1, March 3 Festival
Li March 3 Festival (the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar) is the Li people in Hainan Province, the grandest folk festival, but also the beautiful day of Li youth, also known as the love plot, talk about love day, the Li said "Fu Nianfu", held annually on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is a tribute to the Li people in Hainan. Hard-working and courageous ancestors to express their feelings of love and happiness of the traditional festival.
On May 20, 2006, the Li March 3 Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list (category: folklore).
2, Lantern Festival
According to Hainan provincial folklore experts, the "Festival of Changing Flowers" originated from the "Festival of Changing Fragrance", and the late Tang Dynasty has been the Lantern Festival Lantern Lanterns, Changing Fragrance activities. "Changing incense" implies that the local people to exchange incense, there is a change of auspicious auspicious, rich and prosperous meaning of the Ding.
Later for the festival security considerations, in 1984, Fucheng folk "for incense" custom changed to "for flowers", "for flowers" gradually became the main Lantern Festival activities, and evolved into the young people in pursuit of love. activities, and evolved into a new custom of young people in pursuit of love.
Changing Flowers Festival was originally a unique folk festival in the city, with a long history, said to have originated in the Tang Dynasty. However, once upon a time, it was the incense that was changed, not the flowers, which was meant to be an uninterrupted flow of incense. Hainan province after the establishment of the Special Administrative Region, the traditional exchange of incense into a new wave of flowers, the scale of activities, the scope, the region to expand year by year, the formation of a cohesion of friendship, good, happy, cheerful as one of the new forms of entertainment.
3, Hainan International Coconut Festival
Haikou has a "Coconut Street" and the opening of the Coconut Lantern Festival; in the hometown of coconut Wenchang County to taste fresh coconuts; in the city of Tongshi, the Li and Miao will have their grand carnival "March 3", you can see the Li and Miao people's wedding and ancestor ceremony; Sanya has an "International Dragon Boat Race" and "International Dragon Boat Festival" and "International Dragon Boat Festival". Sanya has the "International Dragon Boat Race" and "Folk Martial Arts Competition".
Festival Tour Schedule Afternoon Sanya International Hotel concentration, live in the International Hotel. Attend the opening ceremony, visit Coconut Street and watch the lantern display in Coconut City. Stay at the International Hotel. Taste coconuts at Wenchang, Coconut County, participate in the March 3 Li and Hmong Tonshi City Reunion and Wedding Ceremony, as well as offer sacrifices to ancestors.
4, Hainan Spring Festival customs are generally similar to the mainland. New Year's Eve stick couplets and so on, the first day of dawn, burning incense, firecrackers, in the ancestral hall set up rice cakes, dumplings, open the door to welcome the New Year. After getting up in the morning and washing up, both men and women should put on new clothes, shoes must be clean and well-dressed, and those who meet them say auspicious blessings. On that day, it is taboo to sweep the floor, draw water, prohibit moving needles and scissors, prohibit dumping of filth, prohibit buying things, drinking Tu Su wine, making lettuce, spring plate, festival cake, family reunion meal, prohibited from going out of the house, the evening of the same day onwards, it is necessary to set up fruits in the ancestral hall until the night of the New Year's Lantern.
After welcoming the New Year early in the morning, it is time to pay homage to the New Year. The opening of the door is followed by the New Year worship. Early in the morning, daughters who are married off go back to their mother's house to pay homage to the New Year with a big tray of rice cakes, and if the daughter is married in the same year, she has to have more rice cakes. After paying homage to the ancestors, all the rice cakes are distributed to the neighbors, and then the elders lead their families to go out to visit friends and relatives, who bring gifts to celebrate and give children New Year's money. During the Spring Festival, local activities are also held, with dragon dances all over the streets, as well as customs such as tuning sounds and worshiping temples. When it comes to worshipping the gods, they are usually worshipped in the temple.
5, Wanning Wen Lantern Festival
In Wanning City, put Wen Lantern is prevalent for a long time folk entertainment customs, in the Xinglong scenic area, all festivals, celebrations or large-scale activities, there is the custom of releasing the lanterns of the Kongming Lantern, to beg for blessings. In the first Chinese Youth Joy Festival and the fifth Hainan Island Joy Festival this special festival, Wanning Xinglong tourist area into a heavenly light market, in Xinglong Kangle Cultural Square, people gathered together *** release the lanterns, let fly wishes.
Wanning Wen Lantern Festival is one of the highlights of the festival. This year's Wen Lantern Festival activities highlight the "youth joy joy, Wanning Wen Lantern presented auspicious" theme, the rich culture of Hainan Wen Lantern, Li-Miao culture, Wanzhou food culture, hot springs culture and in the Xinglong area of the 21 countries returned overseas Chinese exotic culture, flavor of the intermingling of each other.
Related content introduction:
Hainan Province is located in the southernmost tip of mainland China, north of the Qiongzhou Strait and Guangdong Province boundaries, west of the Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnam relative to the South China Sea, east of the South China Sea and Taiwan Province, southeast and south of the South China Sea with the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia as neighbors. The jurisdiction of Hainan Province includes Hainan Island and the islands and reefs of Xisha Islands, Nansha Islands and Zhongsha Islands and their sea areas. Hainan Province, the province's total land area of 35,000 square kilometers, the sea area of about 2 million square kilometers, of which Hainan Island area of 33,900 square kilometers.
Hainan Island is located in the northern edge of the tropics, is a tropical monsoon climate, has always been known as the "natural greenhouse" of the beauty of the long summer here, no winter, the average annual temperature of 22 ~ 27 ℃, greater than or equal to 10 ℃ of the cumulative temperature of 8200 ℃, the coldest month of January temperature is still up to 17 ~ 24 ℃, the annual light of 1750 ~ 2650 The annual light is 1750～2650 hours, the light rate is 50%～60%, the light temperature is sufficient, the photosynthetic potential is high. Hainan Island early spring, warming fast, large daily temperature difference, no frost throughout the year, warm winter, rice can be three ripe, full of vegetables in four seasons, is China's ideal base for southern breeding breeding.