元明南曲“四大声腔”之说由来已久,早在祝允明(?-1526)《猥谈》中即有余姚、海盐、弋阳、昆山四大声腔之名目,近人叶德均又倡“五大声腔”之说,后来不同于“四大声腔”或“五大声腔”的说法更是不胜枚举。当然,南曲声腔之一的弋阳腔曾一度流传最广、影响最大,这也是人们普遍承认的事实。然而,时至嘉、隆之际,后起的昆山腔因为得到魏良辅等戏曲音乐 Yuan Ming Nan Qu “Four Voices ” has a long history, as early as wish Yu Ming (? -1526) “leong Tan” Yuyao, Haiyan, Yiyang, Kunshan four sound cavity of the name, Advocacy “five voices ”, then different from the “four voices” or “five voices ” argument is too numerous to mention. Of course, the Yiyang chamber, one of the southern curved sound cavities, was once the most widely circulated and the most influential. It is also a fact generally accepted. However, when Jia, Long, Kunshan cavity later got Wei Lian Fu and other opera music