福建四平戏,曾几何时分布于福建民间十余个县,时间长达数百年,直到上世纪八十年代初,学术界才基本弄清它的面目。其身世本出自明代“稍变弋阳”的四平腔,对于研究明代南戏弋阳腔系具有重要的学术研究价值。但是,这个发现为时已晚,各地的四平戏已大都消亡。曾经流布于福建境内的闽中四平戏(词明戏)仅剩民间傀儡戏和鼓乐吹班中保留部分剧目折子和曲调而已,闽西南四平戏也于上世纪六十年代宣告消亡,仅于闽东北的屏南县龙潭村、政和县的杨源村等地宗族祭祀中不同程度地保留该剧种的部分遗存。在农村商品经济意识高速发展和外来文化的强烈冲击下,四平戏这一古老的剧种已到了真正的濒危阶段。由于四平戏是唯一的四平腔的声腔剧种实体,是我国地方戏曲剧种中具有重要文化地位的一个腔系的代表剧种,因此,笔者选择其作为具有代表性的濒危剧种来加以考察及研究。 Fujian Siping Opera once distributed in more than ten counties in Fujian, which lasted for hundreds of years. It was not until the early eighties of the last century that the academic community basically understood its face. His life story comes from Siping Cun, which changed slightly from Yiyang in the Ming Dynasty. It has important academic research value for the study of Southern Opera Yiyang Caves in the Ming Dynasty. However, it was too late to find out that Siping Drama had largely disappeared. Once shed in Fujian Province in Fujian Province Siping opera (Ci Ming opera) only folk puppet show and drum music blowing class retains some repertoire and tunes only, Southwest Fujian Siping opera also died in the sixties of last century, only in the northeast of Fujian Of Longtan Village in Pingnan County and Yangyuan Village in Zhenghe County retain some of the relics of the genre in varying degrees. With the rapid development of rural commodity economy and the strong impact of foreign cultures, the ancient drama of Siping opera has come to a real endangered stage. Because Siping Opera is the only Siping chamber acoustical opera entity, it is a representative operas with important cultural status in local operas in China. Therefore, the author chose it as a representative endangered drama to study and study.