China Daily (Hong Kong)

Culture:

- Poya Songbook

A chorus by villagers from Poya, Yunnan province, won a gold medal at the 2016 World Choir Games in Russia. is an ancient folk song collection written on a piece of hand-woven cloth in hieroglyph­ic symbols. Each of the 81 pictograms is written with cactus juice and symbolizes an ethnic folk song. In 2011, the book was added to the list of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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