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In this article, I examined the transformation process of traditional Yangge, in particular Yangge of northern Shaanxi into New Yangge and Countryside Yangge, regarding <Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art> by Mao Zedong as watershed on the basis of existing research results. In the first stage, traditional Yangge had been transformed into Yangge Dance and Yangge Play. In the second stage, Yang Dance and Yangge Play was transformed into New Yangge and Countryside Yangge. New Yangge combined traditional folk art form with Proletarian revolution or Anti-Japanese consciousness. In this article, I paid special attention to the musical effect of New Yangge, that is, how the repetition of melody which is easy and simple make a large audience join into New Yangge and grow into main agents. In terms of artistic creation, the transformation process of traditional Yangge into New Yangge and Countryside Yangge is that of proletarian masses of people into main agents of creation in the course of renovating their own art forms.

秧歌(Yangge), 新秧歌(New Yangge), 秧歌舞(Yangge Dance), 秧歌劇(Yangge Play), 鄕下秧歌(Countryside Yangge), 魯迅藝術學院(Luxun Academy)