Editing Yangge (section)

==Types==
There are two major types of yangge, one is Stilt Yangge which is performed on stilts, the other is Ground Yangge which is more common and is performed without stilts.   Another version of the yangge is the village play, an anthology of which was published by [[Sidney D. Gamble]] in 1970, based on transcriptions made by [[Li Jinghan]] as part of the [[Ding Xian Experiment]]'s surveys in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite book |author=Sidney D. Gamble |title=Chinese Village Plays from the Ting Hsien Region (Yang Ke Hsüan); a Collection of Forty-Eight Chinese Rural Plays as Staged by Villagers from Ting Hsien in Northern China |location= Amsterdam |publisher=Philo Press |year= 1970 |isbn=  978-9060224007 |others= Translated from the Chinese by various scholars after the original recordings and edited with a critical introd. and explanatory notes by Sidney D. Gamble.}}</ref>

The Yangge drama or Yangge opera ({{lang|zh|秧歌剧}}) usually consists of a quatrain of seven stanzas or long and short sentences.<ref>China monthly review - Volumes 120 à 121.</ref> An example is the founding piece of the [[China National Opera]] when it was founded in [[Yan'an]] in 1942, which was with a performance of a Yangge drama  [[Brothers and Sisters Opening up the Wasteland]] ({{lang|zh|兄妹开荒}}). The Yangko owed something to normal spoken drama (''[[huaju]]''), but with dance, and songs added.<ref>Contemporary Chinese theatre - Page 8 Roger Howard - 1978 "1 The yangko dramas Brothers and Sisters Open up Wasteland and The White-haired Girl were produced by the Lu Hsun Academy in Yenan. These musical plays owed something to the modern drama (huachu) — in particular in their more ."</ref>