What is Yangko Opera? How did the Yangko Movement come into being?

Yangko Movement is the crystallization of Yan 'an musicians' participation in people's real life, learning folk art and creating for the people in response to Chairman Mao's call to "walk out of Lu Xiao art and go to the road art".

The new yangko opera mostly reflects the battle and life of the soldiers and civilians in the liberated areas, such as the reflection of the large-scale production movement, the description of the new picture of farm life, and the display of soldiers' life. Musically, based on folk music in northern Shaanxi and other places, it combines the tone and rhythm of mass songs, and at the same time can express the composer's distinctive personal music creation style. The vigorous rise and rapid development of yangko opera has made necessary ideological and artistic preparations and accumulation for the emergence of new opera.