What types of wood products are unique to Li nationality?

Li nationality has a long history, and Hainan is rich in wood. Therefore, wood carving has a great influence on the carving technology of Li nationality, mainly the production of single wood and its carving decoration on various wood products. One-wood utensils are the utensils used by Li people for a long time, and they are another physical witness of Li traditional culture for thousands of years.

The unique wood of the Li nationality is to carve and cut various utensils with a log. There are many kinds of unique wood products with exquisite carving patterns and rich connotations, which constitute an important content of Li culture, mainly divided into daily utensils, production tools and religious and cultural utensils.

Household appliances are made of logs by cutting and carving. Household appliances carved by single wood carving are the most common in the Li family, with different shapes. Common rice mortar, wooden barrel, wooden basin, wooden barn, steaming barrel, steaming wine barrel, wooden lid, wooden coffin, wooden trough, etc.

In the history of the Li nationality, there were no rice milling tools, and rice husk was pounded in a wooden mortar with a wooden pestle.

The rice mortar is made of logs, with a straight waist and a round bottom. 0.4m to 0.6m in diameter and 0.4m to 0.8m in height. ..

Similarly, there are single wood products such as Xiao Mu mortar, pepper mortar and single wooden basin, and the method is the same. There are carved patterns on the surface of the wood as decoration. Such as girding, window opening, animal and plant patterns, geometric patterns, pictures of working life, etc. Some of them are painted. Another important wood product is production tools, mainly canoes, wooden sinks, flat rakes, acupuncture sticks, wooden shovels, textile tools, ceramic mats, iron smelting blast boxes, cowbells and so on.