作为艺术的中国舞剧肇始于二十世纪三十年代,吴晓邦的三幕舞剧《罂粟花》乃发轫之作。至新中国成立之时,可称之为舞剧者,八部而已。上个世纪五十年代初,欧阳予倩、戴爱莲等创作的《和平鸽》,彪炳了新中国首部舞剧在民族、传统与西方观念、方法的整合创新中的新生,北京舞蹈学校的建立也构建了之后中国舞剧的摧枯拉朽之势。继而,五十年代末的舞剧《宝莲灯》,语汇融中国民间舞、戏曲舞蹈于一炉, As an art Chinese ballet began in the 1930s, Wu Xiaobang’s three-act ballet “Poppy Flower” is made for the hair. When the founding of new China, can be called a dancer, eight only. The “Peace Dove” created by Ouyang Yuqian and Dai Ailian in the early 1950s played a new role in the integration and innovation of the first Chinese ballet in the ethnic, traditional and western concepts and methods. The establishment of the Beijing Dance School was also established After the drastic decay of Chinese ballet potential. In the end, the ballet “Lotus Lantern” at the end of the fifties melted Chinese folk dance, drama dance in a furnace,