Calendar : Months

The Meaning of Month in the Mien language is Hla. There are 12 months in the Mien calendar and each month is named with numbers, for example the first month, second month etc. There are two different kinds of month – the big month (30 days in a month) and the small month (29 days in a month). Mien knows when the big months or small months are by comparing with the Chinese calendar and in some years, certain months will be repeated within the same year

Mien months. Compare with the international calendar. Thai month. The first is Jee-Hla 1 February The second is Hyuey-Hla 2 March The third is Fah-Hla 3 April The forth is Fuey-Hla 4 May The fifth is Huem-Hla 5 June The sixth is Luey-Hla 6 July The seventh is Chead-Hla 7 August The Eighth is Ped-Hla 8 September The ninth is Jua-Hla 9 October The tenth is Jeab-Hla 10 November The eleventh is Jea-Ead-Hla 11 December The twelfth is Jea-Yuey-Hla 12 January

Month of Mien people do not similar to the Thai calendar like The New Year (Chinese New Year) in 2003 is on 9, February and in 2004 The Chinese New Year is 22 January. In the same month but different year have not the same number of the days. Each month have waxing moon or waning moon only 14 days that month is a small month and have only 29 days in month and also have waxing moon or waning moon 15 days that month has 30 days in a month.

Information: From the book “The Local knowledge of Mien” 

http://mien.hilltribe.org/english/