There is a folk saying in China about the origin of "Yangko". In order to alleviate the pain of facing the loess and facing the sky, ancient farmers gradually formed Yangko by singing.
Another folklore is that "Yangko" originated from the flood fighting. In order to survive, people along the ancient Yellow River struggled to fight floods. Finally, they won. Everyone happily picked up flood fighting tools as props, singing and dancing, expressing their happy mood. With the increase of participants, yangko gradually formed a dance movement and dance combination.
The third folk story "The Records of Yan 'an Prefecture" records that "the country is disturbed by spring, commonly known as Yangko", so it can be seen from the pavilion that Yangko may have originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to the land gods on the country day.
A dance form widely circulated in China with distinctive national characteristics. It is mainly performed in the square on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This dance is closely related to agricultural labor.
Based on the labor footwork, the dance footwork was artistically processed, which made the mass team dance orderly and formed a complete yangko, and gradually became a congratulatory and entertaining New Year's social fire team dance. Most of the performances are China folk stories, myths and legends.
Yangko was popular in Qing Dynasty, and Wu Xiqi, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, thought that Dengaku, a popular Chinese folk dance village in Song Dynasty, was the predecessor of Yangko.
Extended data:
Yangko is a representative folk dance popular in China (mainly in the north), and its appellation and style are different in different regions.
In the folk, there are two names for yangko: those who walk on stilts are called "Yangko on stilts" and those who don't walk on stilts are called "Tuyangko". The so-called "yangko" in modern times refers to "local yangko".
Yangge has a long history. In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a record of "Village Dengaku" in the folk dance team carefully introduced by The Legend of Wulin. Wu Xilin's New Year's Miscellaneous Chants in Qing Dynasty clearly recorded the original relationship between the existing yangko and Tianle Village in Song Dynasty. ?
On May 20th, 2006, Yangko was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-yangge