The main performance forms of Dengguan include singing, chanting, acting and beating.

Singing refers to singing, and chanting refers to musical recitation. The two complement each other and constitute one of the two major elements of the singing and dancing Peking Opera performing art; doing and playing: doing refers to dance-like physical movements, Finger-beating martial arts and tumbling skills are combined with each other to form dance, one of the two major elements of the singing and dancing Peking Opera performing art.

Singing, chanting, acting and fighting are the four artistic methods of Peking Opera performance, as well as the four basic skills of Peking Opera performance. Singing with fingers and chanting with musical recitations complement each other, forming one of the two major elements of Peking Opera's singing and dancing art form. Songs, dance-like body movements, finger-fighting and tumbling techniques, they complement each other. Combined, dance constitutes one of the two major elements of the singing and dancing Peking Opera performing art.

The Four Skills, commonly known as the Four Skills and Five Methods, refer to the four skills of singing, chanting, doing and fighting.

Yuxian Dengguan:

Yuxian Dengguan is a form of Spring Festival social fire popular in Yuxian County, Shanxi Province. Deng Guan is also called "Farmers Association" and "Guan Guan". It is a rare performance form spread in Daji Village, Yuxian County, Shanxi Province, which imitates the production of agricultural tools, grains and vegetables as lanterns.

The "Lengguan" consists of 33 people. Among them, the county magistrate is wearing the official uniform of the seventh rank in opera, holding a paper fan in his hand, sitting on a fan cart, and being carried by four bearers. There are four yamen in front of the sedan, carrying sieve-shaped "gong lanterns", "clearing lanterns" and broom-shaped "avoidance" and "quiet" lanterns respectively. The four followers behind the sedan also carry "wooden lanterns", "wooden shovel lanterns" and "wax skewer lanterns" respectively.

20 performers followed, all dressed in Ming Dynasty costumes. They hold lanterns in various shapes such as plow, columbine, mill, hoe, sickle, dustpan, corn, sorghum, vegetables, fruits and so on.