京剧,作为中国古典戏曲最高形式的完成,是与中国社会形式的发展状况相吻合的。这就是说,在作为中国古代社会形态的封建社会终结时,京剧适逢其时地完成了它的建构。在历史发生了根本变化后的现代社会,京剧存在的“精神气候”已丧失,自然也就无力再发展了,而成为古典戏曲的终结形式。 The completion of Beijing Opera, the highest form of classical Chinese opera, is in line with the development of the Chinese social form. That is to say, at the end of the feudal society as the ancient Chinese social form, Peking Opera completed its construction at a proper time. In the modern society where the history has undergone fundamental changes, the “spiritual climate” of Peking Opera has been lost and naturally no longer capable of further development, and has become the final form of classical opera.