Handkerchief skills are also body techniques originating from a song-and-dance duet popular in Northeast China and developed from Jiqu Opera.
Liu Yunshan, minister of Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, has commented:" the Northeastern wind song-and-dance duet art troupe is the rural worker's happy base camp".
A popular Nei Monggol song-and-dance duet of its strong local characteristics and local flavor deeply loved by the people of this region.