Comments: Traditional folk songs are widely sung at Hmong New Year. This style of folk song orginating from the region of XiengKhouang, in Laos. In Green Mong it is known as "lug txaj moob xeev”. Lug txaj/kwv txhiaj will always reference a specific audience in the beginning of the song to note acknowledgement of its listen. Thus, if it was a courting song, this will be replace with "txiv leej tub" or "nam leej ntxhais" to reference the other partner.