怎样看待传统戏曲的人民性,是直接关涉到我们究竟继承什么样的遗产,和用什么观点、方法去继承这类原则问题的。无产阶级文化不是凭空创造的,它是在“吸收和改造了两千多年来人类思想和文化发展中一切有价值的东西”这个基础上发展而来的。(列宁《论无产阶级文化》)今天我们要创造社会主义的民族的新戏曲,丢掉传统是不可以的,但中国戏曲虽然基本上是人民的创造,可是它又是封建社会的产物, How to treat people’s nature in traditional opera is directly related to what kind of heritage we inherit and what are the views and methods to inherit the issue of such principles. The proletarian culture was not created out of thin air. It developed on the basis of “absorbing and remolding all valuable things in the development of human thought and culture for over two thousand years.” (Lenin On the Culture of the Proletariat) Today we want to create a new socialist drama. It is impossible to discard the tradition. Although Chinese opera is basically a people’s creation, it is a product of the feudal society.