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Traditional pottery-making skills of Li nationality.

In Baotu village in Hainan, you can experience the traditional pottery-making skills of the Li nationality. This technology retains the early Neolithic pottery-making technology in China, and is called "living fossil" in pottery-making technology. Lingao fishing song is a unique folk song form developed by coastal fishermen in Lingao County, Hainan Province.

Li nationality's primitive pottery-making skills have a long history. Archaeological findings show that the primitive pottery-making skills of the Li nationality appeared in Hainan six or seven thousand years ago. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the primitive pottery-making skills of the Li nationality went down in history.

Inheritance and protection of Li nationality's primitive pottery-making skills

Dapo, Shilu Town, Changjiang Li Autonomous County, Hainan Island, still inherits the original pottery-making techniques such as mud slab method, which has important enlightenment for studying the prehistoric pottery-making history. Li nationality retains the original pottery-making forms and features, and truly reproduces the original pottery-making process, which can be called the "living fossil" of ancient China.

With the development of society, the improvement of living standards and the convergence of social culture, porcelain, glassware, metal utensils and plastic utensils have replaced pottery in daily life, and the pottery-making of Li nationality has gradually shrunk, especially during the Cultural Revolution, almost all of them stopped production. There are very few Li artists who know how to make pottery, and the skill of making pottery is on the verge of extinction. It is urgent to take practical measures to ensure its inheritance.