Changing Flowers Festival: Every evening on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the city of Qiongshan, Hainan, will be held once a year with a unique flavor. Qiongshan City is a unique annual flavor of the big event, the original flower festival is unique to Qiongshan folk festival, a long history, but before the change is incense, not flowers, meant to incense unceasingly, and now the traditional change of incense into a change of flowers, the form of its activities, scale, scope, area is also expanding year by year, the formation of cohesion of friendship, good, happy, joyful as a whole of the new entertainment.
Junpo Festival: Every year, the ninth to nineteenth of the second month of the lunar calendar, Qiongshan City, Xinpo Town and many places in the province, held a four-day. This is to commemorate Mrs. Xian and folk worship activities. The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year is the Li young men and women in pursuit of love and happiness of the traditional festival.
March 3: Hainan Li and Miao have the custom of celebrating. Every year in late March or early April (the lunar calendar "March 3" period) are held in Hainan International Coconut Festival, which is a combination of tourism, culture, folklore, sports, economic and trade in one of the large-scale tourism and cultural festivals.
Danzhou Folk Song Festival: Every year in the mid-autumn Danzhou Folk Song Festival. Song Festival's main activities are Danzhou mountain song, tune the sound of the song contest and "moon" and other projects.
Hainan Joy Festival: held in late November each year, "Hainan Joy Festival".
Gu Wanzhou marriage customs: Gu Wanzhou location is today's Wanning. Ancient Wanzhou marriage customs are very delicate, from the booking to the marriage to experience a few more complex process:
The first step is "fixed gift". Must send betel nut, where a woman is hired by a family is called "eat a betel nut";
Every two steps is "money". This includes sending gifts of silver dollars to the woman, at the same time, will be men and women's birthdates written on red paper, please fortune tellers first projected, men and women are "mutually exclusive" such as not mutually exclusive, can be engaged,
The third step is to "choose the auspicious Qing period". The third step is to "choose the auspicious day to get married". At the time of choosing auspicious, also need to send bride price to the woman, can send gold, silver jewelry, bracelets, money, can also send 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, she generally can not be refused;
The fourth step is the "marriage".
The day of the wedding, the groom must personally come to pick up the bride, the bride sat on the eight large flowers Jiao, and invited the band to hold a big feast, friends and relatives to congratulate, and send money for gifts, the bride to the groom's home, the first "worship", worship line three kneeling and nine kowtow rite of passage, and then ate on the "Hedeng wine", drink three cups of wine on the line to the night into the bridal chamber. The next day the couple both to the hall to see the groom's parents, the third day "back to the door", that is, the new couple visited the mother's home, see the parents-in-law
Hainan's customs and habits of each ethnic group are different,
Li "jumping bamboo"
Li is one of the most rich in local flavor of folk dance, also known as "playing bamboo dance", also known as the "dance of the bamboo", "the bamboo dance" is one of the most important part of the folk dance. It is also called the "Bamboo Dance". Every New Year's Eve, Li compatriots will be dressed in colorful national costumes, gathered in the square, jumping "beat bamboo dance" to jump bamboo poles, 8 with the long bamboo poles parallel to the discharge of four rows of bamboo poles, bamboo poles open and close, along with the rhythm of the music and drums, and constantly changing the pattern. By 4-8 young men and women with a fast or slow rhythm, in the cross of the bamboo poles, dexterity, resourcefulness, free jumping, when the bamboo poles apart, legs or a single foot landing skillfully, not waiting for the bamboo poles together and then jump up quickly, and from time to time to change the dance steps to make a variety of beautiful dance movements, to participate in the dance of the young men and women, dancing while shouting out loud from small voice to loud voice: "hey - hey, hey - hey", "hey - hey, hey - hey, hey".
Li marriage customs Li youth marriage is unique, in accordance with the Li custom, the village girl to the age of sixteen, will be moved out of the parents' housing, live alone in the boudoir not far from the parents. The boudoir is mostly thatched, with a big bed inside. Live in the boudoir of the girl will begin to free love. The young man can be free to the boudoir word folk girl chat, play, the girl likes on the young man will stay in the room, do not like to let him leave. By the girl by like on the young man by the boudoir of free love, by the parents of the official door to propose marriage. When proposing marriage, the parents will bring along some of the girl's favorite clothes and betel nut. The betel nut is the most important gift for the marriage proposal, and the girl's family will not be satisfied if you bring less. When the wedding is officially held, it will be very lively, with bridesmaids and groomsmen singing songs, newlyweds drinking happy wine amidst the sound of joy, and the activity of "teasing the bride", in which the whole village kills and slaughters goats and sheep to celebrate together.