Can you lift a person? Could you carry that person for 200 kilometers? Before 1950 ,some Chinese did something like that. These men and women ,called porters ,carried tea on their backs They walked for 20 days. During that time ,thay traveled about 200 kilometers.
Luo Yong Fu was one of the person.
Although he weighed only about 50 kilograms,2 he carried more then 60 kilograms of tea! The heavy tea wasn’t the only hard part of the trip. The porters went up mountains. They crossed valets. They didn’t even stop when the snow was a meter deep. Luo Yong Fu carried tea from 19350 to 1949. He said, “It was a terrible job.’’ But people today still remember
Their hard work. The horses they brought back hrlped many people in China.
The tea was heavy ,so the porters had to often. As they walked, they sang a song