Xiehouyu umbrella head yangko

The lyrics of Umbrella Head Yangko, commonly known as Yangko, are an important part of the folk song and dance art Umbrella Head Yangko, which is not only different from the ordinary four-sentence folk songs, but also fundamentally different from the dramatic Yangko lyrics. It is a rare art category in Han folk oral literature, with unique local color, strong local flavor and artistic charm of appealing to both refined and popular tastes. The summary is as follows: Yangko, the story explains: "Seedling, from the grain, if the seedling is full." Gao Shi once wrote a poem in the Tang Dynasty: "The stream is good for fishing, and the river is resistant to transplanting." (See Gao Changshi). According to a brief account of the countryside, "When transplanting rice in Sizhou ..... men and women in remote villages played drums and sang songs to each other, which was quite vulgar." This custom of beating drums and singing to each other was called "three sticks" in the Tang and Song Dynasties and "three sticks drums" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There is an explanation in the Book of Youth Day: "In wuyue, women beat drums with three sticks, especially men in Jiangzhuang and Fengyang, that is, three sticks in the Tang Dynasty." Zheng Qiao also wrote the Song of Transplanting Rice in the Southern Song Dynasty: "The desert is like a paddy field, and smoke from kitchen chimneys is curling up. The cuckoo crows, people are shoulder to shoulder, criss-crossing. " These are probably the driest written records of the word "yangko". The above written records show that in southern China, during the rice planting season, there is a custom that men and women beat drums and sing songs to each other, which actually originated in Tian Ge during the rice planting period. So yangko is also called Tian Ge, Song of Heaven, Miao Opera, Homework Song and so on, so yangko is the song of transplanting rice seedlings.