Later, on this basis, whiskers, painted faces and Tsing Yi "three doors" were added. Its musical singing has absorbed the characteristics of Bangzi cavity, and formed a system in which Qupai style is compatible with banqiang cavity, and its performance has been greatly enriched and improved.
Dingzhou Yangko repertoire is rich, involving a wide range of fields, including love, filial piety, chastity, case-solving, funny and many other categories. Li, a famous sociologist, collected and published Selected Songs of Dingxian County, which included nearly 100 plays. The repertoire of Yangko is mostly Han folk stories. Locals also call the big yangko opera "wife-tying post" (mainly playing the mother-in-law's family drama). Traditional repertoires include Double Locked Cabinets, Replacement of Young and Old, Wang Xiao Catching Feet, Borrowing Parallel Prose, Borrowing Women's Mourning, The Queen Mother Matchmaking, Wen Yang Begging, Eight Sisters of Sheep Shaving their Hair, and Peace Sending Rice. Transplanted dramas include the Imperial edict of the Tang Magistrate, Eight Young Sisters' Spring outing, Immortal Match, Legend of the White Snake, butterfly lovers, Baishuitan, Fighting Jiao Zan, Chibiling and other martial arts dramas, as well as modern dramas such as Seizing India and Revenge with Blood and Tears.
The distribution of drama
Dingxian Yangko is an influential opera in central Hebei. Besides Dingxian, there are amateur yangko teams in many rural areas of Baoding, such as Tangxian, Quyang, Wanxian, Wang Du, Mancheng and Anguo.
The traditional repertoire of Dingzhou Yangko retains a lot of information about Han folk customs and humanities, and has become a well-known Dingzhou Yangko at home and abroad.