Tilling the fields, planting rice, picking betel nuts, husking rice, celebrating a wedding or birthday, going off to serve in the army or to fish at sea, returning from far away, and illness: all are the stuff of song.
平常，犁田、種稻、採檳榔、杵小米，親族婚禮、生日，男子當兵、出海，遠行的回來了，有人生病了，幾乎無所不歌。