More than a song carried over the rice fields, this traditional form of oral verse—known as “Tha”, a poetic tradition of the Pgaz K’Nyau people—embodies the bonds connecting people to one another and humanity to nature. For generations, tha has served not only as a form of artistic expression but also as a means of transmitting ethical values, ecological knowledge, courtship, history, and community memory from one generation to the next.
