Identifier: shansathomewitht00miln (find matches)
Title: Shans at home. With two chapters on Shan history and literature
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis
Subjects: Shan (Asian people)
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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n-nan no one knows. It seems likelythat the Shans entered the basin of the Irrawaddy bythe valley of the Shwe-li (or Mao), and, after foundingthe Kingdom of Mung-Mao, spread northwards, west-wards, and southwards, and, driving the Burmesesouthwards and westwards, occupied the locality westof the Salween, which they have retained ever since.As to the entrance of the Shans into the valley of theShwe-li river, this seems to be correct, but it is notcertain that the Burmese were the pre-Shan race in the locality west of the Salween, with the singleexception of the valley of the Irrawady. Accordingto the sketch of the Mao-Shans, drawn by Ney Eliasfrom Mao manuscripts no longer available, the Maokingdom—as a separate political entity—appears to M. Terrien de Lacouperie, from his Chinese sources, gives 7>,Mou, and Tstu as tribal names with settlements in Szetchuen. Tihas its modern representative in Mong-// ; MoUj in Mong-mao; andTsm seems to appear in Hso, the Ti(^er race of Hsen-wi.
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MAO LEGEND 17 have begun before the middle of the seventh centuryA.D., or a century later if we follow the Hsen-w^iChronicle. The former authority is more reliable. We must begin the Mao history with a legend—alegend that certainly contains a grain or two ofhistoric truth. It may be briefly told as follows : Inthe year 1274, after the Buddhas Nirvana (aboutA.D. 730), an aged couple lived in Man-se, near theMao. On a day when their son, Hkun-ai, sixteenyears of age, was watching cattle near the lake, he sawa dragon princess. Attracted by mutual love, he waspermitted to follow her to the dragon country. Aftervarious adventures, he returned with his wife, thedragon princess, to his home in Man-se. There, aftersome time, the princess said, I am about to lay anegg, from which a child, begotten by you, will behatched. Nurse him with tender care on milk thatwill ooze from your finger whenever you think of me.Straightway she laid the egg, and returned to thedragon country. Covering the egg

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