Changli Yangge
Chaohu Yangge
Guangling Yangge
Jiaozhou Yangge
Manchu Yangge
Qitai Yangge
Northern Shaanxi Yangge
Gaoqiao Yangge
Jilin Big Yangge
The folk dances in Jilin area include Yangko, dragon lanterns, land boats, butterflies, two-person wrestling, flower sticks, stilts and other forms are often performed together and are collectively called "Yangko". Before liberation, rural Yangko was performed with both twisting and singing, which was also called singing Yangko; rural Yangko was performed in Tunchuan villages, also called "running Yangko"; urban Yangko was only performed without singing, also called "twisting Yangko".
Before liberation, the Yangko team was all male, with two people working in teams, one "top" (the one pretending to be a woman, also called the "Baotou"), and one "bottom" (the one pretending to be a man, also called the "Baotou"). It’s called “fighting against ugliness”), it’s called “a frame”. A group of four people (two sets of drums) is called "Yibanggu". In the Yangko team, the "head drum", "second drum", and "three drum"... are arranged in an orderly manner, and each person has a fixed position. The "Tou Banggu" has the highest singing skills in the team, followed by the "Two Banggu" and the "Three Banggu". The leader of the yangko team, Dai Wensheng, wears a cape and holds a folding fan. He is the only one who does not have a matching jacket, so he is called "silly young man" or "shirt puller". The platoon leader of the yangko team is called "Lao Zuozi", and he also has a certain attitude: the "top" is an old lady with a cunning appearance, holding two sticks in hand and wearing red peppers in her ears; the "bottom" is a funny-looking old lady. Old man, hunchback, on crutches. There are also people in the Yangko team who dress up as characters in stories, such as Green Snake, White Snake, Zhu Bajie, Sun Wukong, etc. There are sixty or seventy people in the big Yangko team, and twenty or thirty people in the small one.
After the liberation of Yangko, the "silly young man", "old sitting boy", "one frame" and "one stick drum" were eliminated. Men pretending to be women, men pretending to be men, and women pretending to be men. Those who pretend to be women, whether in urban or rural areas, only perform tricks but do not sing.