What are the traditional festivals and customs of Li nationality?

The traditional festivals of the Li nationality include "March 3rd", "Torch Festival", Spring Festival, New Year Festival, Army Splashing Festival, Ghost Festival, Cow Festival and ancestor worship festival. Customs and habits also attach importance to friendship, advocate courage and justice, and aim at freedom and self-esteem.

First, the traditional festivals of the Li nationality.

1. There are many traditional festivals in the Li nationality, and the Spring Festival is a grand festival for the Li nationality. There are many differences between the Spring Festival of the Han nationality and the Spring Festival of the Li nationality. The Spring Festival of the Li nationality is called celebrating the old year, from New Year's Eve to the fourth day. Lily calls January a year, which is the leisure month of China New Year and the beginning of the year.

2. The 15th day of the first month is the minority year of Li nationality. On this day, there is a rich family dinner, and the whole family gets together to discuss the production activities or things to be done at home in the new year.

3. "March 3rd" and "Torch Festival". March 3rd is the biggest traditional festival of Li nationality. At this time, Li people will spend a lot of time and energy on various celebration activities, such as ancestor worship and lion dance. Torch Festival is a festival for the Li people to celebrate the harvest. At the ceremony, Li Men and the women held torches and sang and danced. The whole celebration was very lively.

4. Li people think that cows are a symbol of wealth and good fortune. There is a "cow soul treasure basin" at home and a cow temple in the village. Every July (Li Li), the Year of the Ox, an evocation ceremony is held. On the day of the Cow Festival, we will build a cowshed, give the cows drinks to keep fit, and gather people to beat gongs and drums and dance happily at night to attract the souls of the cows and wish them a prosperous family. Avoid killing cows every cow day.

Second, the customs and habits of the Li nationality.

1. The customs and habits of the Li nationality are also one of the important manifestations of Li culture. In Li society, people attach importance to the relationship between family and relatives, and this concept permeates the daily life of Li people. Li people attach importance to friendship, advocate courage and justice, and aim at freedom and self-esteem in life. In addition, the Li people worship the Zhao family of Golden Hook, which is also a symbol of Li people's status.

2. The food etiquette of Li nationality in Hainan is very distinctive. Male guests drink before eating, while female guests drink the opposite. The host and the guest sat opposite each other. When the host invites wine, he should raise the wine bowl with both hands to show respect, and then kill it himself. Then, present the rice wine one by one and pay tribute with a bite of meat. But the host usually only drinks with the guests, because he is afraid that the guests will eat too much.

3. In the Li nationality area of Hainan, there is also a reconciliation etiquette called "Cha", which means "Give a good look". If the two sides fight and want to stop fighting and negotiate peace, they need widows as mediators, and representatives of both sides participate. First, the widow threw some copper coins into clear water, and then the representatives of both sides took the copper coins out of the water and wiped each other's eyes to show their sincerity. Finally, toast each other to reach a settlement.

4. Before planting early rice around the vernal equinox in February of the lunar calendar and late rice around beginning of autumn in July, sowing etiquette must be carried out, and twigs with green leaves must be picked and hung on the doorstep; Wood's wife put on new clothes and skirts and planted 100 seedlings, leaves and rattan leaves in the corner of the field to show the ownership of the rice god. On the first day of transplanting rice seedlings, don't lie in bed or talk to others during the day, because this will affect the speed of transplanting rice seedlings for women, and leak the news, which is not conducive to grain growth.

The ethnic origin of Li nationality:

There were many different views on the origin of the Li nationality in the past. After the founding of New China, Chinese scholars, according to literature records, combined with a large number of archaeological, linguistic and ethnological materials and previous research results, mostly believe that the Li nationality developed from the Guyue nationality, especially Luoyue, a branch of Baiyue.

Since the 1950s, a large number of Neolithic cultural sites have been discovered in Li inhabited areas in Hainan. From the analysis of the cultural nature of the unearthed cultural relics, it should belong to the same cultural system as the Neolithic culture with distinctive Baiyue cultural characteristics found in Guangdong and southeast coastal areas, especially more similar to the primitive cultural remains found in Qinzhou, Guangxi and Zhanjiang, Guangdong. In addition, as an important feature of Baiyue culture, bronze drums were unearthed in Hainan Island after the Ming Dynasty.

After the founding of New China, many bronze drums were also found in Li areas, and their shapes were basically the same as those found in Guangxi. From the linguistic point of view, Li language belongs to the Zhuang-Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family, along with Zhuang, Buyi, Dong, Shui and Dai languages originating from the ancient Yue nationality. From the aspects of pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary, Li language is closely related to Zhuang, Buyi, Dong, Shui and Dai nationalities.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Li Nationality