The characters of the Ying Ge team are the heroes and heroines of Liang Shan Po.
Yingge (Chaoyang Yingge) is a traditional dance of Shantou City, Guangdong Province, and one of the national intangible cultural heritages. The members of the Ying Ge are all dressed as ancient warriors, but only Sun Erniang wears a sword and horse costume, and everyone is envisioned as a Liang Shan Po hero, but in fact only a few of the protagonists have been given the names of Liang Shan Po heroes to paint their faces.
Chaoyang Yingge is the continuation of the Han folk square dance and Nuo cultural form, in the continuation of certain changes, to the Ming Dynasty absorbed the northern drums of the sub-Yangge, gradually evolved into Yingge dance, became a unique form of expression of folk dance art in the Chaoyang area. According to the dance rhythm, the complete performance program is generally divided into three parts, namely, "the front shed", "the middle shed" and "the back shed".
Ying Ge team performance form:
Complete Chao Yang Ying Ge dance performance program, generally divided into "front shed" "in the shed" "rear shed " three parts. The front shed is for men's group dance, the middle shed consists of small singing, small drama or opera clip performance, etc., and the back shed is for martial arts performance.
The front, middle and back sheds constitute the whole of the English song performance, but the most characteristic of the English song, but also the main part of the English song and dance performance, when it belongs to the front sheds, many modern English song team has been richly developed in the front sheds of the group dance, but it is reduced or even discarded in the middle and back sheds of the performance.