Jiaozhou Yangge is the dance of which region?

Shandong Province

Jiaozhou Rice-planting Song, also known as Ground Rice-planting Song and Running Rice-planting Song, and known as Twisting and Breaking the Waist and Three Bends in the local folklore, is one of the traditional folk dances in Shandong Province, and belongs to one of the three major rice-planting songs.

Jiaozhou rice-planting song has a history of more than 230 years, in the Qing Dynasty, Jiaozhou Bao Yan Tun Zhao, Ma two families fled Guandong in 1764, along the way, begging and singing, and gradually formed a kind of dance while singing form. After returning to their hometown, years of improvement, to 1863 molding, dance, singing, accompaniment have a certain form.

Fleeing the road, the old man back drums, son dance dog stick, wife back Cuihua bag, daughter-in-law, granddaughter is dancing and singing, begging along the road, 12 years later, the two families returned to the Jiaozhou, this form of performance is the prototype of the Jiaozhou rice-planting songs. Jiaozhou Yangge*** has six lines, two forms of expression, two schools and a set of performance customs.