Handkerchief skills are also body techniques originating from a song-and-dance duet popular in Northeast China and developed from Jiqu Opera.
A popular Nei Monggol song-and-dance duet of its strong local characteristics and local flavor deeply loved by the people of this region.
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".