王龙彦、刘瑛在《论戏曲革新的形式问题》(载《戏剧景观》八七年第四期)一文中说,我们不但需要内容上的不断出新,更需要形式的发展变化。与内容相比,形式同样重要,而且是至关重要。一、戏曲艺术的历史发展,是以形式来记载的。二、戏曲的定义本身是在解释它的形式特征。戏曲的定义基本上都属于戏曲形式范畴。三、我们所面临的时期,正是处于内容与形 Wang Longyan and Liu Ying said in his article entitled “On the Form of Revolution in Drama” (the fourth issue of “Drama Landscape” in August 1987) that we not only need to keep innovating in content but also need the form of development and change. Form is just as important and content as content. First, the historical development of opera art is recorded in the form. Second, the definition of drama itself is to explain its formal features. The definition of opera basically belongs to the category of opera form. Third, we face the time, it is in content and shape