直至本世纪五十年代,海南岛黎族中的一个支系,即居住在东方县西方乡一带的“美孚”黎,仍然保持着一个类似古代三月上已节的传统风习。每年夏历三月初三这一天,村子里的男青年把猎获的山鹿抬到祠堂祭拜祖先,祭拜的仪式由氏族的老年人主持。附近旧村、中村、西村的青年男女都盛装聚集到中村来欢度节日。成群的青年男女互相唱歌、谈笑和游玩。入暮,情意相投的就成对地走到村旁的树林中或溪边的草地 Until the 1950s, a branch of the Li ethnic group in Hainan Island, living in the western town of Dongfang County, still maintained a traditional style similar to that of the ancient Shangjie Festival in March. Every year on the third day of the third lunar month, the young men in the village carry the harvested mountain deer to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors. The ceremony is presided over by the elders of the clan. In the nearby old villages, Nakamura and Nishimura, young men and women gathered in Nakamura to celebrate the festival. Crowds of young men and women sing to each other, talk and laugh and play. Into twilight, affection congenial walk in pairs to the village in the woods or streams of grass