从戏剧的起源看戏曲的改革

古印度、古埃及、古希腊和克里特等地区的戏剧之所以能在文明社会来临之际 ,就伴随着人类自身的成长而诞生 ,并且立刻走向辉煌 ,主要是得力于原始狩猎惊心动魄的生活本身和原始部落民主、平等的自然发展。中国戏曲没有与它们同时出现 ,是因为中国早期以宗法制为基础的社会形态里面 ,一直是在致力于消除这种自原始社会发展而来的冲突精神。因此 ,我们应该在当代的戏曲改革工作中 ,恢复并重建这种既原始而又现代化的精神

Look at the Reform of Chinese Traditional Opera From the Origin of Drama

The cause of the dramas in the Ancient Hindu, Egypt, Greece and Crete had occurred by the growing and civilization of the human being, and become flourishing at once, mainly and directly urged by the primitive hunting live and the spirit of the democracy, equality in the primitive tribal society. The reason of the Chinese drama had not appeared at the same time with them was that the social basis had been eradicated by the early Chinese dictatorial system. Therefore, in the present enterprise of the reform of Chinese traditional opera, we should renew and reconstruct this kind of primitive and modern spirit.