How do modern Li and Miao people celebrate March 3?

March 3 is a traditional folk festival of Li nationality in Hainan province, which is held on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year. It is a traditional festival for Li people in Hainan to mourn their hardworking and brave ancestors and express their yearning for love and happiness. It is one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

Since ancient times, every year on the third day of the third lunar month, Li people have gathered together from all directions in festive costumes, carrying baskets of rice wine and fragrant rice in bamboo tubes.

Or worship ancestors, or groups of three or five, singing and dancing, playing percussion instruments, and celebrating the festival.

Young men and women even revel in festivals, make friends with songs, express their feelings with dances, immerse themselves in happy love until dawn, and will bid farewell to reunion on March 3 next year.

Li nationality has a very broad mass base on March 3rd. With the changes of the times, the contents of the celebration are increasingly diverse, but performing songs, folk sports competitions, national songs and dances, wedding customs and so on are still the most basic contents.