Crowds packed across the street, painted dancers with sticks pushing forward, a banner reading “yingge” standing on the right, firecracker paper on the ground

Chaoyang · Taguan, Miancheng

Taguan Yingge Team

Taguan is in Miancheng. Formed in 2014, with more than 300 members; about a hundred go on stage, and the youngest Shi Qian is nine.

2014Formed

300-pluson the roster

107national day parade line-up

medium-fast tempomain stick

drumstickface paintingformationfront sectionrear sectionslow tempomedium tempofast tempogong-and-drum band

A street parade, the team cutting through the crowd

Red firecracker paper all over the street, the team walking over it

A street parade, the team drawn out into a single file

Taguan is the men’s Yingge of the Ximen team. Ximen also has a women’s team, there since 1952: one team, two doors, both from the same place.

When the town watches Yingge it watches Taguan first — the stage is here, and once the drum starts half the street can hear it.

1 · Team and method

southern fists, northern legs

In a word: fast, together, hard.

The street

Red paper all the way

When they go out, firecracker paper lies ankle-deep. A hundred-odd stretch into one line, neither end in sight.

Marching in the street; a dancer in the front rank wears two long pheasant tails and blue armour

Costume

Two pheasant tails

Two long pheasant tails go at the head of the line, held upright as they walk. Rank after rank follow, every face painted.

Night practice: dancers in ordinary clothes walking the street in file

Street practice

Beating the street at night

They practise at night unpainted. In ordinary clothes they walk the street in file, the drum never stopping and the feet keeping to it.

A seven-storey, eight-sided brick pagoda in the town, streets and passers-by below it

Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0

Below the pagoda

around Wenguang Pagoda

Taguan stands near Wenguang Pagoda, and the Shuangzhong stage belongs to the team. The pagoda is in the middle of the town, seven storeys and eight sides, with a gallery you can climb.

2 · On the ground

Striking, raising, resting

One team, four moments.

Three dancers striking sticks. Photo: Xiao Kaihong

The opening, sticks raised above the head — The opening, sticks above the head. Photo: Xiao Kaihong

Resting off stage, sticks laid on the ground — Off stage, sticks laid on the ground. Photo: Xiao Kaihong

Standing in costume: green face, red lines, gold crown — In costume, green face with red lines. Photo: Xiao Kaihong

All four come under a single permission from Xiao Kaihong and are not the team’s own; the three that can be traced to the team are in the previous section.

3 · Formations

Seven names

From an account of the 107-dancer “full line-up” at the 11th Shuangzhong Cultural Festival.

eight-trigram formationpositions taken by direction

ring formationopening from the centre outwards

plum-blossom formationfive points for the flower

Two dragons to seatwo files abreast

star-scattered formationscattered over the whole ground

stars around the moona ring guarding the centre

heroes rejoicingthe closing passage

four columnsthe marching order

The names exist; the floor plans do not. The glosses above merely restate the names and are not the source’s own account of the movement.

4 · Images

Seen in the street

A night procession in the square, the Shuangzhong festival street, the return to the temple at night, plus the temple forecourt and the night practice: nine moments in all.

Three dancers on a square: one with a large cymbal on the left, two with small drums on the right, a ring of spectators behind — A night procession in the square: one cymbal and two drums set out in a triangle.

Two dancers leaping and striking in mid-street, pheasant tails crossing, coloured paper underfoot — Striking in the middle of the street, two long pheasant tails crossing in the air.

A rank of dancers striking in the street, the team's vertical banner hanging high, coloured paper everywhere underfoot — The line opens out and a vertical banner with the team’s name goes up high.

An arch and red banners at the mouth of the street, the team passing under the arch, crowds on both sides — The Shuangzhong festival arch stands at the mouth of the street and the team passes beneath it.

The line opening out across the square, spectators ringing it, a few shadows on the ground — The formation opens out across the square, people ringing it on four sides.

At the temple gate at night, a painted drum set up among the crowd, red flags on either side — Coming back to the temple at night, a large drum set up at the gate.

The temple forecourt, a team performing, the plaque across the lintel — The temple forecourt; the plaque over the door reads, in four characters, “loyalty and righteousness, a legacy”.

In the square at night, dozens of dancers still in ordinary clothes practising sticks, the lamps drawing long shadows — Practising sticks in the square at night, the street lamps stretching the shadows.

A red-faced dancer before the temple, head up, stick raised, cymbals going beside him — The opening before the temple: a red-faced dancer lifts his stick, head up.

5 · Close reading

Eight notes

Numbers, years, outings — each one checkable.

Formed

2014. Per the Shantou Polytechnic Yingge feature (2025-03-04).

Two counts

In 2025-03 the college page says “now over a hundred members”; in 2023-09 Chen Tanpeng said in an interview that “there are more than 300”. A year and a half apart, and the material does not explain the change, so both are given side by side.

107

The line-up for the Shantou national day parade on 2023-10-01. The one missing is Lu Junyi — he is the man being rescued and does not stand in the ranks.

How long the line is

107 in a single file run past a hundred metres; split into four columns, about fifty.

Inheritors

Chen Tanpeng, a district-level inheritor of Chaoyang Yingge and Taguan’s coach.

Going out

Liede village and Heli Tiande Plaza in Guangzhou, the Mazu Tianhou Temple at Nansha; and in 2024 to Hong Kong, China for the birthday of Wong Tai Sin at Che Song.

Into the schools

The main coaching unit for Yingge in Chaoyang schools, teaching regularly in primaries, secondaries and kindergartens.

Images

The lead image and the first six in section four come from the team’s own video: this team at Wenguang Pagoda square, on the Shuangzhong festival street and returning to the temple at night. The video stream tops out at 1024×576, enough for cards only. The last three in section four are other teams; only the photographer is credited.

Last

Three things not yet settled

All three lack primary material.

One

The roster of 300-odd. Only a total: no name list, and no split between senior and junior teams.

Two

How the seven formations work. How many to a group, how far apart, when the beat changes — none of it is written.

Three

Where the medium tempo ends and the fast begins. “The medium-fast tempo is the main stick” is one team’s phrasing; which passage slows down the material does not separate.

Elsewhere · exits

Look elsewhere

Chaoyang Yingge Jin’ou Township Yingge Team How it is danced Teams Glossary

Sources

Sources	Type
Chaoyang Wenguang Taguan Yingge TeamShantou Polytechnic · Yingge feature2025-03-04	College feature page
Wenguang Ximen Yingge Team, Chaoyang (Taguan is its men’s Yingge)Shantou Polytechnic · Yingge feature2025-03-04	College feature page
107 dancers! Rehearsals for the Shantou national day paradeNanfang Plus2023-09-23	Media reports
Taguan Yingge TeamKuaidong Baike (records a 2023-03 shoot for CCTV-4’s “Across China”)Entry undated	Encyclopaedia entry
Taguan Yingge video (night procession at Wenguang Pagoda square, the Shuangzhong festival street, the return to the temple at night)The lead image and two in section four come from the Douyin account “Chaoshan Zhou Mingcheng”, shot at Wenguang Pagoda square on 2023-10-08; the other four come from three posts by the team’s own account2023-10-08 and 2025–2026	Images
Yingge (Chaoyang Yingge)China Intangible Cultural Heritage NetworkListed-project page; first batch, 2006	National list entry
Yingge images (Wikimedia Commons)Wikimedia Commons; photographers credited in captionsRetrieved 2026-10	Openly licensed images

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