The Ballads of Building Walls in Garze Region

The Ballads of Building Walls are one of the labor songs circulating in Tibet related areas for building Tibetan style civil structure houses.The walls of this type of house are not made of adobe bricks. The method is to use large wooden planks to bind them on both sides of the foundation and fill them with wet soil. Then people line up on top of them, holding a wooden tool that is thick at the bottom and thin at the top, while playing and singing.

The Ballads of Building Walls are one of the labor songs circulating in Tibet related areas for building Tibetan style civil structure houses.The walls of this type of house are not made of adobe bricks. The method is to use large wooden planks to bind them on both sides of the foundation and fill them with wet soil. Then people line up on top of them, holding a wooden tool that is thick at the bottom and thin at the top, while playing and singing.

The Ballads of Building Walls are one of the labor songs circulating in Tibet related areas for building Tibetan style civil structure houses.The walls of this type of house are not made of adobe bricks. The method is to use large wooden planks to bind them on both sides of the foundation and fill them with wet soil. Then people line up on top of them, holding a wooden tool that is thick at the bottom and thin at the top, while playing and singing.
