National Culture of Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County

There are three dialects of Qi, Ha and Sai in Baoting area of Hainan Province, and the languages and customs of each dialect area are also different, but the culture, art and entertainment are basically the same. For thousands of years, the Li people have created rich and colorful material culture and spiritual culture in the long-term practice with nature and social life, which has become a valuable heritage in the treasure house of Chinese culture and art. Folk oral literature includes folk songs, stories, myths, fables, proverbs, riddles, dances, musical arts and tapestries. Folk songs are the most distinctive, including labor songs, love songs, elegies and natural life.

Li folk dances include firewood dance, bowl dance, eight-tone dance, double-knife spirit dance and teasing dance. There are eight kinds of traditional bamboo and wood musical instruments of Li nationality, such as mouth bow, nose flute, Li Lie, acupoint spoon, worship, pa, solo drum and Ding Dong wood. An amateur "eight-tone band" composed of amateurs, that is, a performance team of eight musical instruments: Xiao Gong, Xiao Mugu, Muqin, Zhu Di, Suona, Bronze Bell, Clam and Bida. The state held a wedding, entered the new house and invited eight bands to play all night. It is a historical portrayal of the social civilization and progress of the Li nationality and a masterpiece in the splendid cultural treasure house of the Chinese nation. Hainan Li brocade originated in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties. As early as more than 3,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Li nationality living in Hainan Island had mastered the textile technology, and they were one of the earliest nationalities in China, among which Baoting was one of the cities and counties with the most concentrated brocade in Hainan Province. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the cotton textile industry of Li nationality was quite developed, and the cotton textile technology and cotton textile handicraft industry reached a high level. Especially Huang Daopo, the most outstanding weaver in the history of this period, not only reformed and innovated the textile tools such as seed removal, flower jumping, spinning and weaving, but also applied and popularized the techniques of yarn misplacing, color matching, heald and wadding in Li nationality's textile, and wove vivid patterns. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the development of Li brocade reached its peak, and Li brocade products such as dragon quilts woven by Li nationality became treasures that people scrambled to collect.