What are the traditional customs in Hainan?

Hainan Island is rich in folk culture, which has spawned many unique folk festivals.

Flower Festival: On the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, Hainan Qiongshan will hold an annual festival. This is an annual event in Qiongshan City, which has a unique flavor. Flower-changing Festival was once a unique folk festival in Qiongshan with a long history. However, it was changed to incense instead of flowers, which means that it is inexhaustible. Nowadays, the traditional changing fragrance has changed into changing flowers, and the form, scale, scope and area of activities have also expanded year by year, forming a new entertainment that embodies friendship, beauty, happiness and joy.

Junpo Festival: A four-day festival is held in Xinpo Town, Qiongshan City and many places in the province from the 9th to 19th day of the 2nd lunar month. This is a folk commemoration in memory of Mrs. Xian. The third day of the third lunar month is a traditional festival for young Li Men and women to pursue love and happiness.

March 3rd: Both Li and Miao people in Hainan have the custom of celebrating. Hainan International Coconut Festival is held every year in late March or early April (during the third day of the lunar calendar), which is a large-scale tourism and cultural festival integrating tourism, culture, folklore, sports and economy.

Danzhou Folk Song Festival: The Mid-Autumn Festival is Danzhou Folk Song Festival every year. The main activities of the song club are Danzhou folk songs, singing competitions and "enjoying the moon".

Hainan Happy Festival: The "Hainan Happy Festival" is held every year at the end of 1 1.

Marriage custom of ancient Wanzhou: the location of ancient Wanzhou is today's Wanning. The marriage customs in ancient Wanzhou are very particular, and it takes several comparisons from engagement to marriage.

More complicated process:

The first step is "ceremony". Betel nuts must be sent, and all women who are employed by a certain family are called "eating a certain betel nut";

Every second step is "collecting money". This includes giving the woman a silver gift, and writing the birthdays of men and women on red paper. Ask the fortune teller to calculate whether the men and women are "like each other" before they can get engaged.

The third step is to "be clear when choosing auspicious days". That is, choose an auspicious day to get married. When choosing an auspicious day, you also need to send a bride price, which can be gold, silver ornaments, bracelets, money, hunting, wine, rice and so on. The date of marriage is usually proposed by the man. If there is no funeral or major change in the woman's family, it is generally impossible to refuse;

The fourth step is "getting married".

On the wedding day, the groom must pick up the bride in person, and the bride will give a big banquet under the beating and beating of the band. Friends and relatives will come to congratulate her and give money as gifts. When the bride arrives at the groom's house, she will "visit the bride" first, kowtow to the bride three times, knock on the first ceremony, then eat the "river lantern wine" on the table, drink three glasses of wine and enter the bridal chamber at night. The next day, the couple went to the lobby to meet the groom's parents, and on the third day, they called back, that is, the couple visited their parents' house and met their in-laws.

The customs and habits of Hainan are different for every nation.

Li people's "jumping bamboo pole"

It is one of the most local folk dances of Li nationality, also called "playing bamboo dance". During the Spring Festival, Li compatriots will gather in the square in gorgeous national costumes and dance "Bamboo Dance". When jumping bamboo poles, eight bamboo poles and long bamboo poles are arranged in four rows in parallel, the bamboo poles are opened and closed, and the pattern changes with the rhythm of music drums. By 4-8 young men and women with fast or slow rhythm, they jump deftly, tactfully and freely in the crossed bamboo poles. When the bamboo poles are separated, their legs or feet touch the ground skillfully, jump quickly before the bamboo poles are closed, and change the dance steps from time to time to make all kinds of beautiful dance moves. The young men and women who participated in the dance shouted: "Hey-hey-hey!" "

Marriage custom of Li nationality The marriage and love of Li nationality youth is unique. According to the custom of Li nationality, when a girl in the village is sixteen, she must move out of her parents' house and live alone in a boudoir not far from her parents. The boudoir is mostly a thatched room with a big bed inside. The girl living in the boudoir began to fall in love freely. Young men can chat and play in the boudoir at will. The boy a girl likes will stay in the room, and if she doesn't like it, let him leave. After the young man who was liked by the girls experienced free love in the girls' room, his parents formally came to propose marriage. Bring some clothes that girls like to wear and betel nuts when proposing. Betel nut is the most important marriage proposal gift, and you will not be satisfied without your girl. When the formal wedding was held, it was very lively. The bridesmaids and groomsmen sang folk songs, the newlyweds drank the wedding banquet with joy, and there was a "teasing mother" activity. The whole village celebrated by killing sheep.