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Boliyan or Bolis are couplets that are sung in Punjab.A Boli expresses situations their emotions and their typical situations. Usually a boli is sung and introduced by one woman and then the other girls form a chorus. These boliyan are usually passed down generation by generation orally. This forms a continuous and successive chain each generation being taught by their predecessor. It is through this process that boliyan have refined and passed on from long ago.