What does yangko mean?

There are broad sense and narrow sense. Broadly speaking, it refers to a song and dance art form popular in the rural areas of Han nationality in the northern provinces of China. In a narrow sense, yangko refers to the songs sung when performing this art form, that is, the "yangko tune" as a dance song. The genre of Yangko tunes is mostly minor, and a few are local folk art and local opera singing with rap characteristics. For example, the Yangko in the northeast of China, commonly known as "Yangko Liu Zi", was sung at the beginning of the Yangko performance. There are dozens of commonly used tunes, such as Noisy Night, Flying a Kite, Jasmine Flower, and more than ten rap songs, such as Wang Po scolds the chicken, Seeing the vat, Seeing the lamp for the blind, and Zhang Sheng beating Yingying. Hebei yangko tune, commonly known as "yangko skinny", is popular in eastern Hebei, with dozens of tracks, most of which are popular local folk tunes, and there are more than 50 tracks circulating in central Hebei. Representative tracks include "Borrowing Daughter's Filial Piety" and "Cui Guangrui's Firewood", which have the characteristics of rap music. The tunes circulating in Zhangjiakou, western Hebei Province are complex, and there is a saying of "nine tunes and eighteen tunes" in the local area. The music style is simple and lyrical. Shandong Yangko is represented by "Guzi Yangko" spread in the northern plain and "Jiaozhou Yangko" and "Haiyang Yangko" spread in Jiaodong Peninsula. Drum Yangko is a rap song, with such tracks as "Grand View Lantern", "Truth" and "Old Carving of Yuanyang Opera", which is humorous. Jiaozhou Yangko Tune absorbs many local operas, and commonly uses tunes such as Nangong, Dongpo, Koukou and Dabo Tune, and sings themes with storylines, such as butterfly lovers, Noisy School and Looking for Family, which has the characteristics of opera music. Haiyang Yangko tunes are mainly local folk tunes, such as salesgirl, oil seller, Ronaldinho and little sister dreaming. Its music style is lively and lively. Shanxi yangko tunes are represented by Jinzhong yangko and southeast Shanxi yangko. The tunes of Jinzhong Yangko are mostly local minor, with hundreds of tracks, such as Selling and Burning Earth, Walking to the West Exit, December, Embroidered Shoes and Trot. The music style is rough and bold. The tune of Yangko in southeastern Shanxi is close to the singing of traditional Chinese opera, and the tune has been divided into Allegro, Adagio and Kuqiang, which has the characteristics of traditional Chinese opera music. Most of the tunes of Shaanxi Yangko come from the "County Hubei accent", such as gang tune, cow silk, flower matching, swinging, cowherd and so on. Accompanied by Banhu Tuqiang, the musical style is similar to that of local operas.