Life style : The way of Mien living

Month	The way of living	Culture, Traditional, Ceremony.
January	Take a relax from they work and welcome Chinese New Year of Mien people by collect the firewood, vegetable from the forest for Chinese New Years cerebration.	Offering food to the ghost who take care they family troughs the fields like offering food to ancestor, offering food to the ghost who take care the forest, mountains, etc.
February	This Month is a New Year for the Mien people. This day Miens people rest from their work and start New Years cerebrate.	Peatfast cerebration. This cerebrate usually have in the importance day such as Chinese New Year or in a big ceremony.
March	This month is the season of the people who make a broom from the some kind of grasses and prepare the equipment like knife, axe for mow the area for farming.	Ceremonial to asked the permission from the spiritual who take care the area for mow the grasses to make a farming.
April	This time, the villager prepares the area and mows the grasses for planting and makes a line to protect the wildfire.	This ceremonial is give offering food to the spirituals that protect the village.
May	Planting, Usually they have a paddy field, corn and vegetables. This time the people will grow the plants by scatter the seeds because this month is a rainy season (for paddy usually after 7 day it will grow)	When paddy in the field breakdown. The people in the village will have a vow the spiritual to protect the rice in the field, when they harvest finish, the people in the village will give offering food by kill pig or anything to offering the spiritual.
June	Paddy grows and the people withdraw and mow the grasses in the paddy field also.
July	Find the vegetables from the forest like bamboo shoot, mushroom etc.	This is the New Years of the spiritual. The entire spiritual will have a cerebration.
August	This time is a rainy season; The paddy and the entire thing that they plant are growing. The villager takes care all carefully and will take in this time also.	Usually in the village will have 4 time in the year to give offering food for an ancestor.
September	Collect bamboo worms and pupa to make a food and the paddy ready to harvest.	-
October	Harvest the plant from the field like corn, paddy and other thing.	Eat New rice from the farm that they harvest.
November	This month the people harvest gramineous to make a roof when they building the houses.
December	Building the house and fixing. For the women will saw clothes for the New Years cerebration.	This time is a favor to have a wedding ceremony.

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