San Diego Hmong Language Project

Kindness for this year, our parents and friend, as the old year will be over soon. It will make the birds of soul sadness and, crying for the new year incoming, to tell the young lady to prepare new cloth, as it is sad that the old year will be disappear soon, it make the birds of soul sadness and jump up to sing a song to let the young lady to prepare a cloth to wear on it for the incoming new year.

Also warn the young gentlemen to prepare wine and water to be ready to go give the old parents for good luck towards the incoming new year. Our good sons are ready with a full hand of water and wine to go gather good luck from the head of household. Our good sons shall bring it the new year place to the middle in the valley and invite greats leader to setting down to the place over the time. Our great sons bring happiness and celebration, our sons will bring it the new year table.

Let the great parents set and our sons kneel to pray for the good luck. Our great leaders are willing to taste the offered food, that it was the time to tell our son to give back, and when our great leader tastes the food with wine and water, soon our great leaders will wish our son to return back with happiness, that is because our Hmong people have the new year to celebrate.

Our great grandparents set it up as our new year cerebrations, and will give us the silver shiny decoration to wear, so it will be our acknowledgement of the gathering.

Because all family have the new year to celebrate, our parents will give us clothing to wear with the necklace so it could be an opportunity of us to father like herd at the field meeting each other.

It is sad because the bird does not have a new year to celebrate, they will just fly to find worms and grass to eat, they will sing a song over the forest. As it is because the animal does not have new year to celebrate, they will searching the worm and bug to catching, they will sing a song over the valley, because our people have already celebration the new year.

The old are already passed by and all parents have already prepared the old tools to sharpen so they can harvest the rice fields, our sons who are ready to go school will be prepare stuff in their bags and head out to the town study.

The parents already indulge in the new year, now they have sharpen the gardening tool to shine, all sons who are going to school will prepare a good knowledge to get ready to study, may our sons get the good grades to return with happiness.

The old year is coming to end.