Playing Aga from the labor "chat" to the wonderful folk song and dance performance
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Daaga is a traditional Tibetan roof or house floor construction method. It uses the local unique "Aga soil" soil and gravel mixed with water and then spreads it on the ground or roof, and then artificially uses it. Repeated tamping to make the ground and roof solid, smooth and water-proof.
A group of Tibetan women wearing aprons around their waists, holding wooden rams (hang) in their hands, divided into two groups and sang the labor song of ramming the roof one after another during labor. The singing unifies the rhythm, the sound of the wooden sticks ramming the earth is the rhythm, and the chorus is repeated round by round. This is "playing aga".
In the old town of Barkhor Street in Lhasa or in various monasteries, you may encounter Da Aga. It is ethereal when it is far away, and it is indescribably moved when approached.

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Aga (pinyin: Ā gā), a Tibetan body-sounding musical instrument. Popular throughout the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is a rammed musical instrument, which is made by inserting a long wooden stick into a flat round stone. The stone diameter is 12 cm to 18 cm, the stone thickness is 2 cm to 4 cm, and the length of the wooden stick is 130 cm to 150 cm. The diameter of the wooden stick needs to match the stone hole.

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