元人散曲是在民间俗谣俚曲的基础上发展兴盛起来的。它的欣赏者主要是市民。元曲由于受接受对象即市民情趣的影响,就形成了其特有的美学特征。王廷弼、沈卫建的《市民情趣与元人散曲的美学追求》(载《社会科学辑刊》1992年第1期)将这种特性归纳为四个方面。一是以俗为美,俗的曲调、俗的曲词与俗的内容。市民情趣本身就有俗的倾向,这一倾向成为文化有意追求的目标,一时成为元人散曲的本色。二 Yuan Sanqu is flourishing on the basis of folk custom folk songs. Its audience is mainly the public. As a result of being influenced by the accepted object, that is, the public taste, the Yuan Dynasty formed its unique aesthetic characteristics. Wang Tingbi, Shen Weijian’s “Aesthetic Pursuit of Citizens’ Interests and Yuan Songs” (Social Science Series, No. 1, 1992) summarizes this characteristic into four aspects. First, the vulgar is the United States, vulgar melody, vulgar words and vulgar content. Public interest itself has a vulgar tendencies, this tendency has become the intention of the pursuit of cultural goals, and sometimes became the essence of the Sanqu Sanqu. two