The Miao are a linguistically and culturally related group of people recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China as one of the 55 official minority groups. The Miao is divided to two parts, one called Raw Miao, living primarily in southeast and northeast of Guizhou Province, northwest of Hunan Province, whose culture hasn’t been affected by Han Chinese’s. This region wasn’t included in Chinese territory until Ming Dynasty. The Ming government resorted to force several times in order to control it. The government even built great wall in South China to limit Miao people’s living area, isolating them from Han Chinese and the other part of Miao people. Until Qing Dynasty, these people began to contact with outside world, did business and exchanged culture.
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