Characteristics of the repertoire of Dingzhou Yangge Opera

There are many traditional repertoires of Dingzhou Yangge, which are divided into filial piety, chastity, love, husband-and-wife relationship, public court complaint and comedy according to the contents of the repertoires. These plays are the creation of the people, reflecting the voice of the people, the play is simple, understandable as words, there are a lot of dialects and slang, the life atmosphere is very strong, the most popular among the people.

Dingzhou Yangge has a unique singing style, which is a unique musical gene in the hundred gardens of Chinese opera.

The traditional repertoire retains a large number of Han folklore and humanistic information, and has become the first-hand information for scholars at home and abroad to study the Han folklore and traditional culture of China.

In the past 20 years, scholars from Europe and America have visited Dingzhou many times for research and observation of the Dingzhou Rice-planting Songs, and the Dingzhou Rice-planting Songs have become the channel for academic exchanges between China and abroad.