mường

Thân thiện

Một ngôi mường nhỏ nằm yên bình giữa những ngọn đồi xanh.

Definition

1. Proper Noun:
   • The Mường (people): The name of one of the 54 officially recognized ethnic groups in Vietnam. They are an indigenous group primarily residing in the mountainous and midland regions of northern Vietnam.
   • The Mường language: The language spoken by the Mường people, belonging to the Vietic branch of the Austroasiatic language family.

Usage Examples

• Proper Noun (Ethnic Group):
  • The Mường have a rich cultural heritage. (Người Mường có một di sản văn hóa phong phú.)
  • This traditional costume belongs to the Mường people. (Trang phục truyền thống này thuộc về người Mường.)
• Proper Noun (Language):
  • She is conducting research on the Mường language. (Cô ấy đang tiến hành nghiên cứu về tiếng Mường.)
  • Some words in Vietnamese have roots in Mường. (Một số từ trong tiếng Việt có gốc từ tiếng Mường.)

Advanced Usage

• "Mường ethnic group" / "Mường ethnicity": A more formal or descriptive term used in anthropological or official contexts.
  • The Mường ethnic group has a population of over one million. (Dân tộc Mường có dân số hơn một triệu người.)
• "Mường community": Refers to the collective group of Mường people living in a specific area or as a social unit.
  • The festival is an important event for the local Mường community. (Lễ hội là một sự kiện quan trọng đối với cộng đồng người Mường địa phương.)
• "Mường culture": Refers to the distinct cultural practices, beliefs, arts, and social norms of the Mường people.
  • Preserving Mường culture is a priority. (Bảo tồn văn hóa Mường là một ưu tiên.)

Variants and Related Words

• Mường (as an adjective): When used attributively to describe nouns related to this group.
  • Mường music (âm nhạc Mường), Mường village (bản Mường), Mường script (chữ viết Mường).
• Người Mường: The Vietnamese term for "Mường people".
• Tiếng Mường: The Vietnamese term for "the Mường language".

Synonyms

• Ethnic minority group (in the context of Vietnam): Nhóm dân tộc thiểu số.
  • The Mường are one of Vietnam's largest ethnic minority groups. (Người Mường là một trong những nhóm dân tộc thiểu số lớn nhất của Việt Nam.)

Related Phrases and Cultural Concepts

• Bản Mường: Refers to a traditional Mường village or the traditional socio-political territory of the Mường people.
  • He returned to his ancestral bản Mường. (Anh ấy trở về bản Mường tổ tiên của mình.)
• Khua Luống (Pestle Percussion): A unique traditional musical performance of the Mường people using wooden mortars and pestles as instruments.
  • Khua Luống is a fascinating part of Mường performing arts. (Khua Luống là một phần hấp dẫn của nghệ thuật biểu diễn Mường.)

Học thuật

1. dân tộc Mường
2. With about 800,000 inhabitants, Mường ethnic group occupies 1.3% of the Vietnamese population. The Mường people's residential sphere set up an arc between the Vietnamese from Vĩnh Phú to west of Hoà Bình, then to midlands of Nghệ An and Thanh Hoá. They belong to Việt-Mường linguistic group, but their culture is closer to Thái ethnic group. They live on growing rice, breeding, forging. Their residential area houses Hoà Bình Culture of the neolithic era along with which rice-growing appeared over 8,000 years BC Khua Luong ("Beating the mortar" in the Mường dialect) is a game played with wooden instruments by the Mường ethnic group, who settled in northern Vietnam in the early days of the nation's historỵThe instruments of this game consist simply of mortars and pestles, all made of wood Mortars and pestles are very familiar items of use in the life of the Mường community. They are used to husk rice before it is cooked, or to crush lean meat to make giò, bánh giày, and so on. Thus the sound of the pestle and mortar is very familiar to the Mường women. Gradually, it came to be used as a musical instrument producing familiar sounds and rhythms. Through generations, this musical instrument has known many refinements and finally was used as an instrument for a concert by both young people and the old people in the village. This musical instrument dates back many thousands of years and has been preserved to date as a precious tradition among the Mường ethnic group. It might have come into existence long before the Việt community knew how to melt copper to make bronze drums and bronze bells for musical instruments.=Nowadays, among the Mường community at Thường Xuân, Thanh Hoá+province, there exist many Khua luong teams each comprising six to eight young girls. They can play up to 12 traditional concerts reflecting the landscape and the atmosphere of the Bản Mường (Mường villages)as well as the feelings of the people there. The most typical of the concerts are those depicting "a wedding party in the village", a scene of " Welcoming Guests", of "Waiting for the Bride" and of the wedding ceremony itself. In the "Welcoming Guests" item, a merry atmosphere is created through the sounds of pestle and mortar as the people busy themselves with husking rice and making cake to entertain the guests. In the "Waiting for the Bride" concert, there reigns an atmosphere of impatient longing for the bride. In the "Wedding Party", the stately sounds help people to get rid of the noisy crowd and enter a world of quiet felicity as the bride and groom gather under the cosy roof of their new house. Besides the four main concerts, there are some others such as "Welcoming New Rice", the "Early Rains", "Hymn to the Genie of Thunder". It is hard to imagine the perfection of the sounds and music unless you attend one of the ceremonies where khua luong concerts are performed. The music leaves a deep impression on the audience and, at times, tugs at the heartstrings