The basic movements of Jiaozhou Yangge mainly include:
"Cuihua Twisting Three Steps", "Skimming the Fan", "Small Twisting", "Rod Flower", "Ugly Drum Eight States" and so on. Stick Flower", "Ugly Drums and Eight Styles" and so on.
Jiaozhou Rice-planting Song is one of the three major rice-planting songs in Shandong Province, also known as "Ground Rice-planting Song", "Playing Rice-planting Song", "Stilt Rice-planting Song", "Twisting off the Waist", "Three Times the World" and "Three Times the World". It is also known as "Ground Yangge", "Juggling Yangge", "Stilted Yangge", "Twisted Waist", "Three Bends", etc. It is popular in the area of East Xiaotun Village of Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province. Jiaozhou rice-planting song originated in the Qing Dynasty during the Xianfeng period, according to the Qing Dynasty Song Guanwei made "rice-planting song lyrics" description of the presumption that the Jiaozhou rice-planting song of the dance movement, line name, clothing and props and so on with the present basically the same.
The Jiaozhou Yangge has the roles of anointed guest, cuihua, fan girl, small, mallet, drums, etc. The basic movements are mainly "cuihua twisting three steps", "skimming the fan", "small twisting", "mallet flower", "fan", "small twisting", and "small twisting", The basic movements include "Cuihua twisting three steps", "skimming the fan", "small twisting", "stick flower", "ugly drums and eight states", etc. The performance procedures include "opening speech" and "running", The performance program consists of "opening speech", "running scene" and "small drama", and the running scene formation includes "cross plums", "four-door bucket" and "two-door", "Positive and negative heart digging", "big swing team", "rope head" and so on, there are also "send the daughter", "three wise", "small aunt wise", "double push mill" and other small plays. In the Jiaozhou Yangge, women's dance movements are heavy and light with floating waist and body, walking like wind-swinging willows, rich in toughness and curvature, with "twisting off the waist" and "three bends" as their representative movements; "mallet" movements are light and brittle, and "rope head" and so on. The movements of "mallets" are light and brittle; the movements of "drums" are "ugly drums and eight states" with peculiar flavors. Its music consists of three major parts: percussion, suona, and folk tunes. The original 72 repertoires of the small opera rice-planting songs are now 135 in existence. There are more than 100 rice-planting song teams in the city of Jiaozhou. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the relevant personnel have been seven times on the Jiaozhou rice-planting songs for excavation and finishing, has been listed as one of the teaching materials of the Chinese national dance. 1996, Xiaotun Village was awarded the title of "China's folk art township" by the Ministry of Culture.
Jiaozhou Yangge was born in the countryside, active in the folk, in the development of their own changes, is the masses of spontaneous participation, free catharsis, self-entertainment, square folk art, showing the rural women of Jiaodong unique fitness posture and emotional charm, has a high aesthetic value and artistic research value.