The Li people live on Hainan Island. Almost all of them can sing and dance, regardless of gender. There are two forms of Li folk songs: those sung in the Li language and those sung in the Hainanese dialect.
The old traditional folk songs sung in the Li language are mostly 5-syllable lines, with no fixed number of lines in each song, and 4 lines in a minor key. There is a certain meter, and the songs are sung in solo or duet form.
The folk songs sung in the Hainan dialect are generally seven lines, four lines a song, known as the "four lines of song", and long poems with four lines as a unit. The songs are sung in a variety of forms, including solo and duet, as well as in unison, in rounds, in chorus, and with instrumental accompaniment.
Li songs have a set of beautiful tunes, similar to singing, such as "Luo Li tune", "Xiaoman tune", "Qianjia tune" and so on. Singing occasions are generally in the wedding banquet, but also in the "put Liu" or "March 3" party, many are in the labor.
Li folk songs are mainly love songs, such as the "Anti-marriage Song", but also labor songs, such as "Pounding Rice Ballad", and lamentation songs and nursery rhymes.