What non-heritage culture to experience in Baotu Village

In Baotu Village in Hainan, you can experience the traditional pottery-making skills of the Li people.

The Li, the earliest inhabitants of Hainan Island, speak the Li language, which belongs to the Li branch of the Zhuang-Dong language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Most of the Li people can also speak Chinese, in the past, the Li people do not have their own national script, general Chinese, in 1957 in the party and the government to help create a Latin alphabet-based Li, faith is still in the primitive religious stage.

The Li mainly live in Lingshui, Baoting, Sanya, Ledong, Dongfang, Changjiang, Baisha, Qiongzhong, Wuzhishan and other counties and cities in Hainan Province, while the rest live in Wanning, Danzhou, Tunchang, Qionghai and other counties and cities in Hainan Province as well as in Guizhou and other provinces. According to the China Statistical Yearbook-2021, the number of Li people within China is 1,602,104.

Note:

"Li" is another name, which is the name given to the Li by the Han Chinese. Before the Western Han Dynasty, it used to be "Luo Yue", the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Li", "barbarians", the Sui and Tang dynasties, "Slang",

"Li" as today's Li ethnic group, the first in the late Tang Dynasty, Liu Xun, "Ling table recorded different" book. The book recorded that "Dan, Zhen Yi Li, the sea shore pick (purple shells) for goods". In addition, the New Tang Book - Du You biography of the Tang Dezong years (780-805 years), "Zhu Ya Li Min three insurance does not guest, you to discuss the leveling of the" record.

But the New Book of the Tang Dynasty was written by Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty, and the name "Li" should be the earliest in the record of "The Recorded Discrepancies of the Ling Table". During the Song Dynasty, the name "Li" was commonly used to replace "Slang" and "Bong" in all kinds of historical books, as the exclusive name of the Li people on Hainan Island today.

References: Baidu Encyclopedia - Li People