悠久的中国文化进入近代以来,面临着一个如何适应骤然而迅速变化的人民生活的新环境问题。这个问题提到日程上来是从鸦片战争时开始的,一直延续到今天。它是在近一个世纪中不断发展而逐渐向完成的目标走去的。因为整个时代在迅速前进,而中国文化是在这历史动态中追赶上去的,要等赶上整个世界的步伐了,这个任务才能算完成。中国文化发展的这个特殊阶段的任务,今天我们称之为现代化。戏曲是中国文化中的一部分。因为它在整个文化中是与广大人民群众的生活有特殊密切关系的,它的现代化也就紧密联系着广大人民生活发展的过程。在某种意义上说,是和整个人民生活的现代化步伐接近同步前进的。当然,它应当而且必然是走在广大人民 Long since the Chinese culture entered the modern era, it has faced a new environmental issue of how to adapt itself to the sudden and rapidly changing life of its people. This issue mentions that the agenda came from the time of the Opium War and has lasted to this day. It has evolved over the past century and gradually moved toward its goal of completion. Because the entire era is advancing rapidly and Chinese culture is catching up with this historical trend, we must wait for the pace of the entire world to catch up and this task can be completed. The task of this special stage of Chinese cultural development is what we call modernization today. Opera is part of Chinese culture. Because it has a special and close relationship with the life of the broad masses of the people in the entire culture, its modernization is closely linked with the process of the general people’s life. In a certain sense, it is in close synch with the modernization of the life of the entire people. Of course, it should and must go along with the broad masses of people