Tanzhuang Yangko Dance is a traditional dance item in the first batch of representative items of intangible cultural heritage in Changzhou. Tanzhuang Yangko Lantern is a traditional dance that originated in the late Ming Dynasty and spread in the natural area of Tanzhuang Village, Jintan Economic Development Zone. In the spring of the tenth year of Emperor Xianfeng's reign, the Taiping Army conquered Jintan City with blood and blood. A high platform was set up in front of the Dai Wang Mansion in the city to perform various programs, including Yangko Lantern. On the walls and beams of the Dai Wang Mansion in Jintan, a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province, the painted patterns related to Tanzhuang Yangko Lantern can still be clearly seen. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Tanzhuang Yangko Lantern activity was once silent. In the 27th year of the Republic of China, local artists Chen Quanbao and Qi Suoqing and others promoted the Yangko Lantern activity in Tanzhuang, which was first called "Tanzhuang Dance Yangko Lantern" or "Tanzhuang Yangko Lantern". Since then, it has been frequently performed in the border areas of Jintan, Wujin, and Danyang, as well as in Maoshan and Jurong. There are 13 characters in the performance of Tanzhuang Yangge Lantern, all of whom are dressed as corresponding characters in ancient dramas from their identities, costumes to facial makeup. The performance instruments and products mainly include lanterns, folding fans, wind and percussion instruments, etc. The main tunes include "Yangqu", "Maqu", "Wandiao", "Jishengqu", etc., and the singing segments include "Wandering Son Outing in Spring", "Watching Lanterns", "Playing with Yingying", etc. Tanzhuang Yangge Lantern has both elements derived from the performances of ancient drama characters, as well as the absorption of folk songs and seasonal tunes, and the introduction from folk art and music, as well as the transfer from foreign folk wind and percussion singing. The singing voice is full of the flavor of the Jiangnan water town, the tune is lyrical and pleasant, the dance movements are soft and simple, relaxed and happy, the lyrics are popular and fluent, and moving with emotion, enjoying the reputation of "nine tunes and eighteen tunes, and the tunes have colors". Its paired performances, formation changes and related props have regularities, all of which are mainly "circular", and the dance movements are soft and elegant, soothing and delicate. At the same time, the actors pay attention to facial expressions, are reserved and elegant, and are vivid and vivid, achieving a wonderful performance effect with high artistic appreciation. Since 1953, song and dance theaters, art institutes, dance groups and some art schools in Jiangsu Province and Shanghai have sent experts, scholars or professionals to observe and interview Tanzhuang Yangge Lantern. In 1983, Tanzhuang Yangge Lantern was invited to Nanjing to participate in the provincial folk song and dance performance and was commended. In 1988, Tanzhuang Yangge Lantern was included in the "Collection of Chinese National Folk Dances". In 2006, Jintan Archives invited Fan Xuegui and Hua Ming, who had collected and sorted out folk songs and dances in the 1950s, to conduct in-depth research on the handwritten "Yangge Lantern" and translate its gongche notation into simplified notation. As the "gene bank" of Jiangnan folk dance art, its main dance movements and tunes have been transplanted by many professional art groups such as Jiangsu Song and Dance Troupe and Changzhou Cultural Center. Its transplanted works "A Beautiful Jasmine Flower" and "Sun Rain" have won awards in national and provincial competitions. (No pictures available, please provide them.) (No pictures available, please provide them.)