Songs · ST10302
Work Chants (Haozi)
Call-and-response chants of boatmen, haulers and porters, their beat rising and falling with the work.
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Mural guide
On an earthen embankment beside a churning muddy river, labourers with long queues haul ropes on a timber frame to lift a heavy stone rammer. One man raises his arm to lead the work chant, while baskets of earth wait nearby.
Call-and-response songs of boatmen, fishermen, dockers, carriers and rammers at work