What are the costumes and materials of Li nationality in Hainan?

Li nationality is the most important nationality in Hainan, and its costumes are very distinctive, mainly made of sea island cotton, hemp, kapok, bark fiber and silk. In some places in ancient times, the bark of Broussonetia papyrifera or blood-sealed throat tree was used as clothing.

This kind of cloth is made by cutting the bark from the mountain, pulping to remove the skin residue, leaving a fiber layer, then soaking it in the ash burned by snail shells and drying it in the sun. Clothes, quilts, hats, etc. The clothes sewn by Li's ancestors with this bark fiber are called "bark cloth".

Most Li costumes are self-spun, self-woven, self-dyed and self-stitched, and their dyes are mainly collected from Shan Ye, supplemented by minerals.