Hainan legislates to protect ethnic culture  

海南立法保护世居少数民族文化 祭祀葬礼列其中

海南省四届人大常委会25日审议通过了《海南省少数民族文化保护与开发条例》(以下简称《条例》)，立法保护世居海南省黎族、苗族和回族的10类民族文化，民族传统医药、历法、宗教、祭祀、葬礼等列其中。

Haikou (CNS) – Hainan's legislature on Tuesday adopted regulations to protect and explore local ethnic culture in China's southernmost province.

The legislation covers ten categories of minority culture, namely the medicine, calendars, regions, ritual ceremonies, languages, art, literature, tattooing, costumes and architecture that originated from peoples such as the Li, Miao and Hui.

According to the regulations, training and funding will be provided to protect intangible culture heritages and encourage new practitioners to keep them from dying out.