Haozi--Work Song of Chongqing

With many visible and invisible reefs and numerous torrents and dangerous

 shoals, the river-route between Chongqing and Wushan is quite narrow and

winding.

The boats traveling in the river in the old society were mostly pulled by 

manpower and required anywhere from ten to 100 people or more. The 

workers developed a song to unite them under a single rhythm while they 

pulled, and so the Work Song of the Chuanjiang River came into being.

Resounding long in the air, the melody of the Work Song of the Chuanjiang 

River is penetrating, and was created to coordinate the action and emotion of 

the boat pullers. Now, the Work Song of the Chuanjiang River has been 

added into the first national intangible cultural heritage list.

First published by cqnews

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