[近来有不少读者来信问到有关曲艺的一些问题,现发表这篇文章供参考。)曲艺这个名称从什么时候开始用的,没有可靠的根据。据在解放区搞曲艺工作的同志说,全国解放以前就有了。见于书面是从1949年第一次全国文艺工作者代表大会开始,以后就沿用了。根据不完全的统计,全国有二百多个曲种,少数民族的说唱形式还不在 Recently, many readers have asked us some questions about folk art. We are publishing this article for reference. There is no credible basis for the name Art of Quilts to use from when. According to comrades engaged in folk work in the Jiefang District, there existed before the liberation of the country. See written in 1949 from the first national literary workers Congress began, then used. According to incomplete statistics, there are over 200 species in the country, and ethnic rap forms are not yet