Jumping Chai Song from Hainan. "Jumping Chai Song" is a Li song is a folk song of Hainan, Hainan Li folk song "Jumping Chai Song", this song can not only sing, and can add some energetic movements. The Li people like to perform an activity called "jumping bamboo poles" during festivals.
Jumping bamboo poles is an ancient activity that is not only beautiful but also rhythmic. During the New Year festivals, the Li people dressed in colorful costumes, gathered in the square, jumped on the bamboo stick dance and with the "jumping Chai song".
? Li Folk Songs
Folk songs play an important role in daily life, almost all men, women and children know how to sing them, especially on happy days, singing is an essential recreational activity. They are also sung in the course of daily production and labor. The content of folk songs is mostly love songs, such as "Anti-marriage Song", which is a long narrative song. There are also labor songs, wedding songs, festival songs, "do ghost" songs.
The Li folk songs are divided into traditional ancient folk songs sung in Li language and folk songs sung in the Hainanese dialect of Chinese, which are influenced by Han culture, according to their forms of expression. Li songs have a set of beautiful tunes, similar to the singing, such as Qiongzhong, Baoting two counties of the "Luo Li tone", Qiongzhong County, "Shuiman tone" and so on.