PeopleLisu, Lahu, Hmong and Lua
ลีซู ลาหู่ ม้ง และลัวะ
Four of the seven groups that make up most of the province, and the growers of much of the coffee you drink on the way round.
DEBA PRASAD ROY · CC0 1.0What it is
Mae Hong Son's population is mostly not Thai. Seven named groups make up 63 per cent of it, and these are four of them.
The long version
The Wikipedia article on the province is specific: seven groups make up 63 per cent of the provincial population — Karen, Lahu, Lisu, Lua, Miao, Chinese Yunnanese and Pa-O. Lahu, Lisu and Lua have their own spoken languages and write them in Latin script.
Inference — for a rider this is not background. The villages on the higher ground either side of 1095 and 1263 are these communities, the coffee sold at the top of most climbs is grown by these families, and the produce on the morning market tables came down from their fields that morning.
Inference — the useful thing to carry is that a village is somewhere people live and work, not a feature of the route. Slow down through them, and buy something — the coffee, the fruit, the woven thing — because a transaction is a better way to meet somebody than a photograph is.
Runs with
- personThe Karen — The largest of the hill groups here.
- personThe Shan — The majority in the valleys.
- coffeeArabica off the ridge you just rode over — What many of these families grow.
- dishThe morning market — Where their fields arrive every morning.
Named here by
- coffeeMiang and mountain tea — Among the families farming these gardens.
- eventThe Akha Swing Festival — The groups who ARE here.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Mae Hong Son province — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Mae Hong Son province — Wikipedia (en)
- Lahu people — Wikipedia (en)
- Lisu people — Wikipedia (en)
- Hmong people — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there