Customs and culture of Li nationality

The customs and culture of Li nationality;

1, Li women's dress custom

In the traditional dress of Li nationality, women usually wear shirts with stand-up collars and double-breasted buttons. Of course, there is still no collar of the same shape. There is also a kind of clothing in the form of a through coat, which is simply a dress that is pulled out directly without a skirt. Generally, the lower body will wear cylindrical skirts of different lengths.

Li women pay special attention to their personal image, so they will dress up carefully before going out. Hairstyles are mainly tied at the back of the head and tied into ponytails with leather covers or ribbons. Of course, older women also comb their hair in a bun. Li women, like Zhuang and Miao women, have a very strong awareness of silver earrings, collars and bracelets.

2. Li men's wear custom

Compared with Li women, men's clothes are simpler in color, style and decoration. Li Men's traditional dress is a collarless, chest-opening coat, with a "sling" with national characteristics on the lower body. Shoes are usually cloth shoes with a thousand soles. Although it looks simple, it is meaningful.

3. Dietary customs of Li nationality

Li people usually eat three meals a day. Their staple food is rice, and they eat "Shan Lan" fragrant rice at every meal. This fragrant rice is not only full of grains, but also soft and waxy in taste, and it has a particularly strong rice flavor when cooking.

Because Li people have lived in Hainan Island for generations, seafood is the main course in their daily life. In daily life, many Li people eat raw fish and fried rice noodles with meat. The main feature of this food is its delicious taste, which can stimulate taste buds and relieve craving.

In fact, the main dietary feature of the Li nationality is pickled food, and the meat tea and fish tea sealed in pottery pots are the most distinctive flavor foods of the Li nationality. Because betel nut is abundant in the local area, eat areca is as convenient as chewing gum for Li people and women in daily life.

4. Characteristics and customs of Li nationality

The traditional residents of the Li nationality generally live in relatively simple thatched houses, and of course there is a kind of bamboo house called "boathouse". The main material of this kind of house is bamboo, then the walls and roofs are covered with thatch, and then the floors are made of rattan or bamboo characters. Because the local climate is humid, people have to paste mud outside after building their houses.

Most of the Li inhabited areas share the same surname. Li nationality has been monogamous since ancient times. Moreover, it is also stipulated that people with the same surname or the same clan cannot marry. Comparatively speaking, this marriage custom of Li nationality is based on the ethical code style. Moreover, Li girls, like Miao girls, have a special national custom, that is, "staying indoors" after marriage.

Li, the earliest resident of Hainan Island.

Li nationality is a minority branch of Baiyue nationality in ancient society, belonging to Guyue nationality. However, if we analyze the development history of ancient nationalities, we can find that "Baiyue" actually has many branches. Wuyue, South Vietnam, Yangyue, Fujian, Vietnam; Dong 'ou, Xi 'ou and Luoyue all belong to the Yue nationality.

The Li nationality belongs to the Luoyue branch of the ancient Yue nationality in the pre-Qin period. Before the establishment of the Qin Dynasty or the Western Han Dynasty, the ancestors of the Li nationality were always called "Luoyue" by the Central Plains Dynasty at that time. From this perspective, we can see that the Li people have lived in Baiyue in the Qin Dynasty or Lingnan in the Han and Tang Dynasties since ancient times.