What are the traditional folk customs in Hainan during the Spring Festival?

March 3 (the third day of the third lunar month) is the largest traditional folk festival of Li nationality in Hainan province, and it is also a beautiful day for Li youth. Also called love plot and love day, it is called "Fu Nian Fu" in Li language. Held on the third day of the third lunar month every year, it is a traditional festival for the Li people in Hainan to mourn their hardworking and brave ancestors and express their yearning for love and happiness.

On May 20th, 2006, March 3rd Festival of Li Nationality was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list (category: folk custom).

2. Lantern Festival

According to folklore experts in Hainan Province, "Flower Exchange Festival" originated from "Fragrance Exchange Festival". At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were activities to decorate lanterns and change incense. "Changing incense" means that local people exchange incense, which means changing Jina incense and making a fortune.

Later, for the sake of festival safety, 1984, the folk custom of "changing fragrance" in Fucheng was changed to "changing flowers", which gradually became the main activity for people to have fun during the Lantern Festival and evolved into a new custom for young people to pursue love.

Flower Festival was originally a unique folk festival in Fucheng, with a long history. It is said that it originated in the Tang Dynasty. However, the past is a fragrance, not a flower, which means that the fragrance is inexhaustible. After the establishment of the Special Zone in Hainan Province, the traditional incense party has become a trendy flower party, and the scale, scope and area of activities have expanded year by year, forming a new form of entertainment that integrates friendship, beauty, happiness and celebration.

Hainan International Coconut Festival

Haikou has "Coconut Street" and holds a coconut lantern festival. Taste delicious coconuts in Wenchang County, the hometown of coconuts; In Tongshi, Li and Miao will celebrate their grand carnival "March 3", and we can see the wedding customs and ancestor worship ceremony of Li and Miao. Sanya has "International Dragon Boat Race" and "Folk Wushu Competition". ?

In the afternoon, Sanya International Hotel will stay in international hotels. Attend the opening ceremony, visit Coconut Street and watch the lantern show in Coconut Market. Stay in an international hotel. Go to Wenchang, Coconut County to taste coconuts, and on March 3rd, attend the get-together, wedding and ancestor worship of Tongshi, Li and Miao nationalities.

The custom of Spring Festival in Hainan is similar to that in the mainland. Put up couplets on New Year's Eve, burn incense at the dawn of the first day, set off firecrackers, put rice cakes in the ancestral hall, wrap jiaozi, and open the door to welcome the new year. After getting up and washing in the morning, both men and women should put on new clothes, their shoes must be clean and neatly dressed, and everyone they meet says auspicious wishes. On that day, it is forbidden to sweep the floor, fetch water, move needles and scissors, pour dirt, buy things, drink Tu Su wine, make lettuce, spring vegetables, cakes and have a reunion dinner. No going out of town. From that night on, you must decorate fruits in the ancestral hall until the Lantern Festival.

In the morning, a new year is ushered in, followed by a new year. Let go of the opening gun and celebrate the New Year. Early in the morning, the married daughter returned to her parents' home with a big plate of rice cakes to pay New Year's greetings. If my daughter gets married that year, she will eat more rice cakes. After ancestor worship, all the rice cakes are distributed to neighbors, and then the elders lead their families out to visit relatives and friends. Relatives and friends bring gifts to celebrate and give lucky money to their children. During the Spring Festival, local activities will also be held, with dragon dances all over the streets and alleys, as well as customs such as voice adjustment and temple worship. When you go to worship God, you usually worship in the temple.

5. Wanning Lantern Festival

In Wanning, putting lanterns on lanterns is a popular folk entertainment custom for a long time. In Xinglong Scenic Area, whenever there are festivals, celebrations or large-scale activities, there is a custom of putting lanterns on lanterns to pray for blessings. In the first China Youth Happy Festival and the fifth Hainan Island Happy Festival, Wanning Xinglong Tourist Area has become a lantern market in the sky. In Xinglong Cultural and Entertainment Square, people gather together, put lanterns and let go of their wishes.

Wanning Lantern Festival is one of the highlights of Happy Festival. This Lantern Festival highlights the theme of "Happy Youth, Lucky Wanning Lantern Festival", and integrates the rich Hainan Lantern Festival culture, Li Miao culture, Wanzhou food culture and hot spring culture with the exotic culture and customs of returned overseas Chinese in Xinglong area.

Related content introduction:

Hainan Province is located at the southernmost tip of Chinese mainland, bounded by Qiongzhou Strait in the north, facing Vietnam across the sea in the Beibu Gulf in the west, facing Taiwan Province Province in the South China Sea in the east, and bordering the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia in the South China Sea in the southeast and south. The jurisdiction of Hainan Province includes the islands and reefs of Hainan Island, Xisha Islands, Nansha Islands and Zhongsha Islands and their sea areas. Hainan Province has a total land area of 35,000 square kilometers and a sea area of about 2 million square kilometers, of which Hainan Island covers an area of 33,900 square kilometers.

Hainan Island is located in the northern edge of the tropics and belongs to the tropical monsoon climate. It has always been known as a "natural greenhouse". Summer is long without winter, the annual average temperature is 22~27℃, and the accumulated temperature greater than or equal to 10℃ is 8200℃. The coldest temperature in January still reaches 17 ~ 24℃, and the annual illumination is 1750. Hainan Island is an ideal breeding base in South China because of its early spring, rapid temperature rise, large daily temperature difference, frost-free all year round and warm winter.