明清两代,江南一带的宗族非常重视祭祀,祭祀中的演剧活动相当普遍。对于这一文化现象,研究最为全面、深入的是日本知名学者田仲一成先生。在《中国戏剧史》和《明清的戏曲——江南宗族社会的表象》等专著中,田仲先生曾通过考察明清宗族演剧的体系、类型、目的和作用等,重点探讨了江南宗族如何利用演剧形成祭祀组 Clans in the Ming and Qing dynasties and in the south of Yangtze River attached great importance to sacrificial sacrifices, and the activities of acting in sacrificial rituals were quite common. For this cultural phenomenon, the most comprehensive and in-depth study is the famous Japanese scholar Mr. Tian Zhongcheng. In the monographs of “the history of Chinese drama” and “the drama of the Ming and Qing Dynasties - the appearance of the southern clan society”, Mr. Tian Zhong examined the system, types, purposes and functions of the clan drama in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Use drama to form sacrificial group