The song-and-dance duet is very popular in the Northeastern China, which is also called Chang Bengzi or Ji Ju. When foreigners come to learn Chinese in China, they can see it is a kind of opera form with singing and dancing. It has a history of 200 years with special local characteristics.

The words and language is the song-and-dance duet is easy to understand. With great humor, it shows characterized local coloring. Those who study Chinese in China may be told that the music is based on the folk songs and Yangko in northeastern China. For the dancing, it centers on the Yangko and absorbs some folk dancing and martial arts and so forth. There are three forms of the song-and-dance duet. But the foreign students who study Mandarin in China should know the most popular is that one people singing and another dancing. The performance shows people’s pursuit for the beauty of art.

After the new China was founded, the government has been making efforts to protect this form of opera. Some students who learn Chinese in China may hear that many activities were held for the aged artists to teach the techniques.