黄梅戏,在旧社会称黄梅调。“今皖上各地乡村中,江以南亦有之,有所谓草台小戏者,所唱皆黄梅调”。它保持着草台风貌长期在乡村演出,农夫农妇,“莫不乐观之”。解放后,一九五二年才由于行政之倡导而改称黄梅戏。三十多年来,这个草台小戏,能够跨进大剧种的行列,决不是偶然的。 黄梅调缓慢地经历了一个由简单到复杂、由低级到高级的发展阶段。它以湖北的“采茶调”为主体,兼收了其他地方的“诸腔小调”,更受到 Huangmei opera, said in the old society Huangmei tune. “Now Anhui all over the country, there are also south of the river, there is the so-called grass-roots dramas, singing are yellow plum tune.” It has maintained a long-term performance in the country’s turf style, peasant farmers, “not optimistic.” After the liberation, in 1952, it was renamed as Huangmei Opera because of its advocacy of administration. For more than three decades, it is no accident that this small stage drama can cross into the genre of drama. Huang Mei tune slowly experienced a from simple to complex, from low to high stage of development. It is Hubei’s “picking tea tune” as the mainstay, both the rest of the “minor”, but also by