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The Tea Porter’s Song
Seven steps up, you have to rest.
Eight steps down, you have to rest.
Eleven steps flat, you have to rest.
You are stupid, if you don’t rest.
The tea porters trekked the twenty kilometre distance between Yuan and Kangding (from China to Nepal) carrying 135 kg loads of tea bricks on their backs, using a T shaped crutch which they sat on during the rest periods.
The old tea porters interviewed were Gan Shoo Yu, 87 and Li Wen Liang, 78.
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