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Oral legacies: Epics and tales told by songs

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Dai people: Zhangha

Meaning “singers” in the Dai language, Zhangha is a popular performance art among the Dai people, who inhabit Southwest China’s Yunnan province. It originally only involved folk song singing but came to include storytelling in the first half of the 15th century.

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