Hainan Island has rich folk culture and has spawned many unique folk festivals.
Flower Changing Festival: Every evening on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, an annual unique flower festival will be held in Qiongshan City, Hainan. It is an annual grand event with unique flavor in Qiongshan Fucheng. The Flower Changing Festival was originally a unique folk festival in Qiongshan with a long history. However, in the past, incense was exchanged instead of flowers, which was intended to keep the incense flowing. Nowadays, the traditional Changing incense has become changing flowers, and the form, scale, scope, and area of ??its activities have also expanded year by year, forming a new entertainment that embodies friendship, beauty, happiness, and joy.
Junpo Festival: A four-day festival is held every year from the ninth to the nineteenth of the second lunar month in Xinpo Town, Qiongshan City and many places across the province. This is a folk worship activity held in memory of Mrs. Xian. Every year on the third day of the third lunar month, it is a traditional festival for young men and women of the Li ethnic group to pursue love and happiness.
March 3: Hainan Li and Miao people have the custom of celebrating. The Hainan International Coconut Festival is held every year in late March or early April (during the "March 3rd" period of the lunar calendar). It is a large-scale tourism and cultural festival that integrates tourism, culture, folk customs, sports, and economy and trade.
Danzhou Folk Song Festival: Every Mid-Autumn Festival is the Danzhou Folk Song Festival. The main activities of the Song Festival include Danzhou folk songs, singing competitions and "moon appreciation".
Hainan Happy Festival: The "Hainan Happy Festival" is held in late November every year.
Marriage customs in ancient Wanzhou: The location of ancient Wanzhou is today’s Wanning. Marriage customs in ancient Wanzhou are very particular. From engagement to marriage, there are several relatively complicated processes:
The first step is "the ceremony". Betel nut must be given as a gift. Whenever a woman is employed by a certain family, it is called "eating a certain betel nut";
Every second step is to "pay coins". This includes sending silver dollar gifts to the woman, and at the same time, writing the birth dates of the man and woman on red paper, and asking a fortune teller to calculate whether the man and woman are "compatible" with each other. If not, they can get engaged.
The third step It is "choosing auspicious Qing Dynasty". That means choosing an auspicious day to get married. When choosing auspiciousness, you also need to give betrothal gifts to the woman. You can give gold and silver jewelry, bracelets, money and gifts, as well as hunting, wine, rice, etc. The wedding date is usually proposed by the man. If there is no funeral or major change in the woman's family, she generally cannot refuse;
The fourth step is "getting married".
On the day of the wedding, the groom must come to pick up the bride in person. The bride sits on an eight-carriage carriage and invites a band to play and play music to hold a banquet. Relatives and friends come to congratulate and give money as gifts. When the bride arrives, the groom After returning home, first "go to the church", kneel down three times and kowtow nine times, and then eat "Hedeng wine" at the church. Just drink three glasses of wine, and then enter the bridal chamber at night. On the second day, the couple went to the lobby to meet the groom's parents, and on the third day, they "returned home", that is, the new couple visited their parents' home to meet their father-in-law and mother-in-law
The customs and habits of Hainan are different for each ethnic group.
"Bamboo pole dancing" of the Li ethnic group
It is one of the most local folk dances of the Li ethnic group and is also called the "bamboo dance". During every New Year and festival, the Li people, dressed in colorful national costumes, gather in the square and dance the "Bamboo Dance". When dancing with bamboo poles, eight long bamboo poles are arranged in four rows in parallel. The patterns are constantly changing to the rhythm of the music drums. 4-8 young men and women jump dexterously, intelligently and freely among the crossed bamboo poles in a fast or slow rhythm. When the bamboo poles are separated, they land skillfully with both legs or one foot, and then quickly jump again before the bamboo poles are closed. Jump up and change the steps from time to time to perform various graceful dance movements. The young men and women participating in the dance shouted from softly to loudly: "Hey--hey, hey--hey" while dancing, which greatly added to the excitement. atmosphere.
The marriage customs of the Li ethnic minority are unique in the marriage and love of young people of the Li ethnic group. According to Li ethnic customs, when a girl in the village reaches the age of sixteen, she must move out of her parents' house and live alone in a boudoir not far from her parents. The boudoir is mostly a thatched room with a large bed inside. The girl who lives in the boudoir begins free love. Young men can go to the boudoir to chat and play with folk girls at will. If the girl likes a boy, she can stay in the room. If she doesn't like him, she can let him leave. After a young man who is attracted by a girl has a free love relationship in the maid's room, his parents formally come to propose marriage. When proposing marriage, you should bring some clothes and betel nuts that the girl likes to wear. Betel nut is the most important gift for marriage proposal. Without it, the girl’s family will be dissatisfied.
When the wedding was officially held, it was very lively. There were folk songs by the bridesmaids and groomsmen, and the newlyweds drank happy wine amidst the joy. There was also a "mother tease" activity, and the whole village killed and slaughtered sheep to celebrate together