至迟产生于北宋年间的目连戏是中国历史上有据可考的第一个剧目,号称中国戏曲的“戏祖”。宋杂剧目连戏流入中国南方后,被南戏所吸收,产生了南戏目连戏,据日本学者田仲一成近年来考证,在中国南方目连戏的传播过程中,被称为宋元南戏“活化石”的莆仙戏系统起到了极为重要的枢纽作用。南戏目连戏正是随着福建海商的行商路线传入福建,形成了莆仙目连戏与闽南目连戏,进而以莆仙目连戏的形式进入江西,然后向安徽、江苏、浙江西北等中国南方内 The Mulan opera, which was produced at the earliest date in the Northern Song Dynasty, is the first well-documented repertoire in Chinese history, known as the “operatic” of Chinese opera. Song opera repertoire into the South China after being absorbed by the South play, produced a South show even the drama, according to Japanese scholar Tian Zhong Cheng into textual research in recent years, the spread of Mesoprosto in southern China, known as the Song and Yuan South Opera “Living fossils” Puxian play a very important pivotal role in the system. It is with the line of commercial Fujian Fujian maritime routes into the South show, the formation of the Puxian headline drama and Minnan headline drama, and then to Puxian headline drama into Jiangxi, and then to Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang Northwest China southern China