Kachin people have variety; mostly from they observe from the natural or florae such as vegetables, fruits and take it to embroidery.
Embroidery
After weaving finished, they will take the clothes to embroidery many design that they will used the clothes when they rest from a farm.
Dying
Formerly, a color that can dye the cloth is from the nature such as the bark, leaf. The color that want to use can find from the natural “Hma-Ta-La” is the name of a tree that will take to use in dying cloth it have a gray color, “Maigood” tree take the bark comes to use in dying, the olive “Ja-Lun-Pi” will get black by use olive bark that decay then boil. The yellow get from “Uem-Lung”, red color get from “Sa-Nun” that is one kind of a tree which take the bark, brown color takes the tea leaves to boil.
Thread
Thread from cotton “Pa-See” that they grow. Industrial Hemp “Hlee-Ji” comes to make a thread. Now the vegetation is very difficult to seek that they change to buy from the city. In the past they feed silk worm too.
Weaving or Kachin people have variety; mostly from they observe from the natural or florae such as vegetables, fruits and take it to embroidery.
Embroidery
After weaving finished, they will take the clothes to embroidery many design that they will used the clothes when they rest from a farm.
Dying
Formerly, a color that can dye the cloth is from the nature such as the bark, leaf. The color that want to use can find from the natural “Hma-Ta-La” is the name of a tree that will take to use in dying cloth it have a gray color, “Maigood” tree take the bark comes to use in dying, the olive “Ja-Lun-Pi” will get black by use olive bark that decay then boil. The yellow get from “Uem-Lung”, red color get from “Sa-Nun” that is one kind of a tree which take the bark, brown color takes the tea leaves to boil.
Thread
Thread from cotton “Pa-See” that they grow. Industrial Hemp “Hlee-Ji” comes to make a thread. Now the vegetation is very difficult to seek that they change to buy from the city. In the past they feed silk worm too.
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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