What are the yangko?

According to different classification methods, there are many kinds of yangko.

Yangko is generally divided into two types: land yangko and stilts.

According to the region, it can be divided into three types: Northeast Yangko, Shandong Yangko and Northern Shaanxi Yangko.

The first is the northeast yangko.

Popular in three northeastern provinces (northeast of China), it originated from the Central Plains and combined with local Manchu culture, forming a representative Northeast Yangko.

There are three forms of performance in Northeast Yangko, namely, duet, land yangko and stilt yangko, and there are performance procedures such as flower field, ODA, singing happy songs and duet. The accompaniment instruments used are suona, cymbals, cymbals, drums, flutes, erhu and bamboo boards.

The music of Northeast Yangko is very lively, with the characteristics of pungent, funny and gorgeous. Very folk.

The second is the Shandong Yangko.

There are three most representative yangko in Shandong (East China), namely drum yangko, JIAOZHOU yangko and Haiyang yangko.

Drum yangko is popular in Linyi, Shanghe and Huimin areas in northern Shandong. Drum yangko is a kind of rap song. The play is humorous and has the honest and frank generous character of Shandong people.

Jiaozhou Yangko is mainly popular in Jiaozhou area in the southeast of the mountain. Happy and funny, there are many suona songs and gongs and drums in Jiaozhou Yangko.

The third is the northern Shaanxi (western China) Yangko.

Northern Shaanxi Yangko is popular in Mizhi, Wubao, Jiaxian, Suide, Qingjian and other places. There is a custom of visiting New Year from door to door in northern Shaanxi. Very lively. The tunes sung in northern Shaanxi songs are different.