1, Harvest and Blessing: Dance yangko is usually performed during the harvest season from July to September in the lunar calendar, symbolizing the celebration and gratitude for the harvest. It symbolizes farmers' expectation and blessing for a bumper harvest, and expresses their gratitude to nature through dancing, hoping to get the blessing and blessing of a bumper harvest.
2. Joy and celebration: Yangko is a joyful dance form, featuring cheerful music and active dance steps. It symbolizes people's love and celebration of life, expresses joy and happiness through dance, and brings participants and audiences a happy experience.
3. Unity and team spirit: Yangko is a kind of collective dance, usually a group of people join hands and dance side by side in a queue. It symbolizes unity and community spirit, and shows the strength and cohesion of people's close unity through dance movements and mutual cooperation.
Yangko is a representative folk dance form of the Han nationality, also known as "twisting yangko", "making yangko", "walking yangko" and "making social trouble". Yangko has a long history, and the most primitive form appeared in the middle and late Neolithic Age. It originated from working life and was related to the songs and dances in ancient times. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the embryonic form of yangko began to appear. There are yangko on the brick carvings unearthed from the Song Dynasty tombs in Shaanxi Province, China. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yangko had been recorded in some local chronicles in Shandong. In Qing dynasty, the content and form of yangko became more specific. After 1942 "Speech at Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art" was published, the development of yangko art injected new vitality, and the performance of new yangko reached its climax in 1944 Spring Festival. In the middle and late 1940s, a massive new Yangko movement appeared in the liberated areas. In the 1980s and 1990s, yangko was twisted from the Spring Festival to the 15th day of the first month.