Culture Li

Most of the Li now dress as they Are, except in the holidays, when every ethnic group dresses of different form. In the women the most typical pledge is the straight skirt, but that has a lot of differences from a few branches to others, in length, color and design. They are very good weavers.

"To dress the children" is a ceremony of the Branch Meifu. To 13 ó 14 days of being born, if he is a girl or child, invites the neighbors of the same sex. Chickens and turkeys sacrifice themselves, the guests touch the garment and then to the father, that out of the house, there receives the child that the mother delivers to him from within, and he announces his right to dress or to undress the son, inviting the congregated ones to look for a name to the son. The males always take Ba, and the women Bai, in this case it is the mother who him extracts, and there it is the women congregated out who name the girl. The guests come with gifts, and on having gone away, the hosts also do obsequiousnesses to them.

They have the habit of chewing betel, like many other peoples of the Southeast.

His houses are of bamboo and they have form of ship. According to his traditions it is to remember the passage for sea that his ancestors did to come to Hainan. His houses are interspersed, raised generally, and with straw roof to two waters.

The medicine is quite advanced.

Until 1940 the women were tattooing the face and the back. Tattooes that were different for every tribe.

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