"two-people rotation") is a genre of musical theater and folk dance from Northeast China, usually involving two performers (one male and one female).
Popular routines include "Fowling", "Selling Thread", "Reward for Detective Dee's Deeds", "Ancient City", "Blue Bridge Tryst", "Romance of the West Chamber", "At Ba Bridge", "Shuangsuo Mountain", "Huarong Pass", "Palace", "Baohao", "Panda", "Chanyu Temple", and "Spring Trip of Miss Yang the Eighth."
The script is written in language that is easy to understand by every day people, humorous, rich in local lifestyle, flavorful, and includes vocal music based on the northeastern folk songs.
After the establishment of the art troupe, it reorganized and regulated the content of the errenzhuan, and many areas became popular, in a type called errendou.
Some of the better-known works include "Horse Before Water", "Roast Duck", "Eight Arches of Pigs", "Drunken Sky", "Monkey Wukong three-tone Banana Leaf Fan", "Blessing of Love Downhill", "Western View Painting", "Two Mothers", "Visit the sick", "Bao Gong Breaks the Empress Dowager", and "Blue Bridge.
At the First National Folk Music and Dance Congress (held in Beijing in April 1953), errenzhuan was officially recognized in Chinese literary and art circles as the "signboard of the Northeast delegation".
Zhao Benshan, a well-known comedian and performer in China, started a movement called Green Errenzhuan, which avoids controversial language and sexual innuendo.