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Spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery by Li women: inscribed on UNESCO’s intangible heritage list in 2009 (urgent safeguarding), then on the Representative List in 2024.
UNESCO pageich.unesco.org→5A-rated park devoted to Li and Miao cultures: reconstructed villages, weaving, bamboo dance. No official website: information on site or through agencies.
Major 5A-rated Buddhist site with its Guanyin statue rising from the South China Sea, temples and gardens.
History of the island, the Li and Miao peoples and the Maritime Silk Road. Free entry, closed on Mondays.
Official websitehainanmuseum.org→Over 40 volcanoes, including the Ma’anling crater, south of Haikou: a UNESCO Global Geopark.
Global Geoparks Networkglobalgeopark.org→Early 20th-century arcaded houses whose façades blend Chinese, European and Southeast Asian influences, restored around Zhongshan Road.
Temple honouring five scholars exiled to Hainan under the Tang and Song dynasties, restored in 1889; next door, a temple to the poet Su Dongpo.
Founded in 1098 in memory of the poet Su Dongpo, exiled to Hainan, who taught there.
Long a land of exile for disgraced scholars, Hainan also has a strong identity of its own: the Li, the island’s first inhabitants, and the Miao live mostly in the central mountains around Wuzhishan and Baoting. On the third day of the third lunar month, the “Sanyuesan” festival brings songs, dances and traditional costumes. Several major sites have no official website: we present them without a link.
Header photo: Nanshan Guanyin — Gary Todd, CC0 / Wikimedia Commons