What is yangko?

The special songs for yangko dance are: sedan chair, crescent moon, yangko, good luck, good day and so on. Four seasons tune the lyrics, the first month of the female comes, it is the Spring Festival, and the male catches up with the pigs and sheep to go out. Where have all the female pigs and sheep been sent? These people gave them to the heroic Eighth Route Army. Sedan chair is a kind of traditional folk music. Music arranged according to the movement, walking and movement state of sedan chair is widely circulated among the people in China and is one of the traditional classical music in China. The performance form is mainly suona.

Where is the custom of dancing yangko?

Yangko dancing is a custom in Northeast China, which is a region with strong local folk customs. On holidays, people will hold cultural activities that they like to see and hear, and there are countless kinds. Including northeast duet, yangko and so on. Every Spring Festival in Northeast China, many yangko teams will be organized, one after another, stepping on stilts and beating drums to walk the streets, beaming, adding joy to the taste of the year. The predecessor of Yangko is the singing activity of farmers when transplanting rice seedlings, which originated from agricultural production and labor.