Yangzhou Qingqu, also known as Guangling Qingqu and Weiyang Qingqu, is a folk art singing method based on Yangzhou popular folk songs and minor tunes in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Commonly known as singing or ditty, it is mainly popular in Yangzhou, Zhenjiang and Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, and is performed in Yangzhou dialect. On May 20th, 2006, Quyi was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

The performance form of Yangzhou Qingqu is commonly known as "open sitting": there is a table in the middle, surrounded by three or four people to six or seven people on three sides; Face the audience. Play an instrument, solo or duet without makeup or other props. Accompaniment instruments include Hu Si, erhu and pipa, and percussion instruments such as playing piano, pendants, knocking discs and wine glasses can also be added.

Quyi value:

Yangzhou Qingqu has been inherited for more than 600 years, and a large number of folk songs have been preserved since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The preservation of the original words of some folk songs is not only conducive to our understanding and research on ancient folk music and folk lyrics, but also has rare understanding and research value on the social, historical and cultural phenomena at that time.

The performance style of Yangzhou Qingqu is both popular and elegant, which accords with the artistic characteristics of Quyi, which is mainly narrative and supplemented by endorsement. Its content is close to life, close to the people, widely loved by the masses, and has strong artistic aesthetic value. Yangzhou Qingqu, due to its artistic maturity, also gave birth to many other varieties of Quyi and even local operas.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yangzhou Qingqu